Thursday, July 17th, 2025, the 23rd day of the sixth lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Mountain Fire Ben（䷷）

The Book of Changestwenty-twodivinatory symbols，Up Gen (mountain) and down Li (fire), there is fire at the foot of the mountain.

Hexagram revelation:The firelight reflects the mountain, making the simple mountains shine with brilliance, but it may also conceal the true nature of the mountains due to excessive rendering. Ben Gua“Decoration” As a metaphor, it reveals the dialectical relationship between civilization and simplicity: moderate decoration can showcase the beauty of essence, but if one sacrifices the essence and pursues the end, it will be like a raging fire burning mountains, ultimately leading to emptiness.

Clever as a fool, eloquent as a speaker.

Today in history  

Nie Er

one thousand nine hundred and thirty-fiveyearseventhe moonseventeenDay, year onlytwenty-threeYear-oldmusicianNie Er passed away unexpectedly. Nie Er,one thousand nine hundred and thirty-threeHe joined the CPC in and joined the anti Japanese and national salvation movement with music as a weapon. In his short life, he createdthirty-sevenA revolutionary song,one thousand nine hundred and thirty-fiveIn [year], Nie Er took the initiative to compose the music for the "March of the Volunteers" written by Tian Han before his arrest. With two nights of intense creative passion, the composition was completed, and its resounding melody became the strongest melody of the Chinese nation's resistance against foreign aggression in the era.one thousand nine hundred and eighty-twoIn, the song was officially designated as the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, condensing the indomitable spirit totem of the nation

Nie Er's music is rooted in the people, with folk art as its foundation and the integration of Western techniques, creating a new form of emerging revolutionary music in China.Nie Er is praised as“The horn of the Chinese revolution, the drum of the people's liberationHis works surpass the times and remain a banner that unites the national soul to this day. His belief in awakening the people with art and defending dignity with notes highlights the core value of the left-wing literary and artistic movement led by the CPC——Art cries out for the people.