中孚

Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

中孚
Inner Truth
Wind / Lake
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

機父不賢,朝多讒臣。君失其政,保家久貧。

The father of schemes lacks virtue; the court is full of slanderers. The lord loses his governance; the house is kept in lasting poverty.

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

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