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I Ching, Hexagram 56Lü 旅 ䷷

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Confucianism · The Five Classics

I Ching, Hexagram 56

Lü 旅 ䷷

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LeggeEnglish
旅:小亨,旅貞吉。
Lü intimates that (in the condition which it denotes) there may be some little attainment and progress. If the stranger or traveller be firm and correct as he ought to be, there will be good fortune.
初六:旅瑣瑣,斯其所取災。
The first SIX, divided, shows the stranger mean and meanly occupied. It is thus that he brings on himself (further) calamity.
六二:旅即次,懷其資,得僮僕貞。
The second SIX, divided, shows the stranger, occupying his lodging-house, carrying with him his means of livelihood, and provided with good and trusty servants.
九三:旅焚其次,喪其僮僕,貞厲。
The third NINE, undivided, shows the stranger, burning his lodging-house, and having lost his servants. However firm and correct he (try to) be, he will be in peril.
九四:旅于處,得其資斧,我心不快。
The fourth NINE, undivided, shows the traveller in a resting-place, having (also) the means of livelihood and the axe, (but still saying), 'I am not at ease in my mind.'
六五:射雉一矢亡,終以譽命。
The fifth SIX, divided, shows its subject shooting a pheasant. He will lose his arrow, but in the end he will obtain praise and a (high) charge.
上九:鳥焚其巢,旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易,凶。
The sixth NINE, undivided, suggests the idea of a bird burning its nest. The stranger, (thus represented), first laughs and then cries out. He has lost his ox(-like docility) too readily and easily. There will be evil.

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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