Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

安息康居,異國穹廬。非吾習俗,使我心憂。

Anxi, Kangju—foreign lands of domed tents. These are not my customs; they fill my heart with sorrow.

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

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