Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind Wind
Lower TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

南國少子,材略美好。求我長女,賤薄不與。反得醜惡,後乃天悔。

The young son of the southern state, with fine talent and good looks, sought my eldest daughter. Deeming him base, we refused. Instead gaining one unworthy; later, heaven's regret.

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

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