蒙 → 遯
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 33: Retreat
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
至德之君，仁政且溫。伊呂股肱，國富民安。
A lord of utmost virtue; his benevolent government is also warm. Yi Yin and Lü Shang as his arms and legs; the state is rich, the people at ease.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain flows under the governance of a perfectly virtuous lord. This ruler of supreme virtue governs with benevolence and warmth. Yi Yin and Lu Shang serve as his arms and legs — the sage ministers who respectively founded the Shang and Zhou dynasties now stand as archetypes of loyal counsel. The state grows rich, the people secure. From Youthful Folly to Retreat, the pairing seems paradoxical: why would ideal governance lead to withdrawal? Because the wise ruler, having established perfect order, knows when to step back. Heaven above the mountain distances itself from pettiness; the gentleman retreats from lesser influences not in weakness but from strength. True authority withdraws so that virtue can govern in its place.
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