重雷震動，恐懼修省
先看圖像，再讀文字。Read the image before the words.
洊雷，震
(The trigram representing) thunder, repeated, forms Zhen.
君子以恐懼修省。
The superior man, in accordance with this, is fearful and apprehensive, cultivates virtue, and examines his faults.
雷上加雷（洊雷）——震之象。君子由此體會：要在恐懼中修養自己、檢省過失。
(The trigram representing) thunder, repeated, forms Zhen. The superior man, in accordance with this, is fearful and apprehensive, cultivates virtue, and examines his faults.
先讀經文，再讀《彖傳》如何解釋卦辭。The received text, then the Tuan commentary on it.
震：亨。震來虩虩，笑言啞啞，震驚百里，不喪匕鬯。
震卦——亨通。雷震到來時心存敬畏（虩虩），雷停之後談笑自若（啞啞），雷聲震驚百里之遠，但主祭者仍能不掉手中的酒勺。震動是修養之檢驗。
Zhen indicates progress and success. When the time of movement comes, (its subject) will be found looking out with apprehension, and yet smiling and talking cheerfully. When the movement comes like a startling peal, he will be awe-struck on every side; but he does not let go his sacrificial spoon and chalice.
震，亨。震來虩虩，恐致福也。笑言啞啞，後有則也。震驚百里，驚遠而懼邇也。出可以守宗廟社稷，以為祭主也。
震，亨通。「震來虩虩」是因為恐懼能招致福祉；「笑言啞啞」是震過之後行之有度。震驚百里，是震驚遠處而使近處戒懼。能在震動中守住宗廟社稷，是真正的祭主。
Zhen indicates progress. The fear and dread it inspires brings about blessing. The cheerful smiling and talk afterward shows that there are rules of conduct.
六條線各有一句判斷。閱讀次序初→上；卦象由下而上，看左側的卦。One statement per line, read from the first line to the top. The figure is drawn bottom-up — watch the rail.
震來虩虩，後笑言啞啞，吉。
雷震來時心存敬畏，雷震過後談笑自若——吉。
The first NINE shows its subject, when the movement approaches, looking out with apprehension, and afterwards smiling and talking cheerfully. There will be good fortune.
震來虩虩，恐致福也。後笑言啞啞，後有則也。
震來虩虩，是恐懼能致福。後笑言啞啞，是事後行之有則。
震來厲，億喪貝，躋于九陵，勿逐，七日得。
雷震來時很厲害，可能丟掉錢財，登上九重山陵躲避——不要追，七日後自會得回。
The second SIX shows its subject, when the movement approaches, in a position of peril. He judges it better to let go the articles in his possession, and to ascend a very lofty height. There is no occasion to pursue after (the things he has let go); in seven days he will find them.
震來厲，乘剛也。
震來之厲，是因為乘於剛爻之上。
震蘇蘇，震行無眚。
雷震使人精神恢復清醒——在震動中行動不會有災。
The third SIX shows its subject distraught amid the startling movements going on. If those movements stir him up to right action, there will be no error.
震蘇蘇，位不當也。
震蘇蘇，是因為位置不當。
震遂泥。
雷震陷入泥中——剛爻被陰所掩，雷之動勢被消解。
The fourth NINE shows its subject, amid the startling movements, supinely sinking deeper in the mud.
震遂泥，未光也。
震遂泥，是其德未能發揚光大。
震往來厲，億無喪有事。
雷震來去都有險，但能守住自己之事不喪失。
The fifth SIX shows its subject going and coming amidst the startling movements (of the time), and always in peril; but perhaps he will not incur loss, and find business which he can accomplish.
震往來厲，危行也。其事在中，大無喪也。
震來去之厲，是危中而行。其事在中位，所以大無所喪。
震索索，視矍矍，征凶。震不于其躬，于其鄰，無咎。婚媾有言。
雷震使人腳軟，眼神驚惶——前進凶。雷不擊到自己身上而擊到鄰居，無咎。婚配之事有口角。
The topmost SIX shows its subject discomposed amidst the startling movements, and looking around him with trembling apprehension. If he goes forward, there will be evil. If, while the startling movements have not reached his own person and his neighbourhood, (he were to take precautions), there would be no error, though his relatives might (still) speak against him.
震索索，中未得也。雖凶無咎，畏鄰戒也。
震索索，是中位未得。雖凶無咎，是因為以鄰為戒。
把象套到你的情境，取一個可行的下一步。Apply the image to your situation; take one practical step.
震·懼·修省
Thunder · awe · self-examination
震卦最大的應用：危機處世。卦辭「不喪匕鬯」是最高姿態——大震之中仍能保持自己的儀式、節奏、本分。讀此卦記住初九「震來虩虩，後笑言啞啞」的雙重姿態：震時敬畏，震過從容。
Crisis posture. The judgment's 'not letting go the sacrificial chalice' is the height of cultivation — keeping your ritual, rhythm, and duty even amid great shock. Two postures: awe during the shake, ease after.
九四「震遂泥」是現代人在動盪中最常見的失敗——不是被打倒，是陷入無止盡的「處理」與「分析」中，失了乾脆改革的時機。
Line 4 'sinking in mud' — the modern failure under stress: not knocked down, but stuck in endless processing and analysis, missing the window for clean reform.
