What Is the True Meaning of "Harmony" (和)?
2008/8/14 8:03:14
When learning things, you must get the details straight. Just like now—there are still countless people who treat the price holding above the top edge of a fractal pattern as the best buy point, yet they fail to understand that it's actually the opposite. This is merely a simple method for judging whether a pattern extends into a stroke. If we're talking about buy points, they must be identified from the perspective of trend types. Things like the top and bottom edges of fractal patterns are at most analogous to third-type buy/sell points. Therefore, using these as the basis for trading will repeatedly lead to the embarrassing situation where the second candlestick after buying is already the turning point. The logic is simple: setting aside inclusion relationships, 6 candlesticks can form a stroke. The one confirming that it holds above the top/bottom edge is at least the 4th, and the turning point is the 5th—what does that imply? Isn't it a very simple question?
Therefore, for any method, you must understand its scope of application—under what circumstances and how to use it most efficiently. Otherwise, swallowing things whole like this, it would be an injustice to heaven if you didn't lose money. The lessons also include methods of using fractals at different levels, employing interval-nesting-like techniques to determine buy and sell points—this is definitely not the same as simply judging top and bottom edges. Don't get confused.
Getting confused about stocks means at most losing some money. But if some basic concepts get confused and are then used as the basis for national strategy, that truly means the nation is finished. Take the character "和" (hé), which has been endlessly mouthed off about recently—it gets interpreted as laughable nonsense like "harmony," and is even used as justification for the so-called "peaceful rise." This is nothing short of bringing calamity upon the nation.
"和" means "to respond accordingly"—this meaning exists in the most basic Shuowen Jiezi dictionary. That it was ultimately castrated into the useless lumber of "harmony" is probably the best footnote to the long humiliation suffered since the Song Dynasty.
What does "responding accordingly" mean? It means giving the most appropriate action based on current actual conditions—in simple terms, constituting "mutual response and correspondence." At the most basic level: for trash and beasts in human clothing, you must thoroughly clean them out, not "harmonize" with them—that is responding accordingly. World history proves that "the rise of great powers" has never been "peaceful." Of course, it may now evolve into economic and financial warfare, but that's even less "peaceful." The so-called "peaceful rise" is truly nonsensical and laughable in the extreme.
The moment you want to "rise," someone will not let you be "peaceful" and will harass you from every angle. This is the most basic common sense and the way of the world. Trying to cover it up—who exactly are you trying to fool? Will the likes of America be swayed by your slogans? The only ones harmed in the end are yourselves.
To "rise," the "和"—the appropriate response—is struggle. Struggle does not necessarily mean large-scale confrontation. Struggle is inherently an art; it's merely a matter of whether you master it. On this point, there's nothing worth discussing with the likes of a certain Mr. Zhang who has mangled "和" into an orally masturbated version. Let them continue their oral pleasures. But this emperor's new clothes must be pointed out, so that more Chinese people know how this group runs around naked, mutually debauching each other to keep their vested interests flowing.
As for stocks, everything that should be said has been said—practice on your own. There will be no posts this afternoon; the next one probably won't come until tomorrow or the day after in the morning. My apologies.