A New Interpretation of Broken Melon

(Anti-earthquake) Sui ①: Yuan Heng is virtuous and blameless. Day 9: There are more than 2 officials. Go out and make meritorious deeds. Sixty-two: As a boy, I lost my husband. Sixty-three: The husband lost a boy. Seek six interests and chastity with what you have. Ninety-four: if you have income, you will be fierce. Tao is a blessing, and no complaints are clear. Ninth Five-Year Plan: Fu Yu plus 8, Ji. The last six: detention is from the dimension of pets. Wang Attending used Heng in Xishan.

Note (1) The name of this hexagram is attached. Follow means obey and follow. All the hexagrams tell the story of merchants going out to do business and selling slaves. (2) Officer: The ancient word "pavilion" refers to buildings and hotels. 3 communication: communication, here refers to helping each other. Boy: This refers to young slaves. Husband: This refers to adult slaves. ⑥ Seeking: refers to the hope of obtaining benefits. ⑦ Ming: It is used as an "alliance" here, which means to conclude a covenant. ⑧ Jia: The name of a small country in Zhou Dynasty, also known as "Yuga". Pet-name ruby: binding Attending king: Xishan: refers to Qishan.

Translation with hexagrams: good luck, good fortune, and no disaster.

Day 9: something happened in the hotel, but it was lucky. It's good to go out and help each other.

62: Young slaves are caught and adult slaves escape.

Sixty-three: adult slaves are caught and young slaves escape. Going out to do business together is for profit. Jim's residence is a good sign.

It is ominous for businessmen to go out together for profit. Escort prisoners on the road and make a Covenant with each other. There is no disaster.

Ninth Five-Year Plan: The man who conquered Guo Jia, Geely.

Lock up the prisoner and tie him up. Zhou Wenwang offered them to the gods in Qishan.

Looking at this divination, the activity of going out for business is slave trading, which reveals two sources of slaves: one is business trading, and the other is prisoners of war. At the same time, we also learned that the lives of slaves were also used to worship the gods. These situations at least immediately reminded us of two points. First of all, from the perspective of modern humanitarianism, selling and killing slaves is barbaric and shocking, and it seems incredible today. Secondly, it is the bloody historical fact that colonialists sold and tortured slaves under the banner of humanitarianism in modern western history (both the novel Tamango by French writer Merimee and Uncle Tom's Cabin by American writer Mrs. Stowe have real descriptions). Looking at history from a moral point of view, it can be said with complete certainty that slavery is a dark, barbaric, cruel, bloody and ugly page in human history and should be criticized. However, we can also look at history from another point of view, that is, the attitude of historical materialism. From this perspective, slavery is the necessity of the historical development of human society. It has also made great contributions to human material civilization and spiritual civilization. Of course, the protagonist of this driving force is not slave owners, but slaves who are insulted and maimed by them. This point, the author can't think of it anyway.