王弼以為震卦的核心在「恐而後福」——人不能總在恐懼中，但偶有大震使人收斂、檢省，則福生。卦辭「不喪匕鬯」一句最深——能在大震中保持儀式之穩，是修養之檢驗。
Wang Bi takes the core of Zhen to be 'fear, then blessing' — no one can live in constant fear, but the occasional great shock that makes a person draw in and examine himself gives rise to good fortune. The deepest phrase of the Judgment is 'he does not drop the ladle and libation' (bu sang bi chang 不喪匕鬯): to keep the ritual steady through a great shock is the test of cultivation.
程子強調大象「君子以恐懼修省」——震卦不是教人「無懼」，是教人「在懼中修」。能恐而能省，方是讀震卦的正途。
Cheng Yi stresses the Da Xiang: 'the superior man, in fear and dread, cultivates himself and examines his faults.' Zhen does not teach fearlessness; it teaches cultivation within fear. To be able to fear and able to examine oneself — that is the right way to read this hexagram.
朱子直言：震為動，亨者通也。恐懼之心能致福，因為它讓人收斂；笑言之態見於事後，因為震之後行有則。學者觀此，知「敬畏」之為德。
Zhu Xi puts it plainly: Zhen is movement, and heng means going through. A fearful heart can bring blessing, because it makes a person draw in; the smiling and easy talk come afterward, because after the shock one's conduct has rule. From this the student learns that reverent awe (jing wei 敬畏) is itself a virtue.
震是雷。卦辭裡最要緊的一句是「震驚百里，不喪匕鬯」：雷聲驚到百里之外，主祭的人手裡那勺酒沒有灑。天大的動靜裡守得住自己的節奏和本分，修養就見在這裡。初九把全過程寫完了，「震來虩虩，後笑言啞啞，吉」，震來的時候知道怕，震過之後談笑如常。怕與從容各有其時：臨事而懼是敬，事過翻篇是定，先後不能亂。大象說「君子以恐懼修省」，突發的事嚇人一跳，也正好借這一跳把自己檢點一遍。
Zhen is thunder. The line that matters most in the Judgment is 'the thunder startles for a hundred li, and he does not drop the ladle and libation': the crash frightens people a hundred li away, and the one presiding over the sacrifice doesn't spill the spoonful of wine in his hand. Holding your own rhythm and your own duty inside an earth-shaking commotion — that is where cultivation shows. Line 1 writes out the whole arc: 'the shock comes and he is watchful with dread; afterward, laughter and easy talk — auspicious.' When the shock arrives, know fear; when it has passed, talk and laugh as usual. Fear and composure each have their hour: dread in the face of the event is reverence, turning the page once it's over is steadiness, and the order can't be reversed. The Da Xiang says 'the superior man, in fear and dread, cultivates himself and examines his faults' — a sudden event gives you a jolt, and the jolt is exactly the occasion to check yourself over.
Thunder; to shake, to startle awake. The trigram of movement.
The look of alarmed watchfulness — eyes wide, alert. Not panic; wariness.
The sound of laughter and easy talk — composure once the shock has passed.
The ritual ladle and the fragrant libation wine used in sacrifice — what the presiding officiant must not drop.
Again, in succession — thunder following thunder.
To revive, come back to one's senses — shaken awake rather than knocked down.
The look of darting, frightened glances.
Legs gone weak — trembling steps, unnerved.
震為八純卦之一（乾、坤、震、巽、坎、離、艮、兌），上下皆為震，象雷上加雷之動。震也是後天八卦的東方之卦，主春分、主長子、主動。
Zhen is one of the eight pure hexagrams (doubled trigrams). It governs the east, the spring equinox, the eldest son, and movement.
在京房卦氣序中，震卦守春分之節氣門——萬物震動而出之時。對應到人生，是「該起身的時候」。
In Jing Fang's hexagram-breath (gua qi) sequence, Zhen guards the seasonal gate of the spring equinox — the moment when all things shake themselves awake and emerge. Mapped onto a life, it is 'the time to get up.'
「震驚百里，不喪匕鬯」一句，傳統釋為長子代父祭祀之穩。古代王位繼承之大事，正在於子能否在大震中持儀。
The phrase 'the thunder startles for a hundred li, and he does not drop the ladle and libation' is traditionally read as the steadiness of the eldest son presiding at the sacrifice in his father's place. The great question of ancient royal succession lay precisely here: can the son hold the rite through a great shock?
震（51）與巽（57）為錯卦——一個是雷之動，一個是風之入。動而無入則暴，入而無動則弱。
Zhen (51) and Xun (57) are opposites, every line flipped — one the movement of thunder, the other the penetration of wind. Movement without penetration is violence; penetration without movement is weakness.
「不喪匕鬯」四字之意？為何能體現修養？
What does 不喪匕鬯 (bu sang bi chang) mean, and why is it the mark of cultivation?
為何震卦六爻中只有初九得「吉」？
Why is line 1 the only line that earns 'auspicious'?
用上六「震不于其躬，于其鄰」評論一個你看到別人遇災而自警的時刻。
Use line 6's 'thunder reaches the neighbor, not you' to comment on a time you took warning from another's misfortune.