Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

攫飯把肉,以就口食。所往必得,無有虛乏。

Snatching rice, grasping meat; bringing it straight to the mouth to eat. Wherever one goes, one surely obtains; there is never want or lack.

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

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