Ninety-three: promoted to Xuyi. What is "empty city" is the key to understanding this hexagram. Some scholars interpret it as "empty city" and "no one's city", while others interpret it as "living in Kyoto". Although the literal meaning is understandable, it cannot be well connec

Jiu San: Shengxu Yi.

What is "empty city" is the key to understanding this hexagram. Some scholars interpret it as "empty city" and "no one's city", while others interpret it as "living in Kyoto". Although the literal meaning is understandable, it cannot be well connected with the main purpose of this hexagram - "sheng".

The upper part of the ancient glyph for "邑" is "囗" (wéi), which means city, and the lower part is a kneeling human figure. There is land and people, which means cities and towns. In ancient China, the princes granted their ministers and officials the title of Shilu, and the land was called a food town. The ministers and officials enjoyed the right to rule in the food town and assumed corresponding obligations to the princes. The "Xu Yi" should be a nominal hexagram town. According to the size of the hexagram food town, corresponding taxes and property can be obtained, but there is no right to rule these hexagram places, and there should be no corresponding hereditary system.

"Shengxu Yi" is to increase the nominal hexagram land for talents or meritorious people. It is a manifestation of treatment. There is no decentralization of ruling power, which avoids the possibility of the monarch's power being dispersed. This nominal hexagram is not fixed and can be adjusted and changed at any time. To put it bluntly, it is what is often referred to as performance reward in modern enterprise management. Those with high performance scores will naturally receive more rewards, otherwise there will be corresponding penalty clauses. On the one hand, the purpose of "promoting Xu Yi" is to exert the incentive effect, and more importantly, on the other hand, it is to cultivate a sense of worry.