# 第 9 卦 · Xiǎo Xù (小畜) · Small Restraint

> **第 9 号卦牌（Steady）**：现在做小事，雨终会落下。 / Small steps now; the rain will come.

小畜卦如同密云不雨，力量在积累，但还不足以成事。此时宜以柔克刚，做些小的调整和准备，而不是强行推进。点滴的努力会慢慢汇聚，耐心等待条件成熟。

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## 卦辞

小畜：亨。密雲不雨，自我西郊。

Hsiâo Khû indicates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and success. (We see) dense clouds, but no rain coming from our borders in the west.

## 第 1 爻

初九：復自道，何其咎，吉。

The first line, undivided, shows its subject returning and pursuing his own course. What mistake should he fall into? There will be good fortune.

## 第 2 爻

九二：牽復，吉。

The second line, undivided, shows its subject, by the attraction (of the former line), returning (to the proper course). There will be good fortune.

## 第 3 爻

九三：輿說輻，夫妻反目。

The third line, undivided, suggests the idea of a carriage, the strap beneath which has been removed, or of a husband and wife looking on each other with averted eyes.

## 第 4 爻

六四：有孚，血去惕出，无咎。

The fourth line, divided, shows its subject possessed of sincerity. The danger of bloodshed is thereby averted, and his (ground for) apprehension dismissed. There will be no mistake.

## 第 5 爻

九五：有孚攣如，富以其鄰。

The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject possessed of sincerity, and drawing others to unite with him. Rich in resources, he employs his neighbours (in the same cause with himself).

## 第 6 爻

上九：既雨既處，尚德載，婦貞厲，月幾望，君子征凶。

The topmost line, undivided, shows how the rain has fallen, and the (onward progress) is stayed;—(so) must we value the full accumulation of the virtue (represented by the upper trigram). But a wife (exercising restraint), however firm and correct she may be, is in a position of peril, (and like) the moon approaching to the full. If the superior man prosecute his measures (in such circumstances), there will be evil.

## 出处

- [周易 · 中文原文（Ruism Digital Library）](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/9#9.1)
- [James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Sacred Books of the East, XVI](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/9#9.1)