訟 → 恆
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
Line 3
六三 食舊德。貞。厲終吉。或從王事。无成。
Six in the third place means: To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance. Danger. In the end, good fortune comes. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works.
Line 5
九五 訟。元吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: To contend before him Brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上九 或錫之鞶帶。終朝三褫之。
Nine at the top means: Even if by chance a leather belt is bestowed on one, By the end of a morning It will have been snatched away three times.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
區脫康居，慕仁入朝。湛露之歡，三爵畢恩，復歸舊廬。
Qutuo and Kangju, admiring benevolence, come to court. The joy of sweet dew; three toasts complete the grace, then return to their old abode.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, but distant border peoples — from the outposts and the kingdom of Kangju — admire the central court's virtue and come to pay tribute. The 'Zhanlu' feast of the Shijing is held: three ceremonial cups complete the ritual of sovereign grace, and the visitors return to their old dwellings in peace. Kangju was a Central Asian kingdom along the Silk Road; the outposts (區脫) were frontier buffer zones between nomadic and settled peoples. From Conflict to Duration, thunder above wind persists without wavering. Heng's endurance manifests here as diplomatic constancy: virtue projected so steadily that even distant peoples are drawn in, feasted, and sent home satisfied — conflict transmuted into lasting accord.
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