第22卦 · 山火贲

底本文字与中文阅读

亨。小利有攸往。
贲象征文饰美化。通达。可做小规模前行。然外表华丽须以内在质朴为本，不可本末倒置。
初九 贲其趾，舍车而徒。
六二 贲其须。
九三 贲如濡如，永贞吉。
六四 贲如皤如，白马翰如。匪寇婚媾。
六五 贲于丘园，束帛戋戋，吝，终吉。
上九 白贲，无咎。

English support translation

亨。小利有攸往。
Refinement brings success, though its benefit favors modest undertakings rather than grand ones.
Initial Nine: Adorning one's own feet — choosing to walk rather than ride in a fine carriage.
Six in the second: Adorning the beard — ornament that only has meaning attached to the face beneath it.
Nine in the third: Richly adorned, glossy and radiant — this brings good fortune only if it is paired with lasting integrity.
Six in the fourth: Torn between ornament and plainness, like a rider on a white horse arriving in haste — not a raider, but a suitor come at the right moment.
Six in the fifth: Adornment turns toward the simplicity of hills and gardens; the gift of silk offered is modest and small. It looks like a poor showing, but in the end it brings good fortune.
Nine at the top: Adornment stripped back to plain, unadorned white — no blame in this at all.