晉 → 豐
Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).
Line 1
初六 晉如摧如。貞吉。罔孚。裕无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Progressing, but turned back. Perseverance brings good fortune. If one meets with no confidence, one should remain calm. No mistake.
Line 3
六三 眾允悔亡。
Six in the third place means: All are in accord. Remorse disappears.
Line 6
上九 晉其角。維用伐邑。厲吉无咎。貞吝。
Nine at the top means: Making progress with the horns is permissible Only for the purpose of punishing one's own city. To be conscious of danger brings good fortune. No blame. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
羸豕躑躅，虎入都邑。遮遏左右，國門勑至。
The lean boar stamps and paces; the tiger enters the capital. It blocks the way left and right; an urgent decree reaches the city gate.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire rises above the earth, but a scrawny pig stamps its hooves in agitation, and a tiger enters the capital. Roads are blocked on all sides, and an urgent edict arrives at the city gates. The 'lean pig stamping' (lei shi zhizhu) echoes the I-Ching's own hexagram 43 line imagery, suggesting pent-up frustration before a breakthrough — but here the breakthrough is violent. The tiger in the city is among the most alarming images in Chinese omen literature: a wild predator breaching civilized space signals total collapse of order. From Progress to Abundance, the transformation amplifies the crisis to its peak. Thunder and lightning strike simultaneously — the moment of maximum power and maximum danger. Abundance without governance becomes the tiger loose in the streets.
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