Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

南山昊天,刺政閔身。疾悲無辜,背憎為仇。

The southern mountain, the vast sky; government censured, the body grieved. Sorrow for the guiltless; those one trusted turn to enemies.

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

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