中孚 → 蒙

Commentary

Wind stirs above the lake as an infant cries for milk. The mother returns to her child, and the yellow fawn leaps with delight. The verse is pure domestic tenderness: hunger answered, presence restored, the natural world rejoicing in sympathy. The yellow fawn (黃麑) adds a layer of pastoral innocence — even the young deer shares in the reunion's warmth. From Inner Truth to Youthful Folly, the lake's sincerity descends into the spring emerging beneath the mountain. A child does not reason its way to trust; it simply knows the mother will come. This is folly in its most benign form — the unquestioning faith that precedes all knowledge, the mountain's hidden spring answering an instinct older than thought.