Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 48: The Well

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

山水暴怒,壞梁折柱。稽難行旅,留連愁苦。

The suspension bridge's rope snaps; rapids churn in the valley below. The path ahead is severed — the wind sounds like weeping.

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

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