比 → 漸
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 53: Development
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷴
漸
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → WindThe Deep → The Gentle
Lower TrigramEarth → MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
南國少子，方略美好。求我長女，薄賤不與。反得醜惡，後乃大悔。
The young man of the southern land, handsome and of fine bearing. He seeks my eldest daughter; she is scorned and refused. Instead he gains one ugly and base; later comes great regret.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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