Lu / The Wanderer
above: Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder
below: Li The Clinging, Flame
The fifth [six], divided, shows its subject shooting a pheasant. He will lose his arrow, but in the end he will obtain praise and a (high) charge.
Line 5, though weak, is in the center of the upper trigram, which has the quality of brightness and elegance. It is held to be the lord of the trigram Li, and lines 4 and 6 are on either side in loyal duty to defend and help. Then the shooting a pheasant is supposed to be suggested; an elegant bird, by the trigram of elegance. When an officer was travelling abroad in ancient times, his gift of introduction at any feudal court was a pheasant. The traveller here emblemed is praised by his attached friends, and exalted to a place of dignity by the ruler to whom he is acceptable. It will be seen how the idea of the fifth line being the ruler's seat is dropped here as being alien from the idea of the hexagram, so arbitrary is the interpretation of the symbolism.