Hexagram 55 of 64
Abundance
豐 Fēng
Upper trigram: 震 Zhèn, thunder
Lower trigram: 離 Lí, fire
The judgment
亨。王假之，勿憂，宜日中。
Success. The king arrives at this. Do not be anxious. Midday is the right time.
The Great Image
雷電皆至，豐；君子以折獄致刑。
Thunder and lightning arrive together: this is Abundance. In the same way, the noble person settles cases and applies penalties.
The six lines
Lines are counted from the bottom. Read a line closely when it changes in your cast.
Line 1 初九
遇其配主，雖旬无咎，往有尚。
Meeting the lord who is one's match. Though it lasts ten days, no blame. Going on earns regard.
The line pictures a meeting of equals that lasts about ten days. Ask who is well matched to you right now and what the two of you could do in a short span.
Line 2 六二
豐其蔀，日中見斗，往得疑疾，有孚發若，吉。
Thickening the screen of thatch. At midday the Dipper is visible. Going brings suspicion and ill will. There is trust, brought out plainly. Good fortune.
The screen has grown so thick that the Dipper shows at noon, and going forward may meet suspicion. Consider whether plain trust, shown openly, could do more here than an argument.
Line 3 九三
豐其沛，日中見沬，折其右肱，无咎。
Thickening the curtain. At midday the faint stars are visible. The right forearm is broken. No blame.
The right arm stands for the hand you do your work with, and in this deep shade it is out of use. Ask what you would do if your strongest means of acting were unavailable for a while.
Line 4 九四
豐其蔀，日中見斗，遇其夷主，吉。
Thickening the screen of thatch. At midday the Dipper is visible. Meeting a lord of equal standing. Good fortune.
This is the same dark noon as the second line, and this time someone meets a peer in it. Consider who stands on the same level as you and could share the dimness with you.
Line 5 六五
來章，有慶譽，吉。
Brilliance comes. There is celebration and praise. Good fortune.
Brightness arrives here from outside, with celebration and praise behind it. Ask whose talent you could invite in and give credit to.
Line 6 上六
豐其屋，蔀其家，窺其戶，闃其无人，三歲不觌，凶。
Enlarging the house and screening off the household. Peering in at the door: silent, no one there. For three years no one is seen. Misfortune.
A grand house behind screens, with no one seen at the door for three years, is plenty that has closed itself off. Ask who has stopped being able to reach you, and whether you had a hand in that.
What this hexagram says
This hexagram is fire below and thunder above, light and force arriving together. It stands for fullness at its peak, like a harvest, a busy season or the sun straight overhead.
The judgment tells the king not to be anxious and names midday as the right time. Midday is also the moment just before the sun begins to fall. Ask what you would do with a full hour if you knew it would pass.
If your question is about a busy stretch at work, a full household or a project at its height, tradition reads this as a time to act while conditions are good. Several lines show a bright day turned dark, and the last shows a big house with no one in it. Watch what abundance could be shutting out.
A hexagram is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
Where this text comes from
The Chinese follows the Wikisource text of the Zhou Yi (its page for this hexagram, 周易/豐), compared with the Project Gutenberg edition. The Great Image comes from the Wikisource page 周易/大象.
- Wikisource, 周易
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- Project Gutenberg eBook 25501, 易經
Retrieved 2026-11-08
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Where the sources differ
- In line 九三, Wikisource (A) reads 日中見沬, with 沬 (a faint star). Project Gutenberg (B) reads 日中見沫, with 沫 (foam). The two characters look almost the same.
- In line 上六, Wikisource (A) writes 觌 and Project Gutenberg (B) writes 覿, and in lines 初九, 九三 and 上六 Project Gutenberg writes 無 where Wikisource has 无. These are variant forms of the same words.
The English renderings and the advice are by Cast & Chart. The advice is a modern reading and is not part of the classical text.