井 → 升
Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Line 5
九五 井冽。寒泉食。
Nine in the fifth place means: In the well there is a clear, cold spring From which one can drink.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
營城洛邑，周公所作。世逮三十，年歷七百。福佑封實，堅固不落。
Building the walled city of Luoyi, the work of the Duke of Zhou. The dynasty endured for thirty generations, its years spanning seven hundred. Blessings and protection filled its domain, solid and unyielding to the end.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water drawn up through wood, the well endures across generations — and here the Duke of Zhou builds the eastern capital at Luoyi, anchoring the Zhou dynasty for seven hundred years across thirty generations. The construction of Luoyi (modern Luoyang) was the Duke of Zhou's crowning administrative achievement: a new capital at the center of the realm to govern the east. The verse traces how a single act of foundation radiates forward through centuries. From The Well to Pushing Upward, wood grows within the earth, rising steadily. The well's patient foundation meets Sheng's gradual ascent: what is built properly at the root — like Luoyi — pushes upward through time, its blessings compounding as each generation inherits a sound structure.
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