What does it mean that you don't have a high position, you don't have an assistant, and there is no outstanding person in the next position?

Interpretation: dignitaries have no positions, but there is no support at the top. Talented people have low status and can't get their help, so taking action will bring trouble.

Source: The Book of Changes in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Original text:

Shang Jiu said: Kang Long has regrets. What is it? Confucius said: you have no position, no people, and no saints, so you regret it by moving. Kanglong has regrets and is extremely close to the times. Gan Yuan's "using nine" means looking at the sky.

Vernacular translation:

The last nine words say: "The dragon that rises to the limit will be in disaster." What does this mean? Confucius said: "A high position has no foundation, and a high position has no noble people, so that it can be suppressed at the lower level without their assistance. Therefore, taking action will inevitably lead to disaster. " "The dragon that rises to the limit is bound to be in trouble". Yang rising to the limit symbolizes that the anode will flourish and will turn from prosperity to decline.

"Tiande" and "Pure Yang in full bloom", Yang will rise according to rank, Yang will flourish according to season, and six Yang will become Yin, thus embodying the principle of the operation of heaven.

Extended data:

Appreciate:

Gangua has reached the ninth level, and as far as the position of six hexagrams is concerned, it has reached the extreme, and there is no higher position to occupy. It is lonely on the top of the mountain, just like a dragon walking on clouds. It rose to the highest and most extreme place, looked around blankly, neither made progress nor degenerated, so there was melancholy and regret.

In physics, it will produce the effect of extremes meet. In terms of personnel, there will be a happy and sad phenomenon. So this idiom means that people do anything without careful consideration, without considering the final outcome and consequences, as well as various possibilities and changes, leading to failure and tragedy or tragic disaster.