4 March 2014
Hexagram 02, line 3
含章可貞, 或從王事, 无成有終. Hanzhang 含章: the same phrase occurs at H44-5. Han 含 means ‘to keep in the mouth; to hide, conceal’. The Shanghai MSS manuscript has [玉+欦], which might be related to yin 㱃,…
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3 March 2014
Hexagram 02, line 1 & 2
First line 履霜堅冰至. Thread on frost: hard ice comes. Second line 直方大.不習無不利. See for zhi 直, ‘to receive’ and other meanings this page. See also Scott Barnwell’s excellent article about de 德, The Evolution of…
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2 March 2014
Hexagram 02, Judgment
Name Just as with the name of hexagram 1, the name of hexagram 2, kun 坤 is difficult to translate, because the character only occurs in the Yijing and nowhere else (accept later…
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Hexagram 01, line 5 & 6, surplus text
Fifth line 飛龍在天.利見大人. Daren 大人 (see also line 2) can refer to a person in a high position, like the nobility. In the Shijing 詩經 it is used as the title for a…
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About Tuan 彖 and Hexagram 1, Judgment and lines 1-4
What in most translations is called The Judgment Text has the Chinese title Tuan 彖. This character might be related to 㣇, which is read as 祟 on oracle bones, meaning ‘to expel…
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