The fifth line of Coming to Meet (King Wen 44) is drawn as yang, the numeral nine in the old divination manuals. James Legge's translation renders the line as a medlar tree overspreading a melon beneath it, and if he keeps his brilliant qualities concealed a good issue descends as if from heaven. 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 middle place of the upper trigram Qian, heaven in Legge's readings of the eight trigrams, while the lower trigram of the hexagram is Xun, wind 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 fifth 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 Qian is either forming (in the lower trigram) or completing itself (in the upper), and later interpreters treat its image, The Medlar Tree Overspreading a Melon Beneath It, as the concrete case through which the hexagram's abstract judgment becomes visible in a single situation rather than a general principle.