Tun / Retreat
above: Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below: K^ en Keeping Still, Mountain
Six in the second place means:
he holds him fast with yellow oxhide.
No one can tear him loose.
Yellow is the color of the middle. It indicates that which is correct
and in line with duty. Oxhide is strong and not to be torn.
While the superior men retreat and the inferior press after them, the
inferior man represented here holds on so firmly and tightly to the
superior man that the latter cannot shake him off. And because he is in
quest of what is right and so strong in purpose, he reaches his goal.
Thus the line confirms what is said in the Judgment: "In what is
small"--here equivalent to "in the inferior man"--"perseverance
furthers."