Chapter 23 Stripping hexagram (23rd) Gen Shang Kun Xia

"Peeling": unfavorable and promising. "彖" said: "Peel", peeling also, softening becomes rigid. "Unfavorable has a future", the villain is also good.Go along with it, and observe the phenomenon. See what you can do before you move. Gentlemen still have information about surplus and emptiness, and heaven moves. "Xiang" says: The mountain is attached to the ground and "peeled off"; If the body is safe and the people are with it, those who "strip" will decline by themselves, and if they are not with them, they will be schooled.

The sixth day: stripping the bed for feet, contempt; chastity and fierceness. "Xiang" said: "Peel off the bed to get the feet", so as to destroy the bottom. Sixty-two: Peel the bed to distinguish, contempt; chastity and fierceness. "Xiang" said: "Peel off the bed to distinguish", there is no such thing as the same. The yang is above, so the gentleman above the three lines is himself.The self-carrying person (1) is also the bed, so the bed is the bed (2).The length of yin is like the overflow of water, so it is called "miao". "Discrimination" means above the feet, between the bed and the feet, so it is called "discernment".Compared with villains, a gentleman is not afraid that he has the evil of Qiushan, but fortunately he has the kindness of a hair, "stripping the bed to be enough", and he "distinguishes" it, but he still does not think it is evil, saying "contempt, chastity "Then "fierce".The villain is absolutely scornful of righteousness, and then "violent" is inevitable; if there is still more, the gentleman will cherish it from his "surplus", so it is said that "stripping the bed to distinguish, there is no adversity".The villain is evil, and someone will follow it and then be confident and reap the result.Fang Qi didn't have anything to do with him, so he was ashamed and failed.

(college note) (1) For oneself, for oneself: Both the original text and "Su Shi Yi Zhuan" are written as "ji", which is an error of engraving. (2) The bottom is the bed: "Su Shi Yi Zhuan" says "the bottom is the stripping bed", which is wrong. Six three: strip it, no blame. "Xiang" says: "There is no blame for peeling it off." Wang Bi said: "A group of yin strips yang, and I alone cooperate (1). Although it is stripped, there is no blame." (college note) (1) Ji Du Xie Yan: The original text and "Su Shi Yi Zhuan" both read "Ji Du Xie Yan", which is an error of engraving. Wang Bi's original annotation contained in "Zhouyi Zhengyi" was "I alone cooperate with Yan", so it was changed.

June 4th: Peel the bed and skin, fierce. "Xiang" said: "Peel off the bed to get the skin", which is close to disaster. "Peeling off the bed to remove the skin" begins with oneself (1), although you want to conceive it but you can't get it, so it is called "fierce". (college note) (1) Beginning and Jiyi: Both the original text and "Su Shiyi Zhuan" are written as "Ji", which is an error of engraving. Sixth Five-Year: Fish piercing, favored by palace people, no disadvantages. "Xiang" said: "Be favored by palace people", and there will be no specials in the end.

The world of "viewing" is almost as good as "peeling", and those who are not as good as villains are their main yang; six or five, the master of "peeling", and all "peeling" are of the same kind.A sage can't make it unfavorable to his kind, so he chooses the one whose harm is shallow.Four or less, the image of "piercing fish" is also.From top to bottom, all favors are given.If husbands love each other evenly, the power will be divided; if the power is divided, the harm will be shallow.It is not as good as politics to be favored by palace people.If it is not as good as politics, it is not only self-security, but also security, so there is "no disadvantage".The sage's teaching is also to allow it or let it be too much, and the common people follow it.If there must be no responsibility, then it is enough if there is no existence.

Upper Nine: If you don't eat the fruit, the gentleman will get the hut, and the villain will strip the hut. "Xiang" said: "A gentleman acquires a public opinion", which is recorded by the people; "Fruit", there is no one who does not see food; "Shuo" who does not see food, must not eat.The wise go, the fool stays.The upper nine have been lost to the people for a long time, and the power of the five yins is enough to take them. However, those who exist alone in the upper, Peter saves me, I think it is famous, if it is in harmony with it, it will survive, and if it is not in harmony, it will perish. It is also an inedible fruit, but it is urgent to get rid of it.When Peter aspires to the top, he will eat the bottom, so a gentleman can win the people by going to the top and getting out of the bottom.It is called "Yu" in the lower part, and it is called "Lu" in the upper part. The "lu" is stripped and reused, how can it be reused!