Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 25th day of the eighth lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Fire Wind Cauldron（䷱）

The Book of ChangesfiftyThe hexagram states that the upper part is separated by fire and the lower part is separated by wood. There is fire on the wood, which is used to refine new life.

Hexagram revelation:The "ding" was originally an ancient cooking utensil, but later evolved into a symbol of power.Ding GuaImplies the meaning of "innovation and steady transformation". Fire represents brightness and refinement, while wood represents softness and nourishment. The image of "fire on wood" is similar to cooking food in a cauldron with firewood, transforming from raw to cooked. It symbolizes "using softness as the foundation and firmness as the use, gradually refining to achieve the replacement of old and new", with the core of "standing upright and establishing the new, accumulating solid and achieving far-reaching results". It reveals the dialectical wisdom of change and stability - it requires both breaking the old system and embracing the new, as well as consolidating the foundation and balancing rigidity and flexibility. Only by maintaining composure, consolidating strength, and reconciling contradictions in the process of change can we, like cooking all things in a cauldron, create our own "new flavor" in the tide of the times.

Refers to being poor for a salary, and the fire spreads without knowing its end.

——Zhuangzi: Master of Health Preservation

today in historyPeople's Daily reports successful explosion of China's first atomic bomb

one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four

yeartenmoonsixteenChina's first domestically manufactured atomic bomb in XinjiangLop NurThe nuclear test base successfully exploded, and the test was commanded by Marshal Nie Rongzhen on site. Scientists such as Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian led a research team to tackle the problem for ten years. In the face of the Soviet Union's withdrawal of experts and technological blockade, they relied on abacuses and hand cranked computers to complete theoretical design, verifying China's independent scientific and technological innovation capabilities,This laid the foundation for subsequent hydrogen bomb tests and the integration of missile and nuclear weaponsThis is a major breakthrough in national defense and science and technology.It marks China as the fifth country to possess nuclear weapons after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France, breaking the nuclear monopoly and blackmail of superpowers and building a strategic barrier for national security. The Chinese government has simultaneously issued a statement clarifying

The principle of 'no first use of nuclear weapons',It demonstrates a responsible posture as a major power.This achievement greatly boosted national confidence and consolidated

The spirit of "loving the motherland and self-reliance" of "two bombs and one satellite"It further proves China's institutional advantage of concentrating efforts to accomplish great things under extreme conditions, inspiring the unremitting pursuit of independent technological innovation.。它更证明了中国在极端条件下集中力量办大事的制度优势，激励着科技自主创新的不懈追求。