While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.

Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.

Because Petty Fal Lou fuels the mischief.

Boom!

Mom says that Petty for Lou is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones. She knows best, most of the time.

Fueling mischief with petty flu.

Hi everyone, welcome back to the China history podcast

Loslo Montgomery here with you again as usual last time we convened I gave an

overview of the origin of the eching and how it caught on quite quickly and fast became one of the many core elements of early Chinese culture.

I mentioned last time among the activities that Confucius indulged himself in in his last years

was the study of this very same book of changes.

As tradition tells it, Confucius was a 70-year-old man before he felt he was old enough, mature enough, and

wise enough to take on the study of the E. Ching, and he famously lamented in his old age

and the Luneu. The An elects of Confucius, the great sage said,

quote, if a hundred years were added to my life, I would give 50 to the study of the Eching and might then escape falling into great errors."

Confucius believed this work contained the moral wisdom of the ancients.

And for this reason, he truly revered it.

But he had to put on your miner's helmet

and go deep down to seek out its hidden wisdom. In adding these ten wings or commentaries to the Eiching, Confucius

injected a bit of yin and yang and philosophy into the mix and then combined it with the I-Jing's cosmology

that espoused the fundamental unity of heaven, earth, and humanity.

Tien-D-Rien, and because now humans were inserted into the cosmological mix the fundamental

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