賁 → 豐
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
Line 4
六四 賁如皤如。白馬翰如。匪寇婚媾。
Six in the fourth place means: Grace or simplicity? A white horse comes as if on wings. He is not a robber, He will woo at the right time.
Line 6
上九 白賁。无咎。
Nine at the top means: Simple grace. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
安仁尚德，東鄰慕義，來安吾國。
Settled in benevolence, esteeming virtue; the eastern neighbor admires righteousness and comes to bring peace to our land.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain radiates virtue outward. Practicing benevolence and esteeming virtue, the eastern neighbor admires this righteousness and comes to settle in the kingdom. No armies march; no borders are enforced. The attraction is purely moral — the neighbor sees genuine virtue and voluntarily relocates. This embodies the Confucian ideal of 'transformative virtue' (德化): civilization spreading through example rather than conquest. From Grace to Abundance, fire beneath the mountain rises to thunder and lightning together. Abundance combines illumination with energetic action — the ruler at midday, the kingdom at its zenith. The verse shows how Abundance is properly achieved: not through expansion by force but through the magnetic pull of authentic virtue that draws others willingly.
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