Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep

Yilin Verse

封豕溝瀆,灌潰國邑。火宿口中,民多疾病。

The great boar breaches the ditch; floods overwhelm the city. Fire lodges in its maw; the people suffer plague and sickness.

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

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