蠱 → 賁
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).
Line 1
初六 幹父之蠱。有子。考无咎。厲終吉。
Six in the beginning means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. If there is a son, No blame rests upon the departed father. Danger. In the end good fortune.
Line 2
九二 幹母之蠱。不可貞。
Nine in the second place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother. One must not be too persevering.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
轉作驪山，大失人心；劉季發怒，禽滅子嬰。
Conscripting labor at Li Mountain, he utterly lost the people hearts. Liu Ji rose in fury, captured and destroyed Ziying.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain builds a tyrant's tomb, and the transformation settles as fire glowing beneath the mountain — the adornment of Grace. Conscript labor at Lishan lost the hearts of the people entirely. Liu Ji erupted in fury, captured and extinguished Ziying. Lishan (Mount Li) was where the First Emperor of Qin built his colossal mausoleum using forced labor, generating the popular resentment that fueled rebellion. Liu Ji is Liu Bang's original name; Ziying was the last Qin king who surrendered to him. From Work on the Decayed to Grace, the irony cuts deep: the mountain's fire illuminates beauty, yet the Qin regime's monumental adornment of Lishan was itself the decay that brought its downfall. Ornament without substance becomes its own grave.
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