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WENYAN · 35 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 Words Commentary Unit 1WENYAN-01-01 | 師或輿尸，大无功也。 | The image gives this practical lesson: the host with the possibility of its having many idle leaders: great will be its want of success. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 2WENYAN-01-02 | 左次无咎，未失常也。 | This line or image shows that the host is in retreat; but there is no error: there has been no failure in the regular course. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 3WENYAN-01-03 | 長子帥師，以中行也。弟子輿尸，使不當也。 | The oldest son leads the host: its movements are directed by them in accordance with their position in the centre. Younger men idly occupy their positions: the employment of such men is improper. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 4WENYAN-01-04 | 大君有命，以正功也。小人勿用，必亂邦也。 | The great ruler delivers their charges: thereby the person rightly apportions merit. Small men should not be employed: they are sure to throw the states into confusion. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 5WENYAN-01-05 | 地上有水，比；先王以建萬國，親諸侯。 | The trigram representing the earth, and over it that representing water, form Bi. The ancient kings, following this image, established the various states and maintained an affectionate relation to their princes. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 6WENYAN-01-06 | 比之初六，有它吉也。 | From the seeking union with its object shown in the first yielding line, this will bring other advantages. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 7WENYAN-01-07 | 比之自內，不自失也。 | The movement towards union and attachment proceeds from the inward mind: the party concerned does not fail in what is proper to themself. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 8WENYAN-01-08 | 比之匪人，不亦傷乎！ | This line or image shows that union is sought with such as ought not to be associated with: but will not injury be the result? |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 9WENYAN-01-09 | 外比於賢，以從上也。 | Union is sought by the party intended here with one beyond themself, and in this case with a worthy object: the person is following the ruler above them. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 10WENYAN-01-10 | 顯比之吉，位正中也。舍逆取順，失前禽也。邑人不誡，上使中也。 | The good fortune belonging to the most illustrious instance of seeking union and attachment appears in the correct and central position of the fifth firm line. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 11WENYAN-01-11 | 比之无首，无所終也。 | The person seeks union and attachment without taking the first step to such an end: there is no possibility of a good issue. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 12WENYAN-01-12 | 風行天上，小畜，君子以懿文德。 | The trigram representing the sky, and that representing wind moving above it, form Xiao Xu. The noble person, following this image, adorns the outward manifestation of their virtue. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 13WENYAN-01-13 | 復自道，其義吉也。 | The person returns and pursues their own path: it is right that there should be good fortune. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 14WENYAN-01-14 | 牽復在中，亦不自失也。 | By the attraction of the person represented by the former line the person returns to its own course, and is in the central place: neither will the person err in what is due from them. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 15WENYAN-01-15 | 夫妻反目，不能正室也。 | Husband and wife look on each other with averted eyes: the person represented by line three is like a husband who cannot maintain correctly their relations with their wife. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 16WENYAN-01-16 | 有孚。惕出。上合志也。 | The person is possessed of sincerity; their ground for apprehension is dismissed: the subjects of the lines above agree in aim with them. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 17WENYAN-01-17 | 有孚攣如，不獨富也。 | The person is possessed of sincerity, and draws others to unite with them: the person does not use only their own rich resources. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 18WENYAN-01-18 | 既雨既處，德積載也。君子征凶，有所疑也。 | The rain has fallen and the onward progress is stayed: the power denoted in the figure has accumulated to the full. If the noble person prosecute their measures, this brings misfortune: the person will find themself obstructed. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 19WENYAN-01-19 | 上天下澤，履；君子以辨上下，定民志。 | The trigram representing the sky above, and below it that representing the waters of a marsh, form Li. The noble person, following this image, discriminates between high and low, and gives settlement to the aims of the people. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 20WENYAN-01-20 | 素履之往，獨行願也。 | The person treads their accustomed path and goes forward: singly and exclusively the person carries out their long-cherished wishes. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 21WENYAN-01-21 | 幽人貞吉，中不自亂也。 | A quiet and solitary man, to whom, being steadfast and right, this brings good fortune: holding the due mean, the person will not allow themself to be thrown into disorder. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 22WENYAN-01-22 | 眇能視，不足以有明也。跛能履，不足以與行也。咥人之凶，位不當也。武人為于大君，志剛也。 | A one-eyed man who thinks that the person can see: the person is not fit to see clearly. A lame man who thinks that the person can tread well: one cannot walk along with them. The ill fortune of being bitten arises from the place not being the proper one for them. A mere bravo acting the part of a great ruler: this is because of their aims being too violent. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 23WENYAN-01-23 | 愬愬終吉，志行也。 | The person becomes full of cautious caution, and in the end this brings good fortune: their aim takes effect. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 24WENYAN-01-24 | 夬履貞厲，位正當也。 | The person treads resolutely; and though the person be steadfast and right, there is danger: this is due to their being in the position that is correct and appropriate to them. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 25WENYAN-01-25 | 元吉在上，大有慶也。 | This will bring great good fortune, and that in the occupancy of the topmost line: this is great matter for congratulation. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 26WENYAN-01-26 | 天地交，泰；后以財成天地之道，輔相天地之宜，以左右民。 | The trigrams for heaven and earth in communication together form Tai. The sage sovereign, in harmony with this, fashions and completes their regulations after the courses of heaven and earth, and assists the application of the adaptations furnished by them,; in order to benefit the people. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 27WENYAN-01-27 | 拔茅征吉，志在外也。 | The good fortune of advance, as suggested by the emblem of the grass pulled up, arises from the will of the party intended being set on what is external to themself. |
| Hexagram 01 Words Commentary Unit 28WENYAN-01-28 | 包荒，得尚于中行，以光大也。 | The person bears with the uncultivated, and proves themself acting in accordance with the due mean: for their intelligence is bright and their capacity is great. |
| Hexagram 02 Words Commentary Unit 1WENYAN-02-01 | 无往不復，天地際也。 | There is no going away so that there will not be a return refers to this as the point where the interaction of heaven and earth takes place. |
| Hexagram 02 Words Commentary Unit 2WENYAN-02-02 | 翩翩不富，皆失實也。不戒以孚，中心願也。 | The person comes fluttering down, not relying on their own rich resources: both the person and their neighbours are out of their real place where they are. They have not received warning, but come in the sincerity of their hearts: this is what they have desired in the core of their hearts. |
| Hexagram 02 Words Commentary Unit 3WENYAN-02-03 | 以祉，元吉。中以行願也。 | By such a course there is happiness, and this will bring great good fortune: the person represented by the line employs the virtue proper to their central position to carry their wishes into effect. |
| Hexagram 02 Words Commentary Unit 4WENYAN-02-04 | 城復于隍，其命亂也。 | The image gives this practical lesson: the city wall returned back into the moat shows how the governmental orders have long been in disorder. |
| Hexagram 02 Words Commentary Unit 5WENYAN-02-05 | 天地不交，否；君子以儉德辟難，不可榮以祿。 | The trigrams of heaven and earth, not in intercommunication, form Bi. The noble person, following this image, restrains the manifestation of) their virtue, and avoids the calamities that threaten them. There is no opportunity of conferring on them the glory of official reward. |
| Hexagram 02 Words Commentary Unit 6WENYAN-02-06 | 拔茅貞吉，志在君也。 | The image gives this practical lesson: the good fortune through firm goodness, suggested by the pulling up of the grass, arises from the will of the parties intended being bent on serving the ruler. |
| Hexagram 02 Words Commentary Unit 7WENYAN-02-07 | 大人否，亨。不亂羣也。 | The person of mature character, comporting themself as the distress and obstruction require, will have success: the person does not allow themself to be disordered by the herd of lesser people. |