{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic23_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic23_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic23_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ich/ic23.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from the *I Ching* (Book of Changes), a classical Chinese divination text, presenting hexagram 23 (Po/\u5265), traditionally translated as \"Splitting Apart\" or \"Decay.\" The hexagram consists of five broken (yin) lines beneath one solid (yang) line, symbolizing the near-total displacement of strength by weakness \u2014 mapped onto both natural seasonal decline (the ninth month, summer's collapse into winter) and political decay (small or corrupt men overthrowing virtuous leaders). The central interpretive argument is that the lone righteous person (represented by the single undivided top line) should not act but wait, because the corrupting force is temporarily too strong and political conditions inevitably cycle. The six individual line commentaries trace a narrative of progressive destruction \u2014 from attacking the legs of a couch upward to its occupant \u2014 except for lines 5 and 6, which reverse the pattern: the fifth line shows the yin forces rallying in loyalty to the sovereign, while the sixth (the yang line) depicts the ruler surviving, regaining popular support, and the plotters undoing themselves. The text is distinctive in layering three levels of meaning simultaneously: cosmological (seasonal change), political (court intrigue), and moral (patience as the correct response to overwhelming adversity).","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The I Ching, Legge tr.: The Y\u00ee King Text: Section I...","tradition":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","translated_text":null,"word_count":663}