Friday, November 28th, 2025, the ninth day of the tenth lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Di Huo Ming Yi（䷣）

The Book of ChangesNo.thirty-sixHexagram, up Kun (earth) and down Li (fire), the sun disappears into the earth, nurturing light.

Hexagram revelation:'Ming' refers to the brightness, wisdom, and talent represented by the departure from fire, while 'Yi' means concealment and damage, which together metaphorically refers to the situation of 'light fading away'. The heavy and inclusive nature of the universe in the hexagram covers the intense and bright light below, forming a concrete manifestation of "the sun entering the earth and the light hiding in darkness" - although the fire is underground, it has not been extinguished, only temporarily converging its light, waiting for the opportunity to see the light again. This is the core wisdom of the Mingyi hexagram: the hidden endurance in adversity is not depression, but a survival strategy of retreat as progress. Life inevitably encounters moments of enlightenment, only by understanding the profound meaning of 'hardship and chastity' can one remain clear in the darkness, accumulate potential energy in the trough, and wait for the wind to come to let the hidden light illuminate the way forward.

Being poor and persevering, never succumbing to the aspirations of the blue clouds.

——Wang Bo《Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng How to translate

today in historyPortrait of Liu Zongyuan

eight hundred and nineteen

yearelevenmoontwenty-eightOn the day,Tang Dynasty literatiLiu ZongyuanPassed away.His courtesy name is thick, and he is known asPassed awayLiuhedong. An outstanding literary figure, philosopher, and thinker of the Tang Dynasty, one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties". He and Han Yu jointly advocated the "Classical Prose Movement" of the Tang Dynasty, opposing the flashy parallel prose and advocating that articles should "clarify the Tao through literature", restoring the simple tradition of prose in the pre Qin and Han dynasties.His literary achievements are outstanding. His mountain and water travelogues, such as "The Eight Records of Yongzhou" and "The Little Stone Pond", are clear and profound, embodying his political frustration and indignation, and are regarded as role models for future generations. Fables and skits such as "The Three Precepts," "The Donkey of Guizhou," and "The Mouse of the Yongmou Clan" satirize current problems and are concise and powerful. Poetry like 'River Snow' has a lofty artistic conception and has been passed down through the ages. The philosophical works "Tian Shuo" and "Feudalism" reflect his simple materialist ideas.

Liu Zongyuan was the actual founder of the ancient prose movement, and his creative practice greatly enriched the treasure trove of ancient prose, promoting the innovation and development of the prose genre. His works not only have extremely high literary value, but also contain profound ideological and social critical spirit, which has had a profound impact on later literati such as Su Shi. He was demoted to Yongzhou and Liuzhou for a long time, and eventually passed away while serving in Liuzhou. He is known as

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