{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic47_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic47_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic47_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/ic47.htm","summary":"This is a classical Chinese divinatory text \u2014 hexagram 47 (Khw\u0103n/\u56f0, \"Oppression\" or \"Exhaustion\") from the *I Ching* (Book of Changes), presented alongside traditional commentary. The hexagram's core meaning is constraint and distress: good principles and capable people are suppressed, much as a plant cannot spread its branches inside an enclosure. Each of the six individual line readings describes a different figure in a state of straitening \u2014 ranging from a man sitting on a bare stump to one bound at a dangerous height \u2014 with outcomes ranging from prolonged suffering to eventual fortune through repentance or sincerity. A notable interpretive thread runs through the commentary: the suffering described is not material but principled \u2014 the \"superior men\" represented by the strong lines are distressed because their virtues cannot find expression, not because they lack food or status. The commentary, drawing on the Khang-hs\u00ee editors and Confucian tradition, consistently emphasizes that action without inner sincerity worsens one's straits, while quiet cultivation and sacrifice-like integrity eventually bring relief. The text would interest readers of classical Chinese philosophy, I Ching scholarship, or anyone exploring how ancient divination systems encode ethical and political philosophy within symbolic imagery.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The I Ching, Legge tr.: Text Section II: XLVII. The Khw&#...","tradition":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","translated_text":null,"word_count":1071}