兌 → 剝
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 和兌吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Contented joyousness. Good fortune.
Line 2
九二 孚兌吉。悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Sincere joyousness. Good fortune. Remorse disappears.
Line 3
六三 來兌凶。
Six in the third place means: Coming joyousness. Misfortune.
Line 4
九四 商兌未寧。介疾有喜。
Nine in the fourth place means: Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy.
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
乘輿八百，以明文德。踐土葵丘，齊晉受福。
Eight hundred chariots mounted, displaying civil virtue clearly. At Jiantu and Kuiqiu, Qi and Jin receive blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes meet the mountain resting on earth — Splitting Apart. Eight hundred chariots assemble to illuminate civil virtue. At Jiantu and Kuiqiu, the states of Qi and Jin receive their blessings. Jiantu was the site of Duke Wen of Jin's covenant in 632 BC after the Battle of Chengpu; Kuiqiu was Duke Huan of Qi's famous 651 BC assembly where he received the Zhou king's recognition of hegemony. Both were moments when military power was converted into legitimate authority through ritual. From The Joyous to Splitting Apart, the verse reads against the hexagram's decay: even as structures erode, the memory of great assemblies preserves civilizational order.
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