The Yî King · James Legge
Judgment
Lu intimates that (in the condition which it denotes) there may be some little attainment and progress. If the stranger or traveller be firm and correct as he ought to be, there will be good fortune.
1882 scan · p. 187Line 1 · Six, divided
The first line, divided, shows the stranger mean and meanly occupied. It is thus that he brings on himself (further) calamity.
1882 scan · p. 187Line 2 · Six, divided
The second line, divided, shows the stranger, occupying his lodging-house, carrying with him his means of livelihood, and provided with good and trusty servants.
1882 scan · p. 188Line 3 · Nine, undivided
The third line, undivided, shows the stranger, burning his lodging-house, and having lost his servants. However firm and correct he (try to) be, he will be in peril.
1882 scan · p. 188Line 4 · Nine, undivided
The fourth line, undivided, shows the traveller in a resting-place, having (also) the means of livelihood and the axe, (but still saying), 'I am not at ease in my mind.'
1882 scan · p. 188Line 5 · Six, divided
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject shooting a pheasant. He will lose his arrow, but in the end he will obtain praise and a (high) charge.
1882 scan · p. 188Line 6 · Nine, undivided
The sixth line, undivided, suggests the idea of a bird burning its nest. The stranger, (thus represented), first laughs and then cries out. He has lost his ox(-like docility) too readily and easily. There will be evil.
1882 scan · p. 188James 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 ↗