蒙 → 艮
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
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
南山昊天，刺政閔身。疾悲無辜，背憎為仇。
The southern mountain, the vast sky; government censured, the body grieved. Sorrow for the guiltless; those one trusted turn to enemies.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain cries out against injustice under a towering sky. 'South Mountain' and 'Great Heaven' invoke the Shijing ode 'Jie Nan Shan,' a fierce critique of King You of Zhou's misgovernance by the minister Jifu. The poem rebukes unjust rule, grieves for the innocent, and laments that those who should be friends have turned to enmity. From Youthful Folly to Keeping Still, doubled mountains stand immovable. The protest rises but meets a wall of stone: the government does not listen, and the aggrieved can do nothing but cry to the vast, indifferent sky. Stillness here is not peace but paralysis — the mountain that refuses to move is also the mountain that refuses to hear.
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