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Yarrow 综卦 source note · 2026-07-17
Compare Hexagram 55 Feng (Abundance) and Hexagram 56 Lu (The Wanderer) as a zong gua inverse pair: reversed line order changes viewing direction without forecasting a transition.
Feng intimates greatness and success. The king attains it. Be without sorrow; be as the sun at noon, shedding its light upon all under heaven. The Tuan says: Feng means greatness. Brightness joined with movement — therefore abundance. "The king attains it" — he exalts what is great.
In the Zhouyi, three hexagrams specifically address "punishment and litigation": Shihe, Bi, and Feng. All three contain the trigram Li (fire), which is their common feature.
The Wanderer: slight success; the wandering brings good fortune through perseverance. The Commentary on the Judgment says: "The Wanderer has slight success." The yielding attains the central place in the outer trigram and submits to the firm; it rests still and cleaves to brightness.
The *Shuo Gua* says, "Gen represents the narrow path," and "Li represents fire." The hexagram *Lü* has Gen below and Li above, presenting an image of brightness attached to a "narrow path.
The local structured corpus records Hexagram 55's 综卦 (zong gua, inverse) as Hexagram 56, and Hexagram 56's inverse as Hexagram 55. In the corpus's stored six-line sequence, 100101 becomes 101001 when the order is reversed. Turning the figure end for end changes line positions while preserving each line's yin or yang polarity.
Draw 100101 and 101001 in two columns, reverse the first sequence, and verify the match. Then copy one concrete phrase from the reference layer for Feng and one from Lu; name one observable condition supporting each lens, choose one reversible check, and write what evidence would make you review the choice.
A zong gua pair is not a before-and-after promise. Feng does not automatically become Lu; reversed structure neither ranks the two figures nor says which one must follow.
The reference layers and the zong-gua relationship come from Yarrow's bundled structured Zhouyi corpus. The English wording is an editorial explanation of that stored relation. This note is not a fresh cast, a forecast, or a claim that one hexagram must turn into the other.