蒙 → 震
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).
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 4
六四 困蒙。吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Entangled folly bring humiliation.
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
夏姬親附，心聽悅喜。利以搏取，無言不許。
Lady Xia Ji attaches herself willingly; her heart listens and delights. Favorable for seizing and taking; no word is refused.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain encounters an irresistible allure. Lady Xia — Xia Ji of the Spring and Autumn period — drew men to her with fatal magnetism. She intimately attached herself, her heart listening and delighting. Whatever she wished to seize, she obtained; no request was refused. Xia Ji was famed for her devastating beauty: she ruined the state of Chen, caused the death of multiple lovers, and her allure drove the Chu minister Wu Chen to abandon his post and elope with her. From Youthful Folly to The Arousing, doubled thunder shakes the ground. The naif is thunderstruck by desire so powerful it overrides all judgment. The arousal is genuine — but what is shaken loose cannot easily be gathered back.
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