頤 → 萃

Commentary

Mountain over thunder transforms into lake upon earth — Gathering, where waters converge. The water is deep with no raft to cross; amid such difficulty, how can one swim? Merchants lose their profits, and commoners are burdened with worry. The gathering of waters that should bring abundance