Yarrow Stalks
  1. The 64
  2. 7 師 Shī, The Army
  3. Line 3
7 師, line 3

Line 3 六三 yin, divided, of hexagram 7 師 Shī

The line, with Legge

Line statement 爻辭

師或輿尸，凶。

shī huò yú shī, xiōng.

The third line, divided, shows how the host may, possibly, have many inefficient leaders. There will be evil. (Legge, 1882)

The Image 小象

師或輿尸，大无功也。

shī huò yú shī, dà wú gōng yě.

Where this line leads

Sources

  • Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 2405011); 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.