Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 31: Influence

The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Influence
Lake / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

褒寵洒尤,敗政傾家。覆我宗國,秦滅周室。

Lavishing favor, bestowing indulgence; ruining governance, overturning the house. Our ancestral state is destroyed; Qin annihilates the house of Zhou.

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

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