H^ eng / Duration

above:Tui The Joyous, Lake
below:K^ en Keeping Still, Mountain

The fifth [six], divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.

The weak fifth line responds to the strong second, and may be supposed to represent a wife conscious of her weakness, and docilely submissive; which is good. A husband, however, and a man generally, has to assert himself, and lay down the rule of what is right.