Monday, October 27th, 2025, the seventh day of the ninth lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Lei Tian Da Zhuang（䷡）

The Book of Changes34 The hexagram states that the upper part vibrates (thunder) and the lower part dries up (heaven), with thunder in the sky, strong and vigorous.

Hexagram revelation: Thunder represents the power of action and change; The celestial sign represents strength and righteousness. Thundering in the sky, with a grand and majestic sound, symbolizes that things are in a strong stage. Only by mastering the power with the right path can we understand the principles of heaven and earth and achieve true growth. This hexagram is like an endless drumbeat between heaven and earth, inspiring and implying the law: true strength is a dance in shackles, bursting out in constraints and eternal in rules. When thunder rolls across the sky, it is not declaring conquest, but questioning——Is your power worthy of this thousand mile sky?

A little majestic energy, a thousand miles of fast wind.

——Su Shi's "Shui Tiao Ge Tou"

today in historyYan Fu and his translation

Tianyan Lunone thousand nine hundred and twenty-one

yeartenmoontwenty-sevenOn the day,Yan Fu, a modern Chinese Enlightenment thinker, translator, and educator, has passed awayYan Fu, originally named Zongguang, later changed his name to Fu and was born in the Marquis of Fujian. I graduated from Fuzhou Shipbuilding School in my early years and later studied at the Royal Naval Academy in the UK, where I had extensive exposure to Western social sciences. After returning to China, he successively taught at the Fuzhou Shipbuilding School and the Beiyang Naval School, and served as the principal. After the First Sino Japanese War, he deeply felt the danger of the country and turned to translating and introducing Western academic works to enlighten the people. In his later years, his thinking gradually became conservative.His translation achievements are remarkable, with his representative work "Tianyan Lun" translated from Huxley's "Evolution and Ethics". This book systematically introduces Darwin's theory of evolution into China for the first time,

The idea of "natural selection and survival of the fittest" shook the entire intellectual community and became a theoretical weapon for the Reform Movement.In addition, it was also translatedAdam·Smith's《Yuanfu》Montesquieu's "The Meaning of Law" and John Stuart Mill's "On the Boundary of the Rights of the Masses" have laid the foundation for modern China's understanding of Western political, economic, and legal thought.Yan Fu was the first person in modern China to systematically translate and introduce Western academic thought. Through careful translation, he introduced Western ideas of evolution, freedom, democracy, and science into China, greatly challenging feudal old ideas and awakening a generation of Chinese people, laying an important ideological foundation for the late Qing Dynasty's reform and the subsequent New Culture Movement. He is hailed as

The translation of "Pioneer of Modern Enlightenment in China" has nurtured numerous righteous individuals seeking the truth of saving the country.“中国近代启蒙先驱”，其译著哺育了众多寻求救国真理的仁人志士。