Hexagram 28 · line 4
Preponderance of the Great
大過Dà Guò
The ridgepole rises. Favorable. Seeking other support brings regret.
Line statement
九四
棟隆，吉。有它吝。
The ridgepole rises. Favorable. Seeking other support brings regret.
At Line 4 the ridgepole rises, but the text warns against seeking additional support. Zhu Xi connects that warning with dependence on the first line. Changing Line 4 replaces upper Lake with Water above the same inner Wind, producing Hexagram 48.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes