Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 12 否 Pǐ, Blocked
  3. Line 5
12 否, line 5

Line 5 九五 yang, undivided, of hexagram 12 否 Pǐ

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

休否，大人吉。其亡其亡，繫于包桑。

xiū pǐ, dà rén jí. qí wáng qí wáng, xì yú bāo sāng.

In the fifth line, undivided, we see him who brings the distress and obstruction to a close,—the great man and fortunate. (But let him say), ‘We may perish! We may perish!’ (so shall the state of things become firm, as if) bound to a clump of bushy mulberry trees. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

大人之吉，位正當也。

dà rén zhī jí, wèi zhèng dāng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645603); 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.