Wednesday, August 27th, 2025, the fifth day of the seventh lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Tianze Lu（䷉）

The Book of ChangesNo.tenThe hexagram represents the combination of heaven and earth, with a high and moist sky and a strong and upright appearance.

Hexagram revelation:Tian Xing Jian, Ze Ju Bei. The sky reflects on the marsh water, forming a clear reflection, symbolizing that human behavior should follow the way of heaven and adhere to etiquette norms, just like walking on a swamp requires caution and caution. This hexagram emphasizesThe importance of "practice" - action requires down-to-earth, understanding the rules and accumulating experience in practice, maintaining a humble and awe inspiring heart, taking steady steps, in order to achieve stability and long-term success. Tianze Lu "reveals the dual wisdom of practice and standardization. Remind us not only to look up at the stars, but also to look down at the road. Every step is a deepening of cognition and a tempering of morality. Only by being steadfast, steady, and upright can we walk a solid path on the "land of confusion" in life and reach the other side of brightness.

To restrain oneself and restore propriety is benevolence. One day of self-restraint and returning to propriety, the world will return to benevolence.

——The Analects: Yan Yuan

Today in history  

Liu Xiang won the championship at the 2004 Athens Olympics

two thousand and fouryeareightmoontwenty-sevenOn the day of the Athens Olympics, Chinese track and field athlete Liu Xiang competed in the men's track and field event at the Athens Olympicsone hundred and tenIn the hurdles event, he won the gold medal with a time of 12.91 seconds, breaking the Olympic record and tying with WalesColin Jacksonatone thousand nine hundred and ninety-threeThe world record created and maintained in the year. This achievement created the best result for Chinese athletes in the Olympic track and field sprint event, and created a new history for Chinese athletics. This gold medal is also the first athletics gold medal won by a Chinese male athlete at the Olympics.

Liu Xiang is a symbol of Chinese sports and one of the most popular athletes in China. His success has inspired countless Chinese youth to pursue athletics and elevated the international discourse of Chinese sports.