豐 → 家人
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
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 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.
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
天山紫芝，雍梁朱草。長生和氣，王以為寶。公尸侑食，福祿來處。
Purple zhi on heaven's mountain, vermillion grass on Yong and Liang. Long life and harmonious spirit; the king treasures them. The ritual host receives offerings; blessings and bounty arrive.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, and the verse conjures an auspicious landscape. Purple lingzhi grows on celestial mountains; vermilion grass flourishes at Yong and Liang. Long life and harmonious energy pervade, and the king treasures them. The ancestral representative (公尸) is served at the feast; blessings and emoluments arrive. Lingzhi and vermilion grass are classical portents of sage governance — they appear only when virtue saturates the land. The ancestral feast completes the picture: spiritual and material abundance united in ritual. From Abundance to the Family, wind issues from fire: the auspicious omens of the realm distill into the warmth of domestic order, where words have substance and conduct has constancy.
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