豐 → 隨
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 17: Following
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Line 3
九三 豐其沛。日中見沬。折其右肱。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: The underbrush is of such abundance That the small stars can be seen at noon. He breaks his right arm. No blame.
Line 5
六五 來章。有慶譽吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Lines are coming, Blessing and fame draw near. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
開郭緒業，王迹所起。姬德七百，報以八子。
Opening the city walls and founding the enterprise, where the royal footsteps began. The Ji clan's virtue lasted seven hundred years, rewarded with eight sons.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire join in Abundance, and the verse celebrates the founding of the Zhou dynasty. 'Opening the outer wall and continuing the enterprise' refers to the ancestral work begun by Hou Ji and the Duke of Zhou's generation. 'The virtue of the Ji clan lasted seven hundred years' — the Zhou dynasty endured approximately seven centuries, the longest in Chinese history. 'Rewarded with eight sons' likely refers to the eight sons of King Wen who established the dynasty's collateral branches. From Abundance to Following, thunder rests within the lake: the fiery brilliance of dynastic founding settles into the gentle rhythm of succession, where each generation follows the path laid by its predecessors, sustaining the enterprise through loyalty rather than force.
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