OFFICE OF THE RECORDS — PATTERN FILE
PATTERN 20-43
ACTIVECONTEMPLATION resolving to BREAKTHROUGH. Filed under: honest criticism posted, the gate thronged, breakthrough through reflection.
INDEX ENTRY — ON FILE BEFORE EVERY INCIDENT BELOW
行堯欽德，養賢致福；眾英積聚，國無寇賊。
Practice Yao's reverent virtue and nourish the worthy: the talented mass together, and the state has no bandits within it.
published fragment: Jiaoshi Yilin, c. 40 BC — the entry predates all surviving copies
LOGGED OCCURRENCES
- MYTHIC ERAYao's courtyard
Yao's courtyard — the first gate that thronged like a market. Filed under the pattern's earlier run.
- REIGN OF KING WEI OF QI (356-320 BC)The Morning Market
Following the mirror finding (see entry 012), King Wei posted rewards for criticism in three grades: to the face, in writing, in the marketplace. Months one to three: the palace gate thronged like a market. Filed as ENTRY 022/64.
- 1965THE CRITIQUE THAT THRONGED THE GATE THEN EMPTIED IT
Yao Wenyuan published a critique of Wu Han's play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office in November 1965. Every provincial newspaper reprinted it within a month. The gate that had welcomed honest criticism now processed only denunciations. By year's end, the market was open but had no wares.
Cited by card ENTRY 022/64 · The Morning Market — The Records, Deck 1.
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