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  1. The 64
  2. 55 豐 Fēng, Abundance
  3. Line 3
55 豐, line 3

Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 55 豐 Fēng

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

豐其沛，日中見沬，折其右肱，无咎。

fēng qí pèi, rì zhōng jiàn mèi, zhé qí yòu gōng, wú jiù.

The third line, undivided, shows its subject with an (additional) screen of a large and thick banner, through which at midday he can see (the small) Mei star. (In the darkness) he breaks his right arm; but there will be no error. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

豐其沛，不可大事也。折其右肱，終不可用也。

fēng qí pèi, bù kě dà shì yě. zhé qí yòu gōng, zhōng bù kě yòng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645290); 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.