蒙 → 噬嗑
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 21: Biting Through
䷃
蒙
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
→
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWater → ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
畫龍頭頸，文章不成。甘言善語，說辭無名。
Painting the dragon’s head and neck; the design is never completed. Sweet words and fine speech; eloquence without substance.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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