屯 → 豐

Commentary

Clouds and thunder transform into thunder and fire together: initial difficulty erupts into the overwhelming brilliance of Abundance. Yellow birds cry mournfully, grieving as the stars vanish from sight. A small bird is harried by raptors, and the hawk terrifies with sudden strikes. This echoes the Shijing ode 'Huang Niao' (Small Elegantiae), where the yellow bird, an exile in a hostile land, laments: 'Yellow birds, do not gather in my mulberry.' The small bird represents the displaced person, and the raptors are the hostile powers that surround him. From Difficulty at the Beginning to Abundance, thunder and lightning fill the sky, but the verse shows that not all abundance is benign. When power concentrates without justice, its dazzling energy merely illuminates the predator's hunt. The yellow bird's grief is the sound of Feng's excess crushing the vulnerable.