豐 → 鼎
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).
Line 1
初九 遇其配主。雖旬无咎。往有尚。
Nine at the beginning means: When a man meets his destined ruler, They can be together ten days, And it is not a mistake. Going meets with recognition.
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 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
讒言亂國，覆是為非。伯奇乖難，恭子憂哀。
Slander disrupts the state, overturning right to make it wrong. Bo Qi met with calamity; the dutiful son grieves in sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, and slander overturns the state. Malicious words disrupt the realm, inverting right and wrong. Boqi suffers unjust exile; the filial son grieves in sorrow. Boqi was the son of Yin Jifu, a great minister of King Xuan of Zhou. His stepmother framed him by placing a venomous insect on her collar; when the dutiful Boqi reached to brush it away, his father saw an apparent assault and banished him. Boqi composed the guqin lament 'Treading on Frost' in the wilderness. From Abundance to the Cauldron, fire above wind refines and transforms: the Cauldron represents proper order and nourishment from above, yet slander poisons the vessel. When the cauldron's contents are contaminated by lies, the instrument of civilization becomes the instrument of injustice.
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