Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 4 蒙 Méng, Unknowing
  3. Line 3
4 蒙, line 3

Line 3 六三 yin, divided, of hexagram 4 蒙 Méng

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

勿用取女,見金夫,不有躬,无攸利。

wù yòng qǔ nǚ, jiàn jīn fū, bù yǒu gōng, wú yōu lì.

The third line, divided, (seems to say) that one should not marry a woman whose emblem it might be, for that, when she sees a man of wealth, she will not keep her person from him, and in no wise will advantage come from her. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

勿用取女,行不順也。

wù yòng qǔ nǚ, xíng bù shùn yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645379); 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.