蒙 → 否
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
Line 2
九二 包蒙吉。納婦吉。子克家。
Nine in the second place means: To bear with fools in kindliness brings good fortune. To know how to take women Brings good fortune. The son is capable of taking charge of the household.
Line 4
六四 困蒙。吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Entangled folly bring humiliation.
Line 5
六五 童蒙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Childlike folly brings good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
操耜鄉畝，折貨稷黍。飲食充口，安利無咎。
Taking plow to face the furrows; harvesting millet and grain. Food and drink fill the mouth; at peace and profitable, without fault.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain settles into the steady rhythm of the plow. Hands grip the plow handle, facing the furrows, harvesting millet and grain. Food fills the mouth, comfort is found, and no misfortune follows. The verse is a small hymn to agrarian contentment — no ambition beyond the season's crop, no sorrow beyond the weather. From Youthful Folly to Standstill, the pairing seems paradoxical: Standstill means heaven and earth do not communicate, yet here is peaceful sufficiency. The resolution lies in the peasant's self-reliance: when the great systems seize up, the farmer who works the soil still eats. In times of political stagnation, the humble plow offers its own quiet salvation.
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