Mawangdui Yi Jing

(the numbers are from the received Yi, not the numbers of the Mawangdui Yi Jing)

01. JIÀN, key.

02.  CHUÁN, the flow or stream, the female organ.

03. 

04. 

05.  rú short tunic; very fine and light silk (a silk garment for the winter sacrifice)

06. 

07. 

08. 

09.  SHAO3 yì little ability, little to plant (a picture of a person lifting up a small plant).

10.  LI3 sacrifice, ritual, gift, courtesy.

11. 

12.  fù return. The ‘broom’ was probably originally an attribute of nobility, and only later got its meaning as broom.

13. 

14. 

15.  QIÀN hold an object in the mouth, hate, disagreeable (like clenched teeth).

16.  YÙ left-over, extra, surplus; remainder

17. 

18.  Gè bamboo twig; measure for mulberry leaves.

19.  lín wood, forest.

20. 

21.  shì tell the future using yarrow stalks

22.  fán: Artemisia Stelleriana.

23. 

24. 

25.  wú mèng: without first child. According to Hertzer: without effort.

26.  xù store, save; grow;

27. 

28.  tài guò for DA - big in hex.28 of the Zhouyi - another character is used: tai, great. It is the name of hex.11.

29.  XÍ GÀN used to paying tribute, pay repeatedly for the music, repeated trapfall.

30.  LUÓ net for catching birds

31.  QĪN To respect; obey with respect, Imperial.

32. 

33.  YUÀN minor official; subordinate. The part translated as 'determine' is a hedge-hog

34.  TÀI ZHUÀNG great vigor. The character for big is tai, which is the name of hex.11: great, eminent.

35. ZAN3 acquatic, submerged, latent, humidity in the earth.

36. 

37. 

38.  GUĀI (ramified ram’s horns) odd, singular, perverse; clever, well-behaved. Etymology: turning one's back. 'Ramification': the rivers from different directions, and seeing others as different. Evaluating, separating, staring.

39. 

40. 

41. 

42. 

43. 

44.  GOU3 dog, damned; cursed (Talk about misogynistic, the Mawangdui text titles the hexagram Gou, The Bitch, both as female dog and a term of contempt. "Not at all useful to court the bitch." Bradford)

45.  ZÚ soldier, private; pawn; servant; finally; finish; die

46.  DĒNG climb, ascend; mount, publish; record, harvest, pedal, step on. It is composed of two feet and 'pot-of-beans' or 'drum', but here with the meaning 'pedestal'.

47. 

48. 

49. 

50. 

51.  chèn, 5th of 12 Earthly Branches; 2-hr period; star, 7-9 A.M., time; day; occasion, celestial body (time-marker). It is a picture of an ancient hoe.

52.  GĒN root or base, cause, beginning.

53. 

54. 

55. 

56. 

57.  SUÀN counting sticks (271 pieces, before abacus), exch. with SUAN4: count, calculate, number, plan, sum, combine, elaborate (a plan), project, strategy, foresee, to divine, life-span, taxes (at Han), food-basket.

58.  DUÓ force one's way; take by force; seize; wrest, contend for, deprive, decision, omission (in text). Bird-hand has the meaning 'spread the wings and fly', impetuous, energetic, burst forth. Duoduo: to force one’s way.

59. 

60. 

61.  ZHŌNG FÙ either 'return halfway' or 'inner return', 'go back in', 'central return' or 'the center returns' (the balance, see Hertzer).

62.  Xiao3 Guò small mistake

63. 

64.