Hexagram 4 · line 2
Youthful Folly
蒙Méng
Showing patience with the inexperienced is favorable. Taking a wife is favorable. The son can manage the household.
Line statement
九二
包蒙吉，納婦吉，子克家。
Showing patience with the inexperienced is favorable. Taking a wife is favorable. The son can manage the household.
Firm Line 2 bears responsibility for the inexperienced while allowing for their differences. If it yields, Hexagram 23 remains with only the top line firm.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes