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TUAN-U · 30 units · text_version: yizhuan-en-1.0.0 · review_status: draft
Original text pending collation; translations under continuous revision.
| 單元 | Original | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Hexagram 01 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-01-01 | 雖磐桓，志行正也。以貴下賤，大得民也。 | Although there is a difficulty in advancing, the mind of the person represented by the line is set on doing what is correct. While noble, the person humbles themself to the mean, and clearly gains the people. |
| Hexagram 02 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-02-01 | 六二之難，乘剛也。十年乃字，反常也。 | The difficulty to the person represented by the second yielding line, arises from its place over the undivided line below it. The union and children after ten years shows things resuming their regular course. |
| Hexagram 03 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-03-01 | 即鹿无虞，以從禽也。君子舍之，往吝窮也。 | One pursues the deer without the guidance of the forester: the person does so in their eagerness to follow the game. The noble person gives up the chase, knowing that if the person go forward the person will regret it: the person would be reduced to extremity. |
| Hexagram 04 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-04-01 | 求而往，明也。 | This line or image shows that going forward after such a search for a helper shows intelligence. |
| Hexagram 05 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-05-01 | 屯其膏，施未光也。 | Difficulty is experienced by the person represented by the fifth line in bestowing their rich favours: the extent to which they reach will not yet be conspicuous. |
| Hexagram 06 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-06-01 | 泣血漣如，何可長也。 | The person weeps tears of blood in streams: how can the state therefore emblemed continue long? |
| Hexagram 07 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-07-01 | 山下出泉，蒙；君子以果行育德。 | The trigram representing a mountain, and beneath it that for a spring issuing forth form Mang. The noble person, following this image, strives to be resolute in their conduct and nourishes their virtue. |
| Hexagram 08 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-08-01 | 利用刑人，以正法也。 | This line or image shows that it is favorable to use punishment: the object being to bring under the influence of correcting law. |
| Hexagram 09 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-09-01 | 子克家，剛柔接也。 | A son able to sustain the burden of their family: as appears from the reciprocation between this strong line and the weak fifth line. |
| Hexagram 10 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-10-01 | 勿用取女，行不順也。 | This line or image shows that a woman such as is here represented should not be taken in marriage: her conduct is not agreeable to what is right. |
| Hexagram 11 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-11-01 | 困蒙之吝，獨遠實也。 | The image gives this practical lesson: the regret arising from ignorance bound in chains is due to the special distance of the person represented by this line from the solidity shown in lines 2 and 6. |
| Hexagram 12 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-12-01 | 童蒙之吉，順以巽也。 | The good fortune belonging to the simple lad without experience comes from their docility going on to humility. |
| Hexagram 13 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-13-01 | 利禦寇，上下順也。 | The image gives this practical lesson: advantage will come from warding off injury: the person represented by this line above and the ignorant below, all do and are done to in accordance with their nature. |
| Hexagram 14 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-14-01 | 雲上於天，需；君子以飲食宴樂。 | The trigram for clouds ascending over that for the sky forms Xu. The noble person, following this image, eats and drinks, feasts and enjoys themself as if there were nothing else to employ them. |
| Hexagram 15 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-15-01 | 需于郊，不犯難行也。利用恆，无咎，未失常也。 | The person is waiting in the distant border: the person makes no movement to encounter rashly the difficulties of the situation. It will be beneficial for them constantly to maintain the purpose therefore shown, in which case there is no blame: the person will not fail to pursue that regular course. |
| Hexagram 16 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-16-01 | 需于沙，衍在中也。雖小有言，以終吉也。 | The person is waiting on the sand: the person occupies their position in the centre with a generous forbearance. Though the person suffer the small injury of being spoken against, the person will bring things to a good issue. |
| Hexagram 17 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-17-01 | 需于泥，災在外也。自我致寇，敬慎不敗也。 | The person is waiting in the mud: serious trouble is close at hand, and as it were in the outer trigram. The person themself invites the approach of injury: if the person be reverent and careful, the person will not be worsted. |
| Hexagram 18 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-18-01 | 需于血，順以聽也。 | The person is waiting in the place of blood: the person accommodates themself to the circumstances of the time, and hearkens to its requirements. |
| Hexagram 19 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-19-01 | 酒食，貞吉，以中正也。 | The appliances of a feast, and the good fortune through being steadfast and right, are indicated, by the position in the central and correct place. |
| Hexagram 20 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-20-01 | 不速之客來，敬之終吉。雖不當位，未大失也。 | Guests come unurged to give their help, and if the person represented by the line receive them respectfully, this brings good fortune in the end: though the occupant and the place are not suited to each other, there has been no great failure in what has been done. |
| Hexagram 21 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-21-01 | 天與水違行，訟；君子以作事謀始。 | The trigram representing heaven and that representing water, moving away from each other, form Song. The noble person, following this image, in the transaction of affairs takes good counsel about their first steps. |
| Hexagram 22 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-22-01 | 不永所事，訟不可長也。雖小有言，其辯明也。 | The person does not perpetuate the matter about which the contention is: contention should not be prolonged. Although the person may suffer the small injury of being spoken against, their argument is clear. |
| Hexagram 23 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-23-01 | 不克訟，歸逋竄也。自下訟上，患至掇也。 | The person is unequal to the contention; the person retires and keeps concealed, stealthily withdrawing from it: for them from their lower place to contend with the stronger one above, would be to invite serious trouble, as if the person brought it with their hand to themself. |
| Hexagram 24 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-24-01 | 食舊德，從上吉也。 | The person confines themself to the support assigned to them of old: therefore following those above them, the person will have good fortune. |
| Hexagram 25 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-25-01 | 復即命渝，安貞，不失也。 | The person returns to the study of Heavens ordinances, changes their wish to contend, and rests in being steadfast and right: the person does not fail in doing what is right. |
| Hexagram 26 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-26-01 | 訟，元吉，以中正也。 | The person contends; and with great fortune: this is shown by their holding the due mean and being in the correct place. |
| Hexagram 27 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-27-01 | 以訟受服，亦不足敬也。 | The person receives the robe through their contention: but still the person is not deserving of respect. |
| Hexagram 28 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-28-01 | 地中有水，師；君子以容民畜衆。 | The trigram representing the earth and in the midst of it that representing water, form Shi. The noble person, following this image, nourishes and educates the people, and collects from among them the multitudes of the hosts. |
| Hexagram 29 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-29-01 | 師出以律；失律，凶也。 | The host goes forth according to the rules for such a movement: if those rules be not observed, this brings misfortune. |
| Hexagram 30 Tuan CommentaryTUAN-U-30-01 | 在師中吉，承天寵也。王三錫命，懷萬邦也。 | The person is in the midst of the host, and this brings good fortune: the person has received the favour of Heaven. The king has thrice conveyed to them the orders of their favour: the king cherishes the myriad regions in their heart. |