The Joy of Kinship Shows When Need Arises

answered by The Book of Songs, "Chang Di" (Minor Odes)

기원전 11~7세기(주나라 시가 모음)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Little Women (1994)

dir. Gillian Armstrong · USA

Four sisters of utterly different temperaments and dreams pass together through years of poverty and war. They quarrel and envy, yet before any crisis they turn to one another first. How is it possible to remain one family while each walks a different road?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Do I take family harmony as a given backdrop, forgetting it is something kept alive by mutual effort?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

兄弟既翕和樂且湛

妻子好合如鼓瑟琴兄弟既翕和樂且湛

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

When wife and children are in accord it is like lute and zither played together; when siblings are gathered, the harmony and joy run deep.

💡 TL;DR

The Book of Songs likens the harmony of gathered siblings to the accord of lute and zither.

📝The Classic Answers

The Book of Songs likens the harmony of gathered siblings to the accord of lute and zither. Just as instruments of different sound become music when played together, sisters of different temperaments and dreams make a family's chord when they bear and embrace one another. It is easy to take this chord as simply given. Yet the whole process of sisters quarreling, reconciling, and cheering each other's paths is itself the labor of love. The direction of turning toward one another in hard times is what makes a family a family. To keep this chord I have taken for granted, today I carefully sound my one note.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Choose and sound one small "note" you can offer for family harmony today — an apology or an encouragement.

📖 Classic Source: The Book of Songs, "Chang Di" (Minor Odes). Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.