困 → 解
Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Line 5
九五 劓刖。困于赤紱。乃徐有說。利用祭祀。
Nine in the fifth place means: His nose and feet are cut off. Oppression at the hands of the man with the purple knee bands. Joy comes softly. It furthers one to make offerings and libations.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
陰淫寒疾，水離其室。舟楫大作，傷害黍稷。民飢於食，不无病厄。
Yin excess brings cold and plague; the waters leave their course. Boats and rafts are hastily built, yet the crops are ruined. The people starve for food; sickness and hardship are inescapable.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A lake without water, yet excessive yin brings cold and illness. Water breaks free from its channels, boats and oars multiply as floods spread, and the grain harvest is ruined. The people starve; disease and hardship compound. The verse is a catalogue of flood disaster: cosmic imbalance (excess yin) triggers natural catastrophe, which cascades into famine and plague. The boats multiplying is grimly paradoxical: water that should nourish instead requires vessels of emergency rescue. From Oppression to Deliverance, thunder and rain arrive together, and the gentleman pardons transgressions and forgives faults. Deliverance should release the tension, but the verse shows that release without structure, water freed from its channels, becomes destruction rather than relief.
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