Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 49 革 Gé, Reform
  3. Line 1
49 革, line 1

Line 1 初九 yang, undivided, of hexagram 49 革 Gé

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

鞏用黃牛之革。

gǒng yòng huáng niú zhī gé.

The first line, undivided, shows its subject (as if he were) bound with the skin of a yellow ox. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

鞏用黃牛，不可以有為也。

gǒng yòng huáng niú, bù kě yǐ yǒu wèi yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10643173); 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.