蠱 → 困
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 47: Oppression
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 3
九三 幹父之蠱。小有悔。无大咎。
Nine in the third place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. There will be a little remorse. No great blame.
Line 4
六四 裕父之蠱。往見吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
Line 5
六五 幹父之蠱。用譽。
Six in the fifth place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. One meets with praise.
Line 6
上九 不事王侯。高尚其事。
Nine at the top means: He does not serve kings and princes, Sets himself higher goals.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
陳媯敬仲，兆興齊姜；乃適營丘，八世大昌。
An acorn falls to earth; in a hundred years, a forest. The founding ancestor had no title — the descendants are enfeoffed as lords.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain conceals a dynastic seed, and the transformation descends into the lake drained of water — the bitter Oppression of Kun. The original verse reads: 'Chen Gui Jingzhong received an omen of flourishing through the Jiang rulers of Qi. He went to settle at Yingqiu, and after eight generations his line achieved great prosperity.' Chen Jingzhong (Chen Wan) was a minister who fled the state of Chen to Qi around 672 BC. His descendants, the Tian clan, gradually accumulated power until they replaced the ruling Jiang family in 386 BC. From Work on the Decayed to Oppression, the paradox is striking: the seed planted during one dynasty's decay bears fruit only through generations of constraint. Oppression's drained lake conceals the patient root that will eventually drink deep.
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