巽 → 蒙
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Line 3
九三 頻巽吝。
Nine in the third place means: Repeated penetration. Humiliation.
Line 5
九五 貞吉悔亡。无不利。无初有終。先庚三日。後庚三日。吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes. Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end. Before the change, three days. After the change, three days. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
他山之儲，與璆為仇。來攻吾城，傷我肌膚。邦家搔憂。
Stores from foreign mountains; they come as foes bearing jade. They attack our city walls; they wound our flesh. The realm is plunged into grief.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into mountain over water: penetrating influence meets bewilderment. Foreign powers hoard their mountain wealth and bear a grudge against one's precious jade. They come to attack our city, wounding our very flesh, and the state falls into anxious turmoil. The 'jade enmity' motif — where neighboring states covet another's treasure and use it as a pretext for aggression — runs throughout Spring and Autumn diplomatic history. From The Gentle to Youthful Folly, the transformation is devastating: wind's soft persuasion proves useless against brute invasion. Mountain over water should be the spring of understanding, but here the mountain is the enemy's stronghold and the water is confusion. When gentleness cannot deter hostility, the state is left groping in darkness.
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