Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 47: Oppression

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater Water

Yilin Verse

氓伯以婚,抱布自媒。棄禮急情,卒罹悔憂。

The simple man comes to marry, carrying cloth as his own matchmaker. Abandoning ritual, rushing with desire; in the end he suffers regret and sorrow.

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

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