鼎 → 咸
Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 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 5
六五 鼎黃耳金鉉。利貞。
Six in the fifth place means: The ting has yellow handles, golden carrying rings. Perseverance furthers.
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
褒寵洒尤，敗政傾家。覆我宗國，秦滅周室。
Lavishing favor, bestowing indulgence; ruining governance, overturning the house. Our ancestral state is destroyed; Qin annihilates the house of Zhou.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire over wind fills the cauldron; the lake rests atop the mountain in Influence. Indulgent favor and lavish grace corrupt governance and topple the household. 'Our ancestral state overturned — Qin extinguished the house of Zhou.' The verse names the pattern directly: Bao Si's pampering by King You led to the beacon-fire debacle and the fall of Western Zhou. But the final clause leaps centuries forward to Qin's annexation of the remnant Zhou domain in 256 BC. Two destructions bookend the dynasty: ruinous feminine influence opens the wound, and a ruthless successor state finishes the kill. From The Cauldron to Influence, the transformation warns that receptivity without discernment is fatal. The lake atop the mountain receives everything — including poison.
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