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... The Duke of Zhou 周公旦, regent for King Cheng of Zhou 周成王, proclaimed an instruction to Kang Shu, the Kanggao 康誥 (a chapter of the Shangshu 尚 "Book of Documents"), and admonished him to avoid wine and women, because of which the last ruler of the Shang had lost his kingdom.
Source: Ulrich Theobald's Chinaknowledge
At: http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Zhou/rulers-wey.html
Hi, Grace:
Nothing bad, I believe, except if we have many disfavorable reasons for thinking so, and we havn't. Maybe we need more accurate details about the situation.
The first answer leads you to H.35 晉 jin4, ADVANCING, INCREASING, PROMOTING, FLOURISHING. The old character depicts two arrows getting its target. Be said that arrows had a phallic sense. The fact that arrows fall from above means that they represent blessings from the Heaven.
H.35 says:
晉
jin4
FLOURISHING
Of course, prior to having offsprings.
康侯用錫馬蕃庶
kang1 hou2 yong4 xi1 ma3 fan2 shu4
PEACEFUL MARQUIS APPLY GRANTED HORSES TO_REPRODUCE ORDINARILY
The Tranquil Marquis uses his received proliferous(1) horses(2) ...
晝日三接
zhou4 ri4 san1 jie1
DAYTIME SUN/DAY THREE JOINING
... mating (3) three times during daytime(4)
[STOP]
There is nothing telling if it is lucky or not, I believe it is LUCKY, if not, the Changes would have said WRONG or HORRIBLE!.
But who was the Healthy Marquis? One of the many sons of Wen Wang, but that's another story.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
All the best,
Charly
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(1) fan2 + shu4 make a two-syllabe word meaning PROLIFEROUS, having many offsprings.
(2) Maybe a gift from his grandmother or ancestress, the mother of the king or the Royal Mother. Of course, there is no explicite plural in the text, it also could be about ONE HORSE. Imagine it.
(3) Who, the horses?
(4) While there was sunlight.
Ch.
Wilhelm / Baynes 23.5:
Six in the fifth place means:
A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies.
Everything acts to further.
Here, in immediate proximity to the strong, light-giving principle at the top, the nature of the dark force undergoes a change. It no longer opposes the strong principle by means of intrigues but submits to its guidance. Indeed, as the head of the other weak lines, it leads all of these to the strong line, just as a princess leads her maids-in-waiting like a shoal of fishes to her husband and thus gains his favor. Inasmuch as the lower element thus voluntarily places itself under the higher, it attains happiness and the higher also receives its due. Therefore all goes well.
Wilhelm / Baynes
From Pauline Yu (page 20), available in Google Books:
Of course, not all the ten women were «favored» by the King at the same time. I believe that each waited her turn. An ordeal indeed. In comparison with which the three times during a daytime of Kang Hou was only a modest performance.
Ch.
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