What does the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" mean?

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Speaking of the Ninth Five-Year Lord, everyone knows that it refers to the position of the emperor, but why should it be expressed in two words, nine and five, we have to start from the Book of Changes.

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There is a saying that the term "Ninth Five-Year Plan" comes from the "Book of Changes". The current version of "Book of Changes" is said to have been played by King Zhou Wen, so it is also called "Book of Changes". "I Ching·Qian Gua No. 1": "The flying dragon is in the sky, to benefit the adults... The flying dragon is in the sky, and the ruler is also... The flying dragon is in the sky, which is the first hexagram of the sixty-four hexagrams in the Zhouyi. For Qian's hexagram, the Ganzhe symbolizes the sky, so it becomes the hexagram representing the emperor. The Qian hexagram is composed of six yang lines, which are extremely yang and extremely prosperous. Counting from bottom to top, the fifth line is called nine-five, nine represents this line is yang line, and five is the fifth line. Ninth Five is the best line in Qian Gua, Qian Gua is the first hexagram of Sixty-Four hexagrams, therefore Ninth Five is also the first line of Sixty-Four hexagrams, three hundred and eighty-four lines, and has become the aspect of the emperor. The "nine" here is not a specific number, but a symbol to distinguish the yin and yang attributes of the number. It seems that the nine-five years are related to the five elements and gossip.

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Another simple way of saying: In ancient China, numbers were divided into positive and negative numbers, with odd numbers being positive and even numbers being negative. Nine is the highest in the yang number, and five is in the middle. Therefore, "nine" and "five" are used to symbolize the authority of the emperor, which is called the "nine-five sovereign."

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"The Book of Changes" is one of China's oldest classics. It has always been revered as the first of the Six Classics and has a profound influence on all areas of the Chinese nation. Therefore, the term "Ninth Five-Year" comes from the "Book of Changes". letter. Do you all understand the meaning of the Ninth Five-Year Lord?

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