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鼎

№ 50 · form and receptivity

The Cauldron

Hexagram The Cauldron shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

transformationtransitionmeasure

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

鼎：元吉，亨。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

The Cauldron: great auspiciousness. Free passage.

鼎 is the ritual bronze tripod/cauldron; “Треножник” emphasizes the vessel form but the Chinese remains visible.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-50-guaci · sha256:d34bfdd6739d2c10d5f5304002c297c3647cd3dc12fafe97309eac378e97a300

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六：鼎颠趾，利出否，得妾以其子，无咎。

Initial Six: the cauldron overturns its legs. It is beneficial to empty out what is bad. Taking a concubine because of her son: no blame.

否 is read as what is bad/impure in the vessel context; the household arrangement is historical source language.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

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Line 2 · 爻辭

九二：鼎有实，我仇有疾，不我能即，吉。

Nine in the Second: the cauldron has substance. My counterpart has an ailment and cannot approach me. Auspicious.

仇 can denote a counterpart, mate, or enemy. The final baseline keeps the neutral “counterpart” in English and uses a compact compound in Russian while leaving the semantic alternatives explicit in this note.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: nofinal correction appliedtranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

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Line 3 · 爻辭

九三：鼎耳革，其行塞，雉膏不食，方雨亏悔，终吉。

Nine in the Third: the cauldron’s ears are changed; its movement is blocked. The pheasant fat is not eaten. When rain comes, regret diminishes. In the end, auspicious.

鼎耳革 is difficult in material mechanics; the draft stays literal rather than inventing a specific repair process.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

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Line 4 · 爻辭

九四：鼎折足，覆公𫗧，其形渥，凶。

Nine in the Fourth: the cauldron breaks a leg and overturns the duke’s food. Its form is drenched. Misfortune.

The rare 𫗧/餗 witness hotspot and 形渥 make this line high-priority; the draft translates the scene without normalizing the Chinese evidence.

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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：鼎黄耳金铉，利贞。

Six in the Fifth: the cauldron has yellow ears and a metal carrying bar. Constancy is beneficial.

铉 is the carrying bar/ring apparatus of the ding; “перекладина” is approximate.

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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-50-line-5 · sha256:829745adc01a95385f6af307a8f4caeb7959456f66cefdac29ffe5c7b6906d7e

Line 6 · 爻辭

上九：鼎玉铉，大吉，无不利。

Top Nine: the cauldron has a jade carrying bar. Great auspiciousness; nothing is unfavorable.

玉鉉 names a jade component/lifting bar of the ritual cauldron. The material-object gloss is kept concrete and should be checked against specialist bronze-vessel terminology.

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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

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Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of transformation: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • • First read The Cauldron as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a The Cauldron day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, The Cauldron asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • • Which small step fits the timing?
  • • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “The Cauldron” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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