Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 48: The Well

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

桀跖並處,民困愁苦。行旅遲遲,留連齊魯。

Heavy taxes press the shoulders until bones nearly break. Checkpoints layer upon layer — the road is blocked. The farmer abandons his hoe and flees to the mountains — but the tiger's roar in the mountains terrifies the heart too.

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

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