Hexagram 4 · line 1
Youthful Folly
蒙Méng
To dispel ignorance, punishment is beneficial, followed by release from the shackles. Continuing the punishment brings difficulty.
Line statement
初六
發蒙，利用刑人，用說桎梏，以往吝。
To dispel ignorance, punishment is beneficial, followed by release from the shackles. Continuing the punishment brings difficulty.
The opening line joins punishment with release: instruction cannot remain an endless act of restraint. Changing Line 1 from yielding to firm produces Hexagram 41.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes