"This middle figure has two assistants on each side, and is unbiased in the middle. Thus five fits in well with the idea of the 'mean' always promoted by Confucian scholars," he has written.
「這『中』字有前後兩個輔弼，不偏不倚，所以『五』也就符合了儒教一貫『中』的主張了」，他寫道。