Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 8: Holding Together

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Holding Together
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

豕生魚魴,鼠舞庭堂。奸佞施毒,上下昏荒,君失其國。

Pigs give birth to bream; rats dance in the courtyard. Treachery and flattery spread their poison; above and below grow dim and reckless. The lord loses his state.

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

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