Exact classical source
风行地上，观。先王以省方观民设教。
Yarrow editorial translation. Wind moves over the earth: Viewing. Thus the former kings inspected the regions, observed the people, and established teaching.
Yarrow / Source Notes / 2026-07-17
Yarrow Image-to-Action note · 2026-07-17
Watch Real Use Before You Write the Rule
Read Hexagram 20 Guan as observation before instruction, then replace an assumed user rule with consent-based evidence from real use.
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Hexagram 20 · Guan · Contemplation
This page studies a supplied Xiang image. It does not claim this hexagram was cast for the modern scene.
Source image
Wind crosses the whole surface of the earth, reaching different places before any single lesson is imposed.
Concrete tension
A new rule is being drafted from a desk even though nobody has watched how the affected task is actually performed.
Visible modern action
With consent, observe three real users complete the same task without coaching. Record one hesitation, one workaround, and one point of confusion; only then draft or revise one rule.
Why this action comes from this source
The source places inspection of places and observation of people before establishing teaching. That order makes witnessed behavior the prerequisite for the rule, while consent and a bounded task prevent the modern scene from becoming surveillance.
Reflection question
Which rule are you writing before watching real use?
Audience value
Informative: it turns the source's observe-before-teaching order into a three-user evidence method with explicit limits.
Source boundary
The Chinese quotation is checked against Yarrow's bundled Yang Tiancai and Zhang Shanwen source text. Where that OCR witness substitutes a character, the page discloses the raw reading and checks the correction against a second classical witness. The English translation, objects, tension, and action are modern Yarrow editorial work. This is not a fresh cast, prediction, or promised outcome.