Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 36 明夷 Míng Yí, Light Wounded
  3. Line 6
36 明夷, line 6

Line 6 上六 yin, divided, of hexagram 36 明夷 Míng Yí

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

不明晦，初登于天，後入于地。

bù míng huì, chū dēng yú tiān, hòu rù yú dì.

The sixth line, divided, shows the case where there is no light, but (only) obscurity. (Its subject) had at first ascended to (the top of) the sky; his future shall be to go into the earth. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

初登于天，照四國也。後入于地，失則也。

chū dēng yú tiān, zhào sì guó yě. hòu rù yú dì, shī zé yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10644507); 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.