Hexagram 28 · line 5
Preponderance of the Great
大過Dà Guò
The withered poplar puts out flowers; an old woman gains a young husband. Neither fault nor praise.
Line statement
九五
枯楊生華，老婦得其士夫，无咎无譽。
The withered poplar puts out flowers; an old woman gains a young husband. Neither fault nor praise.
At Line 5, the received text pairs late flowering with an old woman and a young husband; the pair remains historical rather than prescriptive. Changing the line turns outer Lake into Thunder and produces Hexagram 32, Thunder above Wind.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 2: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes