This article offers an in-depth interpretation of the opening discourse on the Dao in the Guanzi 'Neiye' (Inner Cultivation), analyzing the threefold nature of 'thorough and dense, broad and expansive, firm and steadfast,' its dialectical unity, and its significance for self-cultivation within the intellectual context of pre-Qin and high antiquity.

This essay undertakes an in-depth study of the 'Yi' ode from the Greater Odes (Daya) section of the Classic of Poetry (Shijing) through the lens of pre-Qin thought. It examines the philological origins of the character 'yi' (restraint), confirms Duke Wu of Wei as its author with 'self-vigilance' as its guiding purpose, and elucidates the poem's emphasis on dignity, virtue, its critique of King Li's misgovernance, and its enduring political philosophy and moral cultivation significance.

This article offers a deep reading of Jingzhe (Awakening of Insects) among the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, drawing on pre-Qin Confucian and Daoist philosophy, etymological origins, astronomy, and phenology. Through an examination of the historical renaming from 'Qizhe' to 'Jingzhe,' an analysis of how spring thunder rouses hibernating creatures, and the cosmic vision of the Zhen (Thunder) hexagram's 'the sovereign emerges from Zhen' in the Book of Changes, the essay reveals the critical threshold at which life transitions from dormancy to vigorous action, illuminating the ancient Way of bending and stretching to preserve one's being.

Argued across four dimensions — the judgment text, the line's position, cross-verification between the Classic and its Commentary, and philosophical meaning — this essay shows why the top nine of Hexagram Dayou (Great Possession) stands first among the 384 lines of the Book of Changes: 'Aided by Heaven, fortune — nothing unfavorable' is the only unconditional, supreme judgment in the entire classic, while the Great Treatise, speaking in the Master's own voice, supplies the operative mechanism for attaining such fortune — 'treading on trust, cherishing compliance, and honoring the worthy.'

This article offers an in-depth philological investigation of the passage from the Xici Shangzhuan (Great Commentary on the Yijing): 'The junzi, when at rest, contemplates the images and savors the texts; when about to act, observes the transformations and savors the divination.' It restores how the pre-Qin junzi attained existential security through apprehending the 'order' (xu) of the Yi, and internalized cosmic order into personal cultivation through an attitude of aesthetic 'savoring' (wan).

This essay strips away the veneer of divinatory numerology to return to pre-Qin astronomy and cosmology, offering a rigorous investigation of the true nature of the Six Conjunctions of the Twelve Earthly Branches — Zi-Chou, Yin-Hai, Mao-Xu, Chen-You, and the rest. It focuses on the astronomical 'conjugation' essence of the Six Conjunctions, and the philosophical implications — sealing and storing, sprouting and rising, refining and transforming, revolution and change — concealed behind their 'qi transformations.'