Hexagram 28 · line 2
Preponderance of the Great
大過Dà Guò
A withered poplar sends out a root shoot. An old man takes a young wife. Nothing is without benefit.
Line statement
九二
枯楊生稊，老夫得其女妻，无不利。
A withered poplar sends out a root shoot. An old man takes a young wife. Nothing is without benefit.
Line 2 pairs a withered poplar's new shoot with an old man and a young wife. This is a received Zhou image, not a modern prescription. The line's change makes Mountain below Lake and yields Hexagram 31.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes