This is Kūn (坤), the second hexagram. Six broken lines—Earth (☷) doubled—form the counterpart to Qián's creative thrust. The character 坤 contains the earth radical (土) and suggests level ground, the valley that allows water to gather, the soil that permits seeds to germinate. Where Qián initiates, Kūn receives and completes. Wang's scroll embodies this principle: the mountains do not assert themselves but simply stand, present and available. The rivers do not force their courses but follow the contours the earth provides. Wang Ximeng painted this vast blue-green landscape scroll at age 18 for Emperor Huizong. The sweeping mountains and rivers embody the receptive earth's capacity to contain and nurture all things. The Judgment states: "The Receptive brings about sublime success, furthering through the perseverance of a mare." Not the stallion's charging power, but the mare's responsive strength—moving when movement serves, yielding when yielding allows greater work to unfold. In Song Dynasty court ritual, when this hexagram appeared in divination, advisors counseled receptive devotion to larger patterns rather than individual assertion. The Image Text instructs: "The earth's condition is receptive devotion. Thus the superior man who has breadth of character carries the outer world." Wang's painting carries villages, forests, waterways, agricultural terraces—the breadth that can hold diversity without collapsing into chaos. In the I-Ching's sequence, Kūn follows Qián as inhalation follows exhalation, as valley complements peak, as the fundamental polarity from which all other hexagrams emerge through various combinations.