蒙 → 賁
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Line 1
初六 發蒙。利用刑人。用說桎梏。以往吝。
Six at the beginning means: To make a fool develop It furthers one to apply discipline. The fetters should be removed. To go on in this way bring humiliation.
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 3
六三 勿用取女。見金夫。不有躬。无攸利。
Six in the third place means: Take not a maiden who, when she sees a man of bronze, Loses possession of herself. Nothing furthers.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
招禍致凶，來弊我邦。病在手足，不得安息。
Inviting disaster, bringing calamity; harming our domain. The affliction is in the limbs; one finds no rest.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain attracts calamity rather than grace. Misfortune is invited, disaster arrives, afflicting the entire state. Illness strikes the limbs; rest becomes impossible. Where Grace (Bi) promises beauty and adornment — fire glowing beneath the mountain — this verse delivers its shadow: the ornamental surface conceals systemic disease. From Youthful Folly to Grace, the transformation warns that superficial refinement without inner health produces only decorated suffering. The mountain adorned by fire looks splendid from a distance, but this body's hands and feet are racked with pain. Beauty that masks decay is worse than plain ugliness, because it prevents the sufferer from seeking the cure.
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