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Yù — Thunder Released

雷地豫 · Legge: Yu · Thunder above, Earth below

Enthusiasm moves a crowd, so it must be aimed; music and joy are tools here, not rewards.

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The Judgment

Yù. Feudal princes may be set up, and the hosts put in motion, with advantage.

Legge’s 1882 translation

Yu indicates that, (in the state which it implies), feudal princes may be set up, and the hosts put in motion, with advantage.

The Image

XVI. (The trigrams for) the earth and thunder issuing from it with its crashing noise form Yu. The ancient kings, in accordance with this, composed their music and did honour to virtue, presenting it especially and most grandly to God, when they associated with Him (at the service) their highest ancestor and their father.

雷出地奋,豫;先王以作乐崇德,殷荐之上帝,以配祖考。

The Six Lines

The first six · 初六

The first line, divided, shows its subject proclaiming his pleasure and satisfaction. There will be evil.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The first six, divided, shows its subject proclaiming his pleasure and satisfaction. There will be evil.

The second six · 六二

The second line, divided, shows one who is firm as a rock. Without waiting till it has come to pass; with his firm correctness there will be good fortune.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The second six, divided, shows one who is firm as a rock. (He sees a thing) without waiting till it has come to pass; with his firm correctness there will be good fortune.

The third six · 六三

The third line, divided, shows one looking up, while he indulges the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. If he would understand! If he be late in doing so, there will indeed be occasion for repentance.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The third six, divided, shows one looking up, (for favors), while he indulges the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. If he would understand! -- If he be late in doing so, there will indeed be occasion for repentance.

The fourth nine · 九四

The fourth line, undivided, shows him from whom the harmony and satisfaction come. Great is the success which he obtains. Let him not allow suspicions to enter his mind, and thus friends will gather around him.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The fourth nine, undivided, shows him from whom the harmony and satisfaction come. Great is the success which he obtains. Let him not allow suspicions to enter his mind, and thus friends will gather around him.

The fifth six · 六五

The fifth line, divided, shows one with a chronic complaint, but who lives on without dying.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The fifth six, divided, shows one with a chronic complaint, but who lives on without dying.

The topmost six · 上六

The topmost line, divided, shows its subject with darkened mind devoted to the pleasure and satisfaction; but if he change his course even when completed, there will be no error.

Legge’s 1882 translation

The topmost six, divided, shows its subject with darkened mind devoted to the pleasure and satisfaction (of the time); but if he change his course even when (it may be considered as) completed, there will be no error.

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