Hexagram 19 臨 changing to hexagram 35 晉

lín

→

jìn

Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 2, 4, 6.

What to read

Four changing lines: read the two unchanged lines of the resulting hexagram; the lower one is the main one. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)

Hexagram 35 晉, line 3

眾允，悔亡。

The third line, divided, shows its subject trusted by all (around him). All occasion for repentance will disappear.

The fifth line, divided, shows how all occasion for repentance disappears (from its subject). (But) let him not concern himself about whether he shall fail or succeed. To advance will be fortunate, and in every way advantageous.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 19 臨 — judgment

元亨。利貞。至于八月有凶。

Lin (indicates that under the conditions supposed in it) there will be great progress and success, while it will be advantageous to be firmly correct. In the eighth month there will be evil.

Hexagram 35 晉 — judgment

康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接。

In Zin we see a prince who secures the tranquillity (of the people) presented on that account with numerous horses (by the king), and three times in a day received at interviews.

The changing lines of hexagram 19

Line	Chinese	Legge
1	咸臨，貞吉。	The first line, undivided, shows its subject advancing in company (with the subject of the second line). Through his firm correctness there will be good fortune.
2	咸臨，吉无不利。	The second line, undivided, shows its subject advancing in company (with the subject of the first line). There will be good fortune; (advancing) will be in every way advantageous.
4	至臨，无咎。	The fourth line, divided, shows one advancing in the highest mode. There will be no error.
6	敦臨，吉无咎。	The sixth line, divided, shows the advance of honesty and generosity. There will be good fortune, and no error.

English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.

Data: English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0); Chinese Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.