蒙 → 咸
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
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.
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.
Line 6
上九 擊蒙。不利為寇。利禦寇。
Nine at the top means: In punishing folly It does not further one To commit transgressions. The only thing that furthers Is to prevent transgressions.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
憂禍解除，喜至慶來。坐立歡門，與樂為鄰。
Worry and misfortune are dispelled; joy arrives, celebration comes. Sitting and standing at the gate of gladness; dwelling as neighbors with delight.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain washes grief away as joy arrives. Worry and calamity dissolve; celebration comes bearing blessings. One sits and stands at the gate of happiness, dwelling as a neighbor of delight. The verse is a portrait of relief so complete it becomes its own landscape — joy is not just felt but inhabited, like moving into a house next door to bliss. From Youthful Folly to Influence, the transformation traces how openness produces resonance. The lake rests upon the mountain, and the gentleman empties himself to receive others. The naif who stops clinging to anxiety finds that joy was always adjacent, waiting for the mind to unclasp. Influence begins with receptivity, not effort.
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