Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 19: Approach

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

鑿井求玉,非卞氏寶。名困身辱,勞無所得。

Digging a well to seek jade; it is not the treasure of Bian. Reputation ruined, body disgraced; labor yields nothing.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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