Thursday, December 11th, 2025, Lunar October 22nd

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Landmine recovery（䷗）

The Book of ChangesNo.twenty-fourHexagram, the upper Kun (earth) shakes the lower (thunder), thunder in the ground, vitality reappears.

Hexagram revelation: Thunder is hidden underground, and although it is not yet manifested, it accumulates energy. When it appears at the right time, it can shake the heavens and earth, just like something that has experienced silence and regained vitality.FuguaThe core of wisdom lies in revealingThe law of heaven and earth, which states that 'everything will reverse when it reaches its extreme and go back and forth in a cycle', has constructed a development system that is driven by the principle of 'restoration' and guided by the principle of 'following the times'. Winter goes and spring comes, night ends and day arrives. The decline and silence of things are only stages in the cycle, not the end point. The return of yang energy and the emergence of vitality are the essential manifestations of the endless life of heaven and earth. Following this law can lead to walking with the great path.

A thousand strokes and ten thousand strikes still remain strong, allowing the wind to blow in all directions.

——Zheng Xie's "Bamboo and Stone"

today in historyWu Jingzi's

The Scholars' Foreign Historyone thousand seven hundred and fifty-four

yeartwelvemoonelevenOn the day,Qing Dynasty novelistWu Jingzipass awayWu Jingzi, styled Minxuan, with the given nameGrain peopleHe was an outstanding novelist in the Qing Dynasty, born into a noble family. However, his family's fortunes declined and he experienced the ups and downs of the world, which laid the foundation for his creative work.The representative work "The Scholars" is the most outstanding satirical novel in ancient China. In the form of chapters, it sharply criticizes the distortion of the souls of scholars by the imperial examination system through the portrayal of typical characters such as Fan Jin and Yan Jiansheng, and exposes the corruption of feudal ethics and social reality.

This book breaks through the legendary narrative of traditional novels and focuses on various social phenomena with realistic writing style, creating a new peak in classical Chinese satirical literature

The artistic style of 'Qi but able to harmonize, graceful and sarcastic' has had a profound impact. Lu Xun praised it as "a candle shrouded in darkness, with no object hidden". It not only provided a creative paradigm for later condemnation novels (such as "A Record of the Appearance of officialdom"), but also became an "encyclopedia" reflecting the social landscape of the Qing Dynasty with profound insights into human nature and society. It still has important value in literary research and practical reflection today.“戚而能谐、婉而多讽” 的艺术风格影响深远。鲁迅赞其 “烛幽索隐，物无遁形”，它不仅为后世谴责小说（如《官场现形记》）提供了创作范式，更以对人性与社会的深刻洞察，成为反映清代社会风貌的 “百科全书”，至今仍在文学研究与现实反思中具有重要价值。