Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 28 大過 Dà Guò, Great Excess
  3. Line 2
28 大過, line 2

Line 2 九二 yang, undivided, of hexagram 28 大過 Dà Guò

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

枯楊生稊，老夫得其女妻，无不利。

kū yáng shēng tí, lǎo fū dé qí nǚ qī, wú bù lì.

The second line, undivided, shows a decayed willow producing shoots, or an old husband in possession of his young wife. There will be advantage in every way. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

老夫女妻，過以相與也。

lǎo fū nǚ qī, guò yǐ xiāng yǔ yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645184); the text is public domain, the site's edits CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI, Oxford 1882 (public domain).
  • Pinyin: Unihan (Unicode License v3) with this site's readings for the classical cases.