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Etymology of the ideogram Sui.17
Three side-by-side ideograms are assembled to illustrate Sui.17. The one on the right itself is made with two symbols: at the bottom it shows the ideogram meat and above it a character which, associated with the symbol for hand and the one for set square means left (left being understood as the hand holding the square, the one helping the right hand). Associated to the symbol for meat this hand holding the square becomes an autonomous ideogram meaning carved-meat.
In the middle is the general symbol used to express movement. It is there to confirm that the action is that of carving the meat.
The ideogram on the left, representing a hill which was used during rituals, is a general symbol of abstraction. It is there to confirm that the rest of the ideogram is to be understood as a metaphor.
The entire assembly forms a character still much in use nowadays and which means: to conform, to adapt oneself in the most supple way to an outside influence, to acquiesce, to follow…
The Taoists have a representation to explain the double standard of Sui.17:
1. it is the flow which creates a structure (as carving),
2. it is the insertion itself penetrating the void created by the flow.
It is more than likely to evoke this idea, a structuring flow, that the editors of the Yi Jing have chosen to insert it in the canonical commentaries, in order to describe wind following wind, wind whose superimposed trigrams confirms this application in the Great Image of Xun.57.
Confucius
Three side-by-side ideograms are assembled to illustrate Sui.17. The one on the right itself is made with two symbols: at the bottom it shows the ideogram meat and above it a character which, associated with the symbol for hand and the one for set square means left (left being understood as the hand holding the square, the one helping the right hand). Associated to the symbol for meat this hand holding the square becomes an autonomous ideogram meaning carved-meat.
In the middle is the general symbol used to express movement. It is there to confirm that the action is that of carving the meat.
The ideogram on the left, representing a hill which was used during rituals, is a general symbol of abstraction. It is there to confirm that the rest of the ideogram is to be understood as a metaphor.
The entire assembly forms a character still much in use nowadays and which means: to conform, to adapt oneself in the most supple way to an outside influence, to acquiesce, to follow…
The Taoists have a representation to explain the double standard of Sui.17:
1. it is the flow which creates a structure (as carving),
2. it is the insertion itself penetrating the void created by the flow.
It is more than likely to evoke this idea, a structuring flow, that the editors of the Yi Jing have chosen to insert it in the canonical commentaries, in order to describe wind following wind, wind whose superimposed trigrams confirms this application in the Great Image of Xun.57.
Confucius