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To the editor:
In light of the news we have been getting from China for the last month or so, I think it would be appropriate to quote in full one translator s version of the poem for this year in the Chinese prophecy which I have mentioned from time to time in this column, the T’tti Pei T'u. Charles L. Lee says in his book, The Great Phrophecies of China:
It is quite clear that it is the end of the game.
Seeking a false security and a temporary peace,
There are tears through smiling.
It is not distinguishable
Whether between ox and mouse or ox and sheep,
Though sheared it’s skin is still tough:
A real dragon will come forth.
Yellow River water .will not be yellow.
The first verse seems to imply that dictatorial communism has had its day in China. The rulers, however, are doing what they hope will keep them in power a little longer. But while they are dismayed by the turn of events, they try to put up a good front.
The second verse seems to say that presently one cannot tell the hard liners from the soft liners in the government, all are strongly conservative at this point. And that China, which has been compared to a sleeping dragon, is awakening. The last line is an idiomatic cliche which may be translated as "the times are out of joint.” It may also mean that the Yellow River is or will flow red with blood.
Each poem has an attached hexagram from the I Citing, the Taoist scripture which amazed Carl Jung, and from which Liebnits derived the binomial system of arithmetic which is the basis of all computer programming. For the year 1989 is “Breakthrough," and it sounds like a recap of recent events in Beijing: Exibition
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