Thursday, August 14th, 2025, lunar leap month 21st

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Dize Lin（䷒）

The Book of Changesauxiliary word for ordinal numbersnineteenGua, up Kun (earth) and down Dui (Ze), the earth is higher than the Ze, overlooking from above.

Hexagram revelation:The earth overlooks the clear waters and approaches all things with a tolerant attitude. We should emulate the virtues of Dize in our dealings with the world——Externally humble yet internally resolute, like the gentle spring breeze and gentle rain moistening everything silently, like the earth carrying things with great virtue. Ranze water is prone to overflow, and the earth's veins need to be stabilized. Supervision is not control, and education requires sincerity; Inclusiveness is not indulgence, and the people should uphold righteousness.Replace coercion with tolerance and sincerity, like soaking the earth in water, and win trust unconsciously. The core of this hexagram isLeading in closeness and upholding righteousness in flexibility, only by being down-to-earth and compassionate can we turn passivity into initiative and move steadily towards the future.

The people are the foundation of the nation, and the nation is peaceful with a solid foundation.——The Song of the Five Sons in the Book of Documents

Today in history  

Sign the Boxer Protocol

one thousand and nine hundredyeareightthe moonfourteenOn the day,The Eight Nation Alliance of Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Italy, and Austria captured Beijing under the pretext of suppressing the Boxers.eightthe moonthirteenThe Japanese coalition attacked Tongzhou, and the next day the British army broke through Guangqumen. Russian, Japanese, and other armies entered the city one after another, and the Qing army was defeatedAfter the Allied forces entered the city, they engaged in extensive burning, killing, and looting, 《Yongle Encyclopedia》The rare books were almost lost.one thousand nine hundred and oneAnnual signingThe Boxer ProtocolChina's indemnityfour point fiveA hundred million taels of silver were used to demarcate embassy boundaries, dismantle artillery batteries, and strictly prohibit anti imperialist activities. The Qing government became a tool of foreign powers, and China was completely trappedsemi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

This is a highly humiliating and turning point event in modern Chinese history,The Eight Nation Alliance invades ChinaIt is a symbol of the violent division of China by imperialism, whose atrocities have destroyed Beijing's economic and cultural foundation, pushed China into the abyss of semi colonialism, and exacerbated the national crisis; At the same time, it ignited the flames of national rejuvenation, laying the groundwork for subsequent resistance movements such as the Xinhai Revolution, and was an important turning point in the transformation of modern Chinese society.