蒙 → 晉
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
有莘季女，為夏妃后。貴夫壽子，母字四海。
The youngest daughter of Youshen becomes queen consort of Xia. A noble husband, long-lived sons; the mother’s name encompasses the four seas.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain nurtures a maiden destined for greatness. The youngest daughter of the Youxin clan became consort to a lord of Xia — some traditions identify her as the mother who bore Yu the Great's heirs, others link her to King Tang's consort who brought Yi Yin as part of her dowry. She secures a noble husband and long-lived sons; the maternal title extends to all within the four seas. From Youthful Folly to Progress, the transformation traces how hidden merit advances into the light. Fire rises above the earth, illuminating virtue that was formerly obscure. The maiden from a minor clan, once naive and provincial, becomes the mother of an empire — her worth recognized as naturally as dawn breaks over the horizon.
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