Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 49: Revolution

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Revolution
Lake / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

愆淫旱疾,傷害稼穡。喪制病來,農人無食。

Excessive rain and drought and disease; they harm the planting and harvesting. Mourning rites, illness arrives; the farmer has nothing to eat.

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

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