Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, the 25th day of the seventh lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Shuiretun（䷂）

The Book of Changes3 The hexagram indicates that when the upper hurdle (water) shakes and the lower thunder (lightning) strikes, the combination of clouds and thunder creates difficulties in maintenance.

Hexagram revelation:Spring thunder accumulates strength in the dark clouds, and although the rain has not yet poured, it has already brewed vitality, symbolizing the coexistence of difficulties and hope in the birth of all things.The 'Shuiretun' showcases the initial struggle and hope of natural life. It symbolizes that the beginning of everything is difficult, and new things will inevitably face numerous challenges in the budding stage. Only by sticking to the right path in difficulties, carefully planning, and accumulating strength, can we break through difficulties, lay the foundation for future growth, and ultimately achieve a transformation from scratch.

April showers bring May flowers.

today in historyShrimp painted by Qi Baishi

one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven

Year 9Month 16dayMaster of Chinese PaintingQi Baishipass awayQi Baishi, a modern Chinese calligrapher, painter, and seal engraver, andHuang Binhongcollectively known asSouthern Yellow and Northern Qi. In his early years, he worked as a carpenter and later made a living by selling paintings. At the age of 57, he settled in Beijing. Skilled in painting flowers, birds, insects, fish, landscapes, and figures, with powerful and rich brushstrokes, bright and vibrant colors, concise and vivid shapes, and a simple and sincere artistic conception. The fish, shrimp, insects, and crabs are full of natural charm.Qi Baishi was skilled in seal script and clerical script, drawing inspiration from the inscriptions of the Qin and Han dynasties. His running script exudes an ancient and clumsy charm, and his calligraphy is comparable to that of figures such as Youren, Li Zhimin, and Sha Menghai, with strong and simple strokes. Seal carving is unique and skilled in writing poetry and prose. Formerly served as an honorary professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of the China Artists Association. Representative works include《

The sound of frogs comes from the mountain spring ten miles away》He has written works such as "Ink Shrimp" and "Baishi Poetry Grass" and "Baishi Old Man's Autobiography".The strong local flavor, simple peasant consciousness, innocent and romantic childlike innocence, and poetic aftertaste are the inner life of Qi Baishi's art. The lively and bright colors, strong contrast between ink and color, simple and naive shapes and brushstrokes, extreme synthesis of work and writing, and ordinary and extraordinary composition, as Qi Baishi's unique artistic language and visual shape, are relatively the external life of Qi Baishi's art. The emotional demands of reality require forms that are compatible with them, and these forms strengthen the expression of emotions. The two require, arise, and depend on each other, together forming the artistic life of Qi Baishi, that is, the overall style of Qi Baishi's art.

浓厚的乡土气息，纯朴的农民意识和天真浪漫的童心，富有余味的诗意，是齐白石艺术的内在生命，而那热烈明快的色彩，墨与色的强烈对比，浑朴稚拙的造型和笔法，工与写的极端合成，平正见奇的构成，作为齐白石独特的艺术语言和视觉形状，相对而言则是齐白石艺术的外在生命。现实的情感要求与之相适应的形式，而这形式又强化了情感的表现，两者相互需求、相互生发、相互依存，共同构成了齐白石的艺术生命，即齐白石艺术的总体风格。