Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 17: Following

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

開郭緒業,王迹所起。姬德七百,報以八子。

Opening the city walls and founding the enterprise, where the royal footsteps began. The Ji clan's virtue lasted seven hundred years, rewarded with eight sons.

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

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