21 April 2014
Hexagram 04, general note
The main theme of hexagram 4 as seen in the line texts is not the ignorant fellow, but the ignorant fellow who wants or needs his ignorance removed. There is a drive for gaining…
Read article →Articles, sources and criticism
Explore historical sources, translations, research articles and critical discussions of the Yijing.
Subjects assigned by the editor take priority. Unclassified articles are provisionally matched by title and excerpt; the complete archive remains available above.
Includes research, commentary and announcements from the original archive.
21 April 2014
The main theme of hexagram 4 as seen in the line texts is not the ignorant fellow, but the ignorant fellow who wants or needs his ignorance removed. There is a drive for gaining…
Read article →21 April 2014
Line 4 困蒙.吝. Kun 困: hindered, blocked (阻礙) 吝: difficulties; difficult progress (see hexagram 3, line 3) Blocked ignorance. Difficulties. Line 5 童蒙.吉. About tong meng 童蒙: see Judgment Repeated ignorance. Auspicious. Line 6 擊蒙.不利為寇.利禦寇.…
Read article →9 April 2014
勿用取女.見金夫不有躬.無攸利. Qu nü 取女 = 娶: Qu 取 normally means ‘to take by force’, but the phrase qu nü 取女 is most probably equal to the character qu 娶, which has…
Read article →7 April 2014
包蒙吉.納婦吉.子克家. Bao meng 包蒙: Several old books, like Lu Deming’s 陸德明 Jingdian Shiwen 經典釋文, claim that older texts used biao 彪 instead of bao. 唐石經作”苞”. 京房、鄭玄、陸績、一行作”彪”. The Tang Stone Classics use bao 苞.…
Read article →4 April 2014
發蒙.利用刑人.用說桎梏.以往吝. Fa meng 發蒙 = fa meng 發矇: make a blind person recover lost eye sight. Analogy for enlightening the stupid, open one’s eyes to new point of views (使盲人眼睛復明. 喻啟發矇昧;…
Read article →