Hexagram 50 · line 1
The Cauldron
鼎Dǐng
The vessel overturns its feet. It is useful to empty what is unfit. A secondary wife gains standing through her son. No fault.
Line statement
初六
鼎顛趾，利出否，得妾以其子，无咎。
The vessel overturns its feet. It is useful to empty what is unfit. A secondary wife gains standing through her son. No fault.
The overturned cauldron can be emptied of spoiled contents; the second image concerns a secondary wife honored through her son. Changing Line 1 gives Heaven below Fire, Hexagram 14. The comparison concerns what is discarded, retained, or valued.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes