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I Ching, Hexagram 37Kiâ Zăn 家人 ䷤

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Confucianism · The Five Classics

I Ching, Hexagram 37

Kiâ Zăn 家人 ䷤

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家人:利女貞。
For (the realisation of what is taught in) Kiâ Zăn, (or for the regulation of the family), what is most advantageous is that the wife be firm and correct.
初九:閑有家,悔亡。
The first NINE, undivided, shows its subject establishing restrictive regulations in his household Occasion for repentance will disappear.
六二:无攸遂,在中饋,貞吉。
The second SIX, divided, shows its subject taking nothing on herself, but in her central place attending to the preparation of the food. Through her firm correctness there will be good fortune.
九三:家人嗃嗃,悔厲吉;婦子嘻嘻,終吝。
The third NINE, undivided, shows its subject (treating) the members of the household with stern severity. There will be occasion for repentance, there will be peril, (but) there will (also) be good fortune. If the wife and children were to be smirking and chattering, in the end there would be occasion for regret.
六四:富家,大吉。
The fourth SIX, divided, shows its subject enriching the family. There will be great good fortune.
九五:王假有家,勿恤。吉。
The fifth NINE, undivided, shows the influence of the king extending to his family. There need be no anxiety; there will be good fortune.
上九:有孚威如,終吉。
The topmost NINE, undivided, shows its subject possessed of sincerity and arrayed in majesty. In the end there will be good fortune.

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Sources & credits: Chinese · Legge

Chinese — 周易 (Classical Chinese) (Western Zhou core text (about 9th century BCE)). Public Domain. Chinese text from Wikisource, 周易 (the 易經 part of each hexagram), public domain. Source

Legge — The Yî King (James Legge, 1882) (1882). Public Domain. James Legge, The Sacred Books of the East vol. 16 (1882), public domain; the Text only (Legge's notes and the Appendixes left out); transcription from sacred-texts.com. Source