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The ideogram used to illustrate hexagram 51 is composed from two superimposed figures. On top, the ideogram Rain, which has become the general character used for the idea of meteorological phenomenons. The predominance given to Rain is due to its importance in the irrigation of terraced cultivation.
At the bottom, a character belonging to a group called Cyclic Symbols. These constitute two series of ideograms: the Ten Celestial Trunks and the Twelve Terrestrial Branches. These cyclic symbols are one of the oldest writing system of China. Their value is attributed more to their respective position than to their particular meaning, being used primarily to organize the sequence of a group: years in a calendar, arguments in a demonstration, chapters in a book…the symbol used here belongs to the Terrestrial Branches, cycle which organizes the hours in a day and the years in the zodiac cycle. It means Day, Period, Season in the sense of proper moment and is designated by itself without the ideogram Rain (Zhen.51) on the silk document found at Ma Wang Dui.
Associated to the Dragon and to the hours of seven to nine a.m, it means Dusk, symbol of the Beginning, of Awakening. When in composition with the ideogram Hand it becomes the verb To Stir, To Shake (as in the Great Image of Gu.18. It describes the strategy of energetic awakening necessary when an uncared-for situation has become Numb and risks being corrupted with time.
In the context of the Yi Jing, its historical allusion is doubled. It is the name of the commanding officer that the Zhou lent to the sovereign Wu Ding to submit a rebelling county, as is understood at the Minister level of Wei Ji.64.
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At the bottom, a character belonging to a group called Cyclic Symbols. These constitute two series of ideograms: the Ten Celestial Trunks and the Twelve Terrestrial Branches. These cyclic symbols are one of the oldest writing system of China. Their value is attributed more to their respective position than to their particular meaning, being used primarily to organize the sequence of a group: years in a calendar, arguments in a demonstration, chapters in a book…the symbol used here belongs to the Terrestrial Branches, cycle which organizes the hours in a day and the years in the zodiac cycle. It means Day, Period, Season in the sense of proper moment and is designated by itself without the ideogram Rain (Zhen.51) on the silk document found at Ma Wang Dui.
Associated to the Dragon and to the hours of seven to nine a.m, it means Dusk, symbol of the Beginning, of Awakening. When in composition with the ideogram Hand it becomes the verb To Stir, To Shake (as in the Great Image of Gu.18. It describes the strategy of energetic awakening necessary when an uncared-for situation has become Numb and risks being corrupted with time.
In the context of the Yi Jing, its historical allusion is doubled. It is the name of the commanding officer that the Zhou lent to the sovereign Wu Ding to submit a rebelling county, as is understood at the Minister level of Wei Ji.64.
Confucius