The first line of Coming to Meet (King Wen 44) is drawn as yin, the numeral six in the old divination manuals. James Legge's translation renders the line as tied and fastened to a metal drag, firm correctness brings good fortune, but if it moves at all evil appears, like a lean pig sure to keep jumping about. The image sits inside a hexagram whose judgment as a whole concerns a bold, strong female met unexpectedly; not good to marry such a one, since she should not be long associated with, and this line supplies one stage of that larger reading rather than a complete statement on its own.
Structurally the line stands at the lowest place of the lower trigram Xun, wind in Legge's readings of the eight trigrams, while the upper trigram of the hexagram is Qian, heaven in the same traditional set of images. The Great Symbolism of the hexagram reads wind beneath heaven; the sovereign delivers his charges and announcements to the four quarters, and the first line takes its place inside that combined picture of Xun below and Qian above.
Read on its own the line neither opens nor closes the hexagram's argument. It marks the point where Xun is either forming (in the lower trigram) or completing itself (in the upper), and later interpreters treat its image, Being Tied and Fastened to a Metal Drag, as the concrete case through which the hexagram's abstract judgment becomes visible in a single situation rather than a general principle.