Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 56 旅 Lǚ, The Traveller
  3. Line 6
56 旅, line 6

Line 6 上九 yang, undivided, of hexagram 56 旅 Lǚ

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

鳥焚其巢，旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易，凶。

niǎo fén qí cháo, lǚ rén xiān xiào hòu háo táo. sàng niú yú yì, xiōng.

The sixth line, undivided, suggests the idea of a bird burning its nest. The stranger, (thus represented), first laughs and then cries out. He has lost his ox(-like docility) too readily and easily. There will be evil. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

以旅在上，其義焚也。喪牛于易，終莫之聞也。

yǐ lǚ zài shàng, qí yì fén yě. sàng niú yú yì, zhōng mò zhī wén yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10647234); 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.