Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 26 大畜 Dà Chù, Great Restraint
  3. Line 5
26 大畜, line 5

Line 5 六五 yin, divided, of hexagram 26 大畜 Dà Chù

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

豶豕之牙,吉。

fén shǐ zhī yá, jí.

The fifth line, divided, shows the teeth of a castrated hog. There will be good fortune. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

六五之吉,有慶也。

liù wǔ zhī jí, yǒu qìng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10646304); 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.