Monday, December 22, 2025, the third day of the eleventh lunar month

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Fire Thunder Devouring（䷔）

The Book of Changesthetwenty-oneHexagram, upward departure (fire) and downward vibration (thunder), fire and thunder stimulate each other, bite and make decisions, and break through obstacles.

Hexagram revelation:The two characters "bite" refer to biting and devouring, "bite" refers to closing the mouth, and "close" refers to "biting hard objects to make them close", vividly depicting the scene of "teeth crushing obstacles in the mouth, only then can they be closed smoothly". Teeth biting foreign objects to clear blockages is like using rules and actions to break through blockages and rebuild order.Devouring the HexagramIt is a symbol of "governing chaos and eliminating obstacles, establishing clear laws and regulations". Only by removing obstacles and distinguishing right from wrong can we achieve enlightenment, and this "removal" is not blind brute force, just like judicial sentencing, which requires fairness as the criterion and decisiveness as the means.

Hanging a balance to know flatness, setting rules to know roundness.

——Han Feizi

today in historyFabre and his representative works

Insect Chroniclesone thousand eight hundred and twenty-three

yeartwelvemoontwenty-twoOn the day,French entomologistlet-Henry·CasimirFabreCasimirbirth.French entomologist and literary figure, known asbirthHomer of the insect kingdom. He was born into a poor farming family in Provence, southern France, and obtained his doctoral degree through self-study. He devoted his life to insect research and science popularization. His representative work "Insect Chronicles" took time to complete30 Completed over several years, possessing both scientific rigor and literary artistry. Fabre broke through the traditional paradigm of biological research by focusing on direct observation and experimentation, recording in detail the instincts, habits, and life cycles of insects, and correcting many scientific fallacies previously.His research shifted entomology from pure theoretical deduction to empirical observation, laying the foundation for modern entomology; The Insect Chronicles is known as

The epic of insects not only popularized insect knowledge, but also became a literary classic with beautiful writing, pioneeringPopular science literatureThe precedent. His scientific spirit and humanistic sentiment have influenced countless scientists and writers in later generations.的先河。其科学精神与人文情怀影响了后世无数科学家与文学家。