Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

五穀不熟,民苦困急。亟之南國,嘉樂有得。

The five grains do not ripen; the people suffer hardship and want. Hasten to the southern land; there, joy and gain are found.

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

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