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蒙

№ 4 · learning and not-knowing

Youthful Folly

Not knowing is no shame. It is dangerous to demand answers while refusing to learn.

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Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

蒙：亨。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。初筮告，再三渎，渎则不告。利贞。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Youthful Folly: free passage. It is not I who seek the young fool; the young fool seeks me. At the first divination I inform; a second and third time profane it. If profaned, I do not inform. Constancy is beneficial.

童蒙 is retained as an image of immature ignorance, not an insult to the user; 渎 marks repeated, disrespectful consultation.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, COMMENTARY_CONTAMINATION_RISK

zhouyi-04-guaci · sha256:3bc6c9f8b03dc4bdf06be4406c1480199b378f6f2fc03b091bf4285b7128dad4

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六：发蒙，利用刑人，用说桎梏，以往吝。

Initial Six: opening the unformed. It is beneficial to use punishment and to remove fetters and shackles. To continue with punishment brings regret.

刑人 is explicit penal language and 说桎梏 is release from fetters. The final product baseline restores the historical harshness instead of euphemizing it as modern “discipline”; the line remains descriptive, not contemporary punitive advice.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: nofinal correction appliedtranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

zhouyi-04-line-1 · sha256:4d3e260396ee3d03579e06400c6712f4bc053977569ca7ba42d870f9594b6de4

Line 2 · 爻辭

九二：包蒙吉，纳妇吉，子克家。

Nine in the Second: embracing the unformed is auspicious. Taking a wife is auspicious. The son is capable of managing the household.

包蒙, 納婦, and 子克家 form a compact household/social formula. The draft keeps its historical gendered setting; human review should resist normalizing it into a universal modern family prescription.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

zhouyi-04-line-2 · sha256:c47b06da1b9bf312912fb118621363b66728af632a63589a3654031a55038992

Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：勿用取女，见金夫，不有躬，无攸利。

Six in the Third: do not take this woman. She sees a man of wealth and does not possess herself. Nothing is beneficial.

金夫 is difficult; the draft follows the traditional sense of a powerful/wealthy man while keeping the social setting historical.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-04-line-3 · sha256:0ee7f8fe46b5ba28c3ab522ff3fddf3a1a531a39b739f9abd8cc6496e4dff254

Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：困蒙，吝。

Six in the Fourth: confined in folly. Regret.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-04-line-4 · sha256:837b0762870ee94a00fa2f3b80951a6a27f56ce9c2356ac7853197268497549c

Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：童蒙，吉。

Six in the Fifth: youthful folly. Auspicious.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-04-line-5 · sha256:e5051ab274ed146b4f768214daf747dbc2acf6cae54704fe519e536b2034756f

Line 6 · 爻辭

上九：击蒙，不利为寇，利御寇。

Top Nine: striking at folly. It is not beneficial to act as a bandit; it is beneficial to ward off bandits.

擊蒙 is set against being a 寇 and paired with 御寇. The attack/defense contrast is historical source language, not authorization for modern punitive or violent action.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

zhouyi-04-line-6 · sha256:1af19a0a6c462b1117580d6dc8812f2973b93615f7ffec539773de6397511e9d

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳上 · Tuan Commentary I象傳上 · Image Commentary I

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The matter contains a knowledge gap, repeated question, or desire for a ready conclusion.

Advice

Formulate the question more honestly, learn from the result, and do not ask the same thing ten times.

Caution

The oracle should not become a crutch instead of maturity.

How to read lines

  • • First read Youthful Folly as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Youthful Folly day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Youthful Folly asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • What do I already know but avoid admitting?
  • • What lesson repeats?
  • • Who is the student here?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “Youthful Folly” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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