Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025, 13th day of the tenth lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Shui Tian needs（䷄）

The Book of ChangesNo.fiveThe hexagram states that the upper barrier (water) and lower barrier (sky) are dry, while the clouds rise to the sky and descend at the right time.
Hexagram revelation:The original meaning of the word 'need' is' wait ', which means waiting and accumulating momentum,Shuowen JieziInterpreted as' Xu Ye, do not enter when encountering rain, stop Xu Ye ', it accurately echoes the core artistic conception of the hexagram. Clouds and qi gather in the sky, but they do not immediately turn into rain and fall, and are in a critical stage of "waiting for time" - this waiting is not passive stagnation, but the internal transformation of the strong energy of the dry path in the accumulation of water, like a seed silently rooted in the soil, accumulating energy to break through the soil, revealing the survival wisdom of "preparing to be ready".

It has always been a waste of effort to move forward, but today it flows freely.

——Zhu Xi's "Reflections on Reading Books"

today in historyPei Wenzhong

one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine

yeartwelvemoontwoArchaeologist Pei Wenzhong successfully excavated the first complete Beijing Man site at Longgu Mountain in Zhoukoudian on the same dayBeijing ape skull fossilThis discovery was named "Peking Man" (also known as "Beijing Chinese Ape Man", scientifically known as "Beijing Homo erectus"), which is a major breakthrough in the history of Chinese archaeology. This excavation relied on systematic archaeological methods and was completed in the cave accumulation layer in the core area of the site. The fossils are well preserved and provide a direct basis for determining the attributes of ancient humans. Unfortunately, these precious original fossils of 'Beijingers' are missingone thousand nine hundred and forty-oneUnfortunately lost during the Pacific War and remains missing to this day.but

The discovery of the skull of the "Peking Man" is of milestone significance, filling a key gap in the human evolutionary chain and proving that China is an important birthplace of early humans, overturning the traditional perception that "humans originated in the West". It has promoted the Zhoukoudian site to become a core of paleoanthropology research in the world, enhancing the international status of Chinese archaeology; Stimulating the domestic archaeological boom and laying the foundation for the study of the Paleolithic era, "Beijing people" have also become an important cultural symbol of ancient Chinese civilization.“北京人”头盖骨的发现具有里程碑式的意义，填补了人类演化链条的关键空白，实证中国是早期人类重要发源地，颠覆了“人类起源于西方”的传统认知。其推动周口店遗址成为世界古人类学研究核心，提升了中国考古学的国际地位；激发国内考古热潮，为旧石器时代研究奠定基础，“北京人”也成为中华民族远古文明的重要文化符号。