Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Increase
Wind / Thunder
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

飲酒醉酣,跳起爭鬭。手足紛挐,伯傷仲僵,東家治喪。

Drinking wine in drunken abandon, they leap up to brawl. Hands and feet flail in tangled fury; the eldest is wounded, the second collapses. The eastern household prepares for mourning.

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

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