Hexagram 48 · line 4
The Well
井Jǐng
The well is lined with masonry. No fault.
Line statement
六四
井甃，无咎。
The well is lined with masonry. No fault.
Line 4 repairs the well’s lining and assigns no fault to that work. Changing it makes Lake above Wind, Hexagram 28. The well wall and that figure’s strained ridgepole are two images of support under different conditions.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes