Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

The Well
Water / Wind
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

跛躄難步,遲不及舍。露宿澤陂,亡其襦袴。

Lame and crippled, struggling to walk; too slow to reach the inn. Sleeping in the open by the marsh bank, he loses his jacket and trousers.

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

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