{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic24_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic24_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic24_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/ic24.htm","summary":"This is a classical Chinese divinatory text presenting Hexagram 24 (F\u00fb/Fu, \"Return\") from the *I Ching* (Book of Changes), accompanied by a 19th-century Western scholarly commentary in the tradition of James Legge's translation. The hexagram's core argument is that return and renewal are natural and inevitable: after a period of decay (represented by the preceding hexagram Po), one strong yang line reasserts itself beneath five yielding yin lines, symbolizing the cyclical recovery of positive force \u2014 illustrated astronomically by the winter solstice, when the sun begins its return northward. Each of the six individual line readings prescribes a fate (from great good fortune for early, modest correction to catastrophic defeat for the obstinate who refuses to return to the proper path), offering a graduated moral lesson that timely self-correction is auspicious while prolonged error compounds into disaster. The commentary makes the distinctive claim that this hexagram encodes a philosophy of historical change: political and social decline, like natural decay, inevitably gives way to recovery, though the text explicitly resists utopian readings \u2014 \"there is nothing in the Y\u00ee to suggest the hope of a perfect society.\" The \"seven days\" formula is explained through a numerological sequence of six preceding hexagrams representing six months of yin's rise, with F\u00fb as the seventh marking yang's return, treating a day as a metaphor for a month.","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":875}