鼎 → 剝
Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷱
鼎
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind → MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
切膚近火，虎絕我鬚。小人橫暴，君復何之？
Scorching the skin near the fire; the tiger tears away my whiskers. Petty men rage with violence; where, then, shall the lord turn?
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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