# 第 23 卦 · Bō (剥) · Stripping Away

> **第 23 号卦牌（Pause）**：让该落的落下，守住根本。 / Let what falls fall; protect the core.

剥卦象征剥落与衰退，旧的东西正在一层层瓦解。此时不宜强行作为，适合守住根本、减少损耗、等待转机。衰落到底，新的生机也就开始孕育。

_站方编辑摘要_

## 卦辞

剝：不利。有攸往。

Po indicates that (in the state which it symbolises) it will not be advantageous to make a movement in any direction whatever.

## 第 1 爻

初六：剝牀以足，蔑貞凶。

The first line, divided, shows one overturning the couch by injuring its legs. (The injury will go on to) the destruction of (all) firm correctness, and there will be evil.

## 第 2 爻

六二：剝牀以辨，蔑貞凶。

The second line, divided, shows one overthrowing the couch by injuring its frame. (The injury will go on to) the destruction of (all) firm correctness, and there will be evil.

## 第 3 爻

六三：剝之，无咎。

The third line, divided, shows its subject among the overthrowers; but there will be no error.

## 第 4 爻

六四：剝牀以膚，凶。

The fourth line, divided, shows its subject having overthrown the couch, and (going to injure) the skin (of him who lies on it). There will be evil.

## 第 5 爻

六五：貫魚，以宮人寵，无不利。

The fifth line, divided, shows (its subject leading on the others like) a string of fishes, and (obtaining for them) the favour that lights on the inmates of the palace. There will be advantage in every way.

## 第 6 爻

上九：碩果不食，君子得輿，小人剝廬。

The topmost line, undivided, shows its subject (as) a great fruit which has not been eaten. The superior man finds (the people again) as a chariot carrying him. The small men (by their course) overthrow their own dwellings.

## 出处

- [周易 · 中文原文（Ruism Digital Library）](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/23#23.1)
- [James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Sacred Books of the East, XVI](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/23#23.1)