蒙 → 豐
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 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 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 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
四雄並處，人民愁苦。擁兵西東，不得安所。
Four warlords dwell together; the people grieve and suffer. Mustering armies east and west; none find a place of peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain is drowned out by the clash of four rival warlords. Four strongmen occupy the same ground, and the people suffer in misery. Armies march east and west in endless campaigns; no one finds a place to rest. The number four suggests a realm fractured into competing quarters, each powerful enough to terrorize but none strong enough to unify. From Youthful Folly to Abundance, the irony is bitter. Thunder and lightning together should produce the fullness of a just verdict — abundance as the culmination of clarity and power. But here, four thunders roar at once and cancel each other out, producing only chaos. Abundance squandered on factional war is indistinguishable from devastation.
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