蒙 → 小畜
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 9: Small Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
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 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 5
六五 童蒙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Childlike folly brings good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天地配享，六位光明。陰陽順序，以成和平。
Heaven and earth share the offering; the six positions shine bright. Yin and yang follow their order, and harmony and peace are achieved.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain opens onto cosmic harmony. Heaven and earth share offerings at the altar, the six positions radiate light, yin and yang follow their proper sequence, and peace prevails. The 'six positions' echo the I-Ching's own structure — the six lines of a hexagram, each finding its correct place. When every element occupies its rightful station, order emerges without coercion. From Youthful Folly to Small Taming, the transformation traces how raw potential is gently cultivated: wind moves across heaven, refining rather than forcing. The spring's unformed energy, once guided into proper channels, produces not dramatic power but the quiet luminosity of a well-ordered world.
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