Zhong Fu · Inner Truth

The meaning

What the name means Zhong Fu is sincerity in the heart; fu is also hatching.

The picture Wind over a lake, the surface of the water stirred lightly, hollow inside and yet full.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about good faith. Treat people with a true heart: the text says even a pig and a fish can be moved by it. Good faith is built up one time at a time.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Honest within, trusting each other. Sincerity works better than skill: whoever you trust, let them feel trusted too.

The upper trigram is Wind and the lower is Lake: Wind above, Lake below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

豚魚吉，利涉大川，利貞。

The image

澤上有風，中孚；君子以議獄緩死。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初九虞吉，有它不燕。
2. 九二鳴鶴在陰，其子和之。我有好爵，吾與爾靡之。
3. 六三得敵，或鼓或罷，或泣或歌。
4. 六四月幾望，馬匹亡，無咎。
5. 九五有孚攣如，無咎。
6. 上九翰音登於天，貞兇。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".