謙 → 恆

Commentary

Earth holds the mountain low, and prolonged yin rain drenches the roads into mud and slush. Merchants halt their journeys; the marketplace stands empty with nothing to sell. The verse paints a world immobilized by relentless downpour — commerce suspended, roads impassable, the economy frozen. From Modesty to Duration, thunder and wind sustain each other endlessly. Duration's lesson is constancy, but here constancy manifests as unbroken misery: the rain that never stops, the market that never reopens. The transformation reveals Duration's dark edge — when the unchanging force is destructive rather than stabilizing, endurance becomes entrapment. Modesty's lowland, which normally receives blessings, here collects only floodwater and stagnation.