{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic28_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic28_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic28_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/ic28.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from the *I Ching* (Book of Changes), specifically Hexagram 28 (*T\u00e0 Gu\u00f2*, \"Preponderance of the Great\"), presented in a nineteenth-century scholarly translation \u2014 almost certainly James Legge's \u2014 that pairs the classical line texts with analytical commentary. The hexagram's central image is a structural beam buckling under excessive weight, and its overall judgment is that extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures, but not ones that sacrifice rightness. Each of the six lines receives its own symbolic reading: a strong central beam versus a weak one, decayed willows sprouting new shoots or mere flowers, an elder spouse paired with a young partner, and finally a figure who wades into floodwaters until submerged. The commentary works through each line by analyzing its position (odd or even), strength (divided or undivided), and relationship to its correlate line, mapping structural features of the hexagram diagram directly onto prescriptions about human conduct under crisis. A distinctive interpretive move is the moral nuance applied to the final line: its subject fails catastrophically, but his selfless motive \u2014 acting for the benefit of all \u2014 earns him exemption from blame even in catastrophe. The text is aimed at readers interested in classical Chinese divination, cosmological symbolism, and the *I Ching*'s method of reading social and ethical situations through the geometry of broken and unbroken lines.","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":633}