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Y thank you for thorough image list.
Is it known where the upside-down image of line 1 comes from?
I mean, being the bottom line, why not something just about legs or feet like “the legs of the ding are solid and true,” or “being grounded in mind, body, and spirit brings success,” or even "having nice legs covers a multitude of flaws ,” or something?
Hi, Iams:Yes, that's it, generally all on the ground! With such a lovely image of the ding, it seems a little unsettling to read the first line about it being overturned. Hence, wondering where "feet in air" idea might have come from? Maybe same category as "why" anything...but, thank you for thorough image list.
Is it known where the upside-down image of line 1 comes from?
Even a Ding can be cleaned without much fuss, even big respect-demanding things can be solved without too many ummm... cannotfindtheword
Even posts can be posted without too many cannotfindtheword
To turn Ding upside down is for pouring out the stale food in order to accommodate new material.
When line 1 moves to position 4 and exchanges positions with line 4, the Ding is turned upside down.
You forgot the concubine in the line...
Concubines and offsprings were seen as the paramount of happiness. For men, of course.
I am of the opinion that the text comes from visual features of the hexagram in every case. Hexagram 50 is the Ding because it looks like a Ding. The clauses of 50.1 are responses to the component trigrams read as a sentence.
☴ ☰ ☱ ☲
☴ looks like a ding.
☰ suggest the legs of a ding.
☱ looks like a ding upturned.
☲ means empty or bright and suggests cleaning.
Thus,
A ting with legs upturned.
Furthers removal of stagnating stuff.
For the second clause,
☴ ☰ ☱ ☲
☴ suggests gain.
☰ suggests male.
☱ suggests concubine.
☲ suggests having inside (the home).
Thus,
One takes a concubine for the sake of her son.
Hi, Iams Girl:...
Hi Charly – The imagery, words, and picture are so beautiful, enlightening! So, if I have the basics right:
Cauldron = sacred vessel = fertile woman
Standing Cauldron = fertile wife
Upside-down Cauldron = fertile concubine
Maybe still suggests that if one's Cauldron/Sacred Vessel/Wife (50) is barren (line 1, Cauldron empty), taking a concubine (because 1 & 4 flip) is practical, but if one's Cauldron/Sacred Vessel/Wife (50) is already child-bearing (line 4, Cauldron full), taking a concubine (because 1 & 4 flip) will not be the "paramount of happiness" in reality!
妾 qie4:
a concubine / ( in old China ) a polite term used by a woman to refer to herself when speaking to her husband...
辛xin1 above woman 女nü3 → concubine
辛xin1:
the eighth of the ten celestial stems / bitter / acrid / hard / toilsome / laborious / a Chinese family name...
Remnant Primitive, in context (1) an upside down person - (laying not standing, dead not alive, woman not man, going not comming, slave not free, bad person not good person) (2) sometimes possibly a crowbar like instrument
女 nü3:
a daughter / a girl / a maiden / a lady / a woman / a female // name of one of the 2 8 constellations...
Source: http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?submitButton1=Etymology&characterInput=妾
I am of the opinion that the text comes from visual features of the hexagram in every case. Hexagram 50 is the Ding because it looks like a Ding. The clauses of 50.1 are responses to the component trigrams read as a sentence.
☴ ☰ ☱ ☲ etc...
If I want today to taste like today, I must first clean out the residual old stuff from yesterday. Some days can add a positive flavor to the next day or possibly the entire week...
Sooo! (attached to old name), I see what you're saying. And...from the description of your dishwashing habits, also sounds like you could use a [HARD-WORKING GIRL / ALMOST A SLAVE GIRL = CONCUBINE] yourself !
Wives were maybe not so beautiful as concubines…
maybe more the concubine, better the love.
Of course there were phisical limitations, feeling bond, economical affordability.
But in the fantasy...
Hi, Bruce:... though purely platonic in nature ... possibly some enjoyable shared time ...
Maybe the chinese word for CONCUBINE only meant a WOMAN not in the role of WIFE.
Not as HOUSEKEEPER but only for ENJOYING SHARED TIME.
Your life, with a fully integrated body, mind and spirit, is like a beautiful Pearl, something to be cultivated, treasured, respected, and valued. In the end, the two pearls or three pearls or ten thousands parts of our bodies are just One Pearl. Not Two, One. The Two cooperate, integrate, interdependently merge, like lovers united, like Yin and Yang, like Tiger and Dragon combining forces to Energize the Cauldron of the One.
Source: http://www.egreenway.com/qigong/magicpearlqigong.htm#2
Mind and Spirit...the Two cooperate, integrate, interdependently merge, like lovers united, like Yin and Yang, like Tiger and Dragon combining forces to Energize the Cauldron of the One.
I tried to find more about the 'bronze brake'
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