The Yî King · James Legge
Judgment
Hang indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.
1882 scan · p. 125Line 1 · Six, divided
The first line, divided, shows its subject deeply (desirous) of long continuance. Even with firm correctness there will be evil; there will be no advantage in any way.
1882 scan · p. 125Line 2 · Nine, undivided
The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.
1882 scan · p. 126Line 3 · Nine, undivided
The third line, undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret.
1882 scan · p. 126Line 4 · Nine, undivided
The fourth line, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.
1882 scan · p. 126Line 5 · Six, divided
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.
1882 scan · p. 126Line 6 · Six, divided
The topmost line, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.
1882 scan · p. 126James Legge · The Yî King (1882), Princeton scan. All 450 selected passages were independently image-read and compared by AI; unresolved print details remain. Not human or expert collation. Source and data ↗