豐 → 歸妹
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
臣尊主卑，擁力日衰。侵奪无光，三家逐公。
The minister exalted, the lord debased; power seized, light daily dimmed. Encroaching and seizing without radiance; three great houses drive out the duke.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, and the political order inverts. Ministers are exalted while the lord is debased; power concentrates as authority wanes. Light is extinguished as usurpation proceeds, and 'three families drive out the duke.' This directly references the Three Huan families of Lu — the Jisun, Shusun, and Mengsun clans — who expelled Duke Zhao of Lu in 517 BC. The duke fled to Qi and later died in exile at Ganhou in Jin. The verse names the classic Spring and Autumn pattern of ministerial usurpation. From Abundance to the Marrying Maiden, thunder over the lake: the Marrying Maiden warns of improper unions and positions taken out of order, mirroring the ministers who seized what was never rightfully theirs.
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