豐 → 大畜
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 豐其蔀。日中見斗。往得疑疾。有孚發若。吉。
Six in the second place means: The curtain is of such fullness That the polestars can be seen at noon. Through going one meets with mistrust and hate. If one rouses him through truth, Good fortune comes.
Line 4
九四 豐其蔀。日中見斗。遇其夷主。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: The curtain is of such fullness That the polestars can be seen at noon. He meets his ruler, who is of like kind. Good fortune.
Line 6
上六 豐其屋。蔀其家。闚其戶。闃其无人。三歲不覿。凶。
Six at the top means: His house is in a state of abundance. He screens off his family. He peers through the gate And no longer perceives anyone. For three years he sees nothing. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鬼舞國社，歲樂民喜。臣忠於君，子孝於父。
Spirits dance at the village shrine; the year is joyful, the people glad. Ministers loyal to the sovereign; sons filial to their fathers.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire blaze in Abundance, and the verse celebrates communal harmony. Spirits dance at the state altar; the year brings joy and the people rejoice. Ministers are loyal to their lord; sons are filial to their fathers. The 'ghost dance at the state altar' (鬼舞國社) suggests ancestral spirits honored through proper ritual, their satisfaction manifesting as social prosperity. Every bond — sovereign-minister, father-son — holds firm in its proper place. From Abundance to Great Taming, heaven stored within the mountain: the festive abundance of shared joy is gathered and preserved as cultural memory. Great Taming's counsel to 'study the words and deeds of the ancients' transforms celebration into lasting moral inheritance.
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