鼎 → 豫
Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
九二 鼎有實。我仇有疾。不我能即。吉。
Nine in the second place means: There is food in the ting. My comrades are envious, But they cannot harm me. Good fortune.
Line 3
九三 鼎耳革。其行塞。雉膏不食。方雨虧悔。終吉。
Nine in the third place means: The handle of the ting is altered. One is impeded in his way of life. The fat of the pheasant is not eaten. Once rain falls, remorse is spent. Good fortune comes in the end.
Line 6
上九 鼎玉鉉。大吉。无不利。
Nine at the top means: The ting has rings of jade. Great good fortune. Nothing that would not act to further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
消鋒鑄刃，縱牛牧馬。甲兵解散，夫婦相保。
Melting the spear points, forging the blades anew; releasing the oxen, pasturing the horses. Armor and weapons are laid aside; husband and wife keep each other safe.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire over wind fills the cauldron; thunder emerges from the earth in joyous Enthusiasm. Spearheads are melted down and reforged into plowshares, oxen are released and horses set to pasture. Armor and weapons scatter as husband and wife are reunited in safety. This is the classical Chinese image of postwar demobilization — swords beaten into farming tools, armies disbanded, domestic life restored. The cauldron that once cast bronze weapons now feeds families. From The Cauldron to Enthusiasm, the transformation captures the collective relief when war ends and celebration begins. Thunder bursting from the earth mirrors the eruption of joy; the cauldron's fire, no longer martial, becomes the hearth fire of a reunited household.
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