Grace — beauty, form, and tasteful adornment.
The time favors form, elegance, and the refinement of appearances. Grace adorns substance but can never replace it, so keep ornament modest. Beauty should serve, not rule.
beautygracerefinementform
Grace places Mountain (still, resting) above Fire (clinging, light-giving). The interplay of these two trigrams gives the hexagram its character.
The Classical Textoriginal Chinese
The Judgment · 卦辞
亨。小利有攸往。
The Image · 大象
山下有火，贲；君子以明庶政，无敢折狱。
The Six Lines · 爻辞
- 初九贲其趾，舍车而徒。象曰：舍车而徒，义弗乘也。
- 六二贲其须。象曰：贲其须，与上兴也。
- 九三贲如濡如，永贞吉。象曰：永贞之吉，终莫之陵也。
- 六四贲如皤如，白马翰如，匪寇婚媾。象曰：六四，当位疑也。匪寇婚媾，终无尤也。
- 六五贲于丘园，束帛戋戋，吝，终吉。象曰：六五之吉，有喜也。
- 上九白贲，无咎。象曰：白贲无咎，上得志也。
The judgment, image and line texts above are quoted from the original Zhou Yi. A modern Chinese translation of the full classic is available on the original-text page.