Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

他山之儲,與璆為仇。來攻吾城,傷我肌膚。邦家搔憂。

Stores from foreign mountains; they come as foes bearing jade. They attack our city walls; they wound our flesh. The realm is plunged into grief.

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

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