{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic44_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic44_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic44_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/ic44.htm","summary":"This is a classical Chinese divinatory text with accompanying scholarly commentary \u2014 specifically Hexagram 44 (K\u00e2u/Gou) from the *I Ching* (Book of Changes), presented alongside what appears to be James Legge's 19th-century interpretive notes. The hexagram consists of six line judgments describing symbolic scenarios (a restrained carriage, a wallet of fish, a stripped pig, a medlar tree) whose meanings are decoded through the visual structure of the hexagram itself \u2014 five solid \"yang\" lines with one broken \"yin\" line at the base. The central argument is political and moral: that single yin line represents a cunning, disruptive figure \u2014 symbolized as a bold woman unsuitable for marriage \u2014 who has unexpectedly entered a position of influence and must be actively restrained before corrupting good governance. The commentary attributes this reading to the legendary King W\u00e9n, who encoded warnings against the encroachment of unworthy officials into the hexagram's imagery. A notably candid moment comes when the commentator, wrestling with the \"wallet of fish\" symbolism, admits the standard explanation \"seems farfetched\" but cannot devise anything better \u2014 a rare acknowledgment of interpretive strain in a tradition that typically presents its readings with confidence.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The I Ching, Legge tr.: Text Section II: XLIV. The K&acir...","tradition":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","translated_text":null,"word_count":931}