Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 6: Conflict

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater Water

Yilin Verse

老楊日衰,條多枯枝。爵級不進。遂下摧隤。

The old poplar daily withers; its branches grow many dead twigs. Rank and office do not advance; tumbling downward into ruin.

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

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