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25 November 2014
在師中.吉.無咎.王三錫命. Ximing 錫命: Appointments granted by the king. Here the king three times grants an appointment. In the Zhouli 周禮 there are nine appointments mentioned, the jiuming 九命, each giving greater awards: [The jiuming 九命 are] an array of…
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24 November 2014
師出以律.否臧凶. Shi 師: army, armed forces. Chu 出: to go out, set forth Lü 律: statutes, regulations; pitch-pipes. In the field of Yi translators it isn’t decided whether lü should mean ‘law, regulations, statutes’ or…
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貞丈人吉. 無咎. Zhangren 丈人: in early times a respectful form of address for elder people (古時對老人的尊稱). There is difference between the pattern X貞吉 (like in the Judgment of hexagram 2) and 貞X吉…
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3 October 2014
line 5 訟元吉. Disputing. Greatly auspicious. line 6 或錫之鞶帶.終朝三褫之. Huo 或: ‘there is’, see H1-4 Xi 錫: ‘to grant, to bestow’ (賜予) Pan 鞶: a large waistband, belt, or girdle made of leather, used…
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不克訟. 復即命渝.安貞: 吉. 不克訟: see line 2. Fu 復: return Jiming 即命: follow the royal decrees (遵從王命) Yu 渝: In its ordinary meaning it means ‘change’, but I could not make this fit the…
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