Hexagram 20 · line 1
Contemplation
觀Guān
A child's view. No fault for a small person; difficulty for an exemplary person.
Line statement
初六
童觀，小人无咎，君子吝。
A child's view. No fault for a small person; difficulty for an exemplary person.
A child's view is assigned to the yielding bottom line, with different judgments for the small and exemplary person; firming it changes lower earth to thunder and produces Hexagram 42.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes