Huan / Dispersion [Dissolution]

above: Sun The Gentle, Wind
below: K'an The Abysmal, Water

The fifth [nine], undivided, shows its subject amidst the dispersion issuing his great announcements as the perspiration (flows from his body). He scatters abroad (also) the accumulations in the royal granaries. There will be no error.

Line 5 gives us the action of the ruler himself; - by his proclamations, and by his benevolence. Ku Hsi and other critics enlarge on the symbolism of the perspiration, which they think much to the point. P. Regis avoids it. Canon McClatchie has an ingenious and original, so far as my Chinese reading goes, note upon it: - 'As sweat cures fevers, so do proclamations cure rebellions.' Both of these translators miss the meaning of the other instance of the king's work.