Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 48 井 Jǐng, The Well
  3. Line 5
48 井, line 5

Line 5 九五 yang, undivided, of hexagram 48 井 Jǐng

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

井冽，寒泉食。

jǐng liè, hán quán shí.

The fifth line, undivided, shows a clear, limpid well, (the waters from) whose cold spring are (freely) drunk. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

寒泉之食，中正也。

hán quán zhī shí, zhōng zhèng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645240); 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.