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闖華筵湘子談天養元陽退之不悟

闯华筵湘子谈天养元阳退之不悟

Chapter Fourteen · The Story of Han Xiangzi

Crashing the splendid feast, Xiangzi talks of Heaven;Taught to keep his primal yang, Han Yu does not awaken

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: at a banquet on a hall terrace, an official points as he poses a verse couplet and a stout old scholar throws up his hands in alarm, while on the paving below a tall white crane answers with its beak open and a laughing young Daoist in a patched robe, a drum under his arm, gestures toward it.

三五一都三個字,古今明者實然稀。

三五一都三个字,古今明者实然稀。

Three, five, one — just three words in all;few indeed, in ancient times or now, have understood them.

東三南二同成五,北一西方四共之。

东三南二同成五,北一西方四共之。

East’s three and south’s two together make five;north’s one and the west’s four make five as well.

戊己自居生數五,三家相見結嬰兒。

戊己自居生数五,三家相见结婴儿。

Wu and ji hold the generating number five on their own;when the three families meet, they form the Infant.

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