Notable Person: Qu Yuan 屈原
Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was a poet from the state of Chu. He was aware of Qin’s desire to take over his state and plead with the leaders of Chu to protect themselves from an invasion. He wanted Chu to unite with other states in order to achieve a better degree of protection, but they ignored his pleas. This wanting to unite for protection goes with the monkey and the Bladder’s connection to all of the other organs as it moves down the Shu points of the back. It also points towards the protection aspects of the Taiyang layer.
When no one would listen to Qu Yuan, he drown himself in the Qing River, and it is said that the people loved him so much that they came and scared the fish from the water so that they would not eat his body. The Bladder has an association with the pathology of suicide here, as well as with the Hexagram, in terms of the killing and cutting away.
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