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Etymology of the ideogram Jian.39
Two superimposed characters are used to illustrate hexagram 39. On top is a complex group and at the bottom the symbol for Foot. The upper complex group is itself composed of two groups: the symbol for Roof evoking All Under Cover and a group symbolizing a Fenced Window like the ones encountered on the houses of farmers (the physical aspect of this ideogram has maintained the physical similarity). This very group means Blocked, Obstructed, probably because of an old habit of blocking the windows for winter using a mixture of soil and hay to protect from the cold (paper was only invented in the first century of the Christian Era).
Combined with the ideogram for Ice it becomes the character Cold, as can be seen at the sovereign level of Jing.48; with the character Soil it becomes the verb To Clog, To Obstruct, as can be seen at the transition level of Ding.50 and, with the symbol for Speech it means To Shutter.
The title ideogram of hexagram 39 is therefore composed from the application of this idea of Obstruction to the notion of Movement. It evokes a Hindered Walk, Laborious, limping as in the context of winter blockage. However, what hinders progression is less an objective difficulty than our own approach of it. Actually, if this character is different than the one used to describe a Lame Person as seen at the transition level of Lu.10, and again at the entry level of Gui Mei.54, it is like the one associated to another deficiency, the Impaired Vision, whose symbol is the One Eyed.
This coupling between a Walking and a Seeing difficulty, systematic in the context of the Yi Jing, is also found in other Antique historical texts. It is manifest here in the opposing structures linking Kui.38 and Jian.39. In fact, the ideograms used to name these figures are assembled with the characters Foot and Eye. Within this context the relationship between Vision and Walking is noticeable in Lu.10, where are reunited the One-Eyed and the Lame approaching the Tiger.
…one who believes himself a tiger without its suppleness or its stance, nor with the precision of its eyesight, risks throwing himself directly on the obstacle…
This network wraps it up when we include sexuality in which the Tiger is the symbolic, as is understood at the Minister level of Yi.27 and which is also mentioned at Gui Mei.54, the other situation where the One-Eyed and the Lame are reunited.
Confucius
Two superimposed characters are used to illustrate hexagram 39. On top is a complex group and at the bottom the symbol for Foot. The upper complex group is itself composed of two groups: the symbol for Roof evoking All Under Cover and a group symbolizing a Fenced Window like the ones encountered on the houses of farmers (the physical aspect of this ideogram has maintained the physical similarity). This very group means Blocked, Obstructed, probably because of an old habit of blocking the windows for winter using a mixture of soil and hay to protect from the cold (paper was only invented in the first century of the Christian Era).
Combined with the ideogram for Ice it becomes the character Cold, as can be seen at the sovereign level of Jing.48; with the character Soil it becomes the verb To Clog, To Obstruct, as can be seen at the transition level of Ding.50 and, with the symbol for Speech it means To Shutter.
The title ideogram of hexagram 39 is therefore composed from the application of this idea of Obstruction to the notion of Movement. It evokes a Hindered Walk, Laborious, limping as in the context of winter blockage. However, what hinders progression is less an objective difficulty than our own approach of it. Actually, if this character is different than the one used to describe a Lame Person as seen at the transition level of Lu.10, and again at the entry level of Gui Mei.54, it is like the one associated to another deficiency, the Impaired Vision, whose symbol is the One Eyed.
This coupling between a Walking and a Seeing difficulty, systematic in the context of the Yi Jing, is also found in other Antique historical texts. It is manifest here in the opposing structures linking Kui.38 and Jian.39. In fact, the ideograms used to name these figures are assembled with the characters Foot and Eye. Within this context the relationship between Vision and Walking is noticeable in Lu.10, where are reunited the One-Eyed and the Lame approaching the Tiger.
…one who believes himself a tiger without its suppleness or its stance, nor with the precision of its eyesight, risks throwing himself directly on the obstacle…
This network wraps it up when we include sexuality in which the Tiger is the symbolic, as is understood at the Minister level of Yi.27 and which is also mentioned at Gui Mei.54, the other situation where the One-Eyed and the Lame are reunited.
Confucius