雜卦傳
Miscellaneous Notes on the Hexagrams
1 section · Commentary by Han Kangbo · Subcommentary by Kong Yingda
Miscellaneous Notes on the Hexagrams (Complete Text)
雜卦傳
雜卦者，雜糅眾卦，錯綜其義，或以同相類，或以異相明也。比樂師憂者，比相親比則樂，師用兵則憂也。臨觀之義或與或求者，臨以上臨下為與，觀以下觀上為求也。否泰反其類也者，泰通而否塞，天地氣交相反也。大壯則止者，壯盛則止其壯也。離上而坎下也者，火炎上水潤下也。君子道長小人道憂也者，以夬為全書之結，陽長陰消，君子之道日長也。
'Miscellaneous Hexagrams' mixes the various hexagrams together, interlacing and cross-referencing their meanings — sometimes pairing them by similarity, sometimes contrasting them for clarity.
'Bi brings joy; Shi brings worry' — Bi means drawing close to each other, hence joy; Shi means using military force, hence worry.
'The meaning of Lin and Guan: one gives, the other seeks' — Lin means the upper approaching the lower, which is giving; Guan means the lower contemplating the upper, which is seeking.
'Pi and Tai are the reversal of their kinds' — Tai penetrates and Pi obstructs; the qi of Heaven and Earth interact in opposite ways. 'Da Zhuang means stopping' — when strength reaches its peak, one stops at that strength. 'Li rises; Kan descends' — fire flames upward; water flows downward.
'The way of the noble person grows; the way of the petty person meets with worry' — using Guai as the conclusion of the entire book, yang grows and yin diminishes — the way of the noble person daily increases.
正義曰：此雜卦者，先儒謂之雜卦，雜糅眾卦，錯綜其義也。序卦以先後相次，明其前後之義。此雜卦則不依先後之序，或以同相類，或以異相明，雜糅諸卦，聚於此篇，故謂之雜卦也。先儒以卦多反對者，合反對而釋之。乾坤二卦首明剛柔之義。臨觀之義或與或求者，此一對也。損益盛衰之始者，此又一對也。否泰反其類者，天地氣交為泰，不交為否，故反其類也。末言夬卦以君子道長小人道憂而終者，蓋取陽長陰消之義，以此為六十四卦最終之辭也。
The Correct Meaning states: This is the Miscellaneous Notes on the Hexagrams. Earlier scholars called it the Miscellaneous Hexagrams because it mixes the various hexagrams together, interlacing and cross-referencing their meanings.
The Sequence of the Hexagrams arranges them in sequential order to illuminate their before-and-after relationships. ' Earlier scholars noted that most hexagrams form reversed pairs and therefore interpreted them in reversed pairs.
Qian and Kun head the text, establishing the meaning of firm and yielding. 'The meaning of Lin and Guan: one gives, the other seeks' — this is one pair. 'Sun and Yi are the beginning of flourishing and decline' — this is another pair.
'Pi and Tai are the reversal of their kinds' — when the qi of Heaven and Earth interact it is Tai; when they do not interact it is Pi — hence they are reversals of their kinds.
The text ends with the Guai hexagram and 'the way of the noble person grows; the way of the petty person meets with worry' because it takes the meaning of yang growing and yin diminishing, using this as the final statement of the sixty-four hexagrams.
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