Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 30 離 Lí, Radiance
  3. Line 3
30 離, line 3

Line 3 九三 yang, undivided, of hexagram 30 離 Lí

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

日昃之離，不鼓缶而歌，則大耋之差，凶。

rì zè zhī lí, bù gǔ fǒu ér gē, zé dà dié zhī chà, xiōng.

The third line, undivided, shows its subject in a position like that of the declining sun. Instead of playing on his instrument of earthenware, and singing to it, he utters the groans of an old man of eighty. There will be evil. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

日昃之離，何可久也。

rì zè zhī lí, hé kě jiǔ yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10646424); 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.