Thursday, July 3rd, 2025, the ninth day of the sixth lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Water land ratio（䷷）

The 8th hexagram of the Book of Changes, “The oracle bone script image of 'b ì'Two people walking side by side.shuo wen jie ziInterpreted as“Compared to each other, they are closely interdependent and mutually supportive.

Hexagram revelation: Up the ridge (water) and down the Kun (earth),Rainwater seeps into the soil, nourishing plants and trees,Water and Earthintimate，alsoEach has its own boundaries.oneThe character 'bi' displayseach otherbetweenofIntimate yet restrained, harmonious yet different.

The closeness of divination is a kind ofSelective intimacy "- treating each other with sincerity, but without losing boundaries; Achieving mutual success without losing oneself. It goes beyond surface unity and pursues' organic collaboration ': like water and earth, they are interdependent and each adheres to its own nature.

Nourish the heart with the softness of water, and carry all things with the thickness of the earth.

Today in history  

1876Shanghai Wusong Railway

exist149 years ago today, July 3, 1876, the first railway in China, the Songhu Railway, was officially opened for operation. The railway connecting Shanghai via Jiangwan to Wusong has a total length of about 14.5 kilometers. Its birth not only marked the beginning of China's modern transportation industrialization, but also reflected the humiliating history of China's sovereignty being eroded during the late Qing Dynasty. As early as 1866, the British ambassador to China proposed a plan to build a railway to transport goods from Wusong Port to Shanghai, but it was rejected by the Qing government. The British firm Jardine Matheson, unwilling to give up, established the "Wusong Road Company" in 1875 and illegally transported railway equipment from Britain to China to forcibly build roads. After nearly a year of construction, the Shanghai Jiangwan section was completed in June 1876 and officially put into operation in early July. The fate of the Songhu Railway can be described as tumultuous. Its subsequent reconstruction and demolition process not only witnessed the difficult struggle for railway autonomy in modern China, but also reflected the evolution of Shanghai's urban transportation system. The existence of this railway is not only an important milestone in China's modernization process, but also a historical witness to the forced intervention of foreign capital in the semi colonial background.