We're almost at the end of the series on whistling in China. Just one more and then we'll discuss Transcendental whistling. This is a poem by Qu Yuan, c. 300 B.C. He asks a lot of good questions. This is a good preamble to the next podcast on the history of China.

We return to our second discussion about the I Ching with an added special guest, Nate. Joining us once again is Malsacrus Decisor. Both are I Ching experts.

Nate's Youtube page:

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Malsacrus Decisor can be contacted at:

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Silver coin flip sound: Thank you to L-Ayex at Freesound.org.

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More delving into Chinese philosophy as we approach the final episode on whistling in China--the phenomenon of transcendental whistling.

In this episode, I speak with the I Ching expert Malsacrus Decisor (AKA "The Vile Sage").

To get an I Ching reading, contact Malsacrus at:

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Malsacrus is now also the moderator of the Facebook I Ching Discussion Group.

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I'm back after a long hiatus. This was an article I found recently covering whistling in China.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b4dd/285195b4f1ad2160a02ef52bd84e876a4597.pdf

Let's keep it going. More of Laoze's Dao de JIng.

Let's avoid actual whistling for just a little while longer. This guy is all hat and not cattle (when it comes to whistling, that is. Not actual ranching). We are near the conclusion of a look into whistling in China, the place where I have lived for the last ten years. I am going to read the Dao De Jing for your listening pleasure. Is it profound. Can it guide you towards enlightenment? Can it at least help you lead a good life? Or is it just a bunch of gibberish? Well, you have to answer those questions for yourself. We will need it as background for the final grand finale on the subject of Transcendental Whistling. There is a method to my madness.

Following up on The Art of War by Sun Tzu, we look at a particular application where whistling is involved. It is the story of Jin Dynasty general and poet Liu Kun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Kun_(Jin_dynasty)

Hello Whistlers or Aspirants. We're gonna need some background for an upcoming episode on war and whistling, so I made my own mashup of some Librivox.org readings of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Maybe you've already read it, maybe not. If you want to hear it in its entirety, here it is. It seems to be common reading amongst businessmen and popular in general. We'll be talking about a military general and poet from the Jin Dynasty in an upcoming episode and we'll need a bit of background on military strategy. This may or may not help you out in your personal life as well. Probably not as much as learning how to whistle, but we'll see.

Sun Tzu said what?

https://suntzusaid.com/

https://librivox.org/search/?q=the%20art%20of%20war&search_form=advanced

More on whistling in China. The 啸旨 Xiao zhi, Principles of Whistling, is a method book for Daoist transcendental whistling. It's a rare how-to for summoning spirits and controlling nature. Or maybe it's just a book of tunes. I'm not quite sure. Please use it with caution; there's dragons and phoenixes and demons involved. It was translated and commented on by a woman named Evangeline Dora Edwards (1888-1957).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline_Edwards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_whistling

In the podcast I forgot to tell you what a li (里). A li was a measure of distance in China. It's about a third of a mile.

We continue with our study of whistling in China. The "Rhapsody on Whistling" (Xiaofu 嘯賦）was written by Chenggong Sui (231-273 CE).

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400864430.315/pdf

If you'd like to read along and not give an arm and a leg to buy the article, here is an online version:

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/rhapsody-whistling

More about Chenggong Sui and the Xiaofu on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_whistling