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CENTER
Zhong1 means center, to be in the center, middle, among, medium, halfway. Pronounced as zhòng: to hit the target, to be struck. It is a picture of a banner (maybe an arrow) in the middle of a circle.
When the master of archery was teaching the sons of Kunti, he told them to shoot
a bird on a high rampart. He asked them one by one what they saw when aiming the
arrow.
One saw a rampart with a bird, another only the bird.
But Arjuna saw only an eye. He never missed his target because he was one with
it, he was in the center.
In the Yi it is part of the name of hexagram 61, but in
the other hexagrams there are only six places where it occurs, and two of them
refer to the sun in the center of heaven: noon. Three are 'moving
central' in 24.4 and 42.3 and 4. Lines at the 4th have to do with choice and
deciding. Moving central can be 'going halfway', 'avoiding any excess', but also
'moving in the center'. In 3.3 'center of the forest' is its most simple
use.
Moving in the center is being one with what one does,
or following the 'road of the mean', a combination of 'being one with what one
does' with 'avoiding any excess'.
China is 'The middle kingdom': the country situated in the center of the earth. For every people the own country was always the center of the earth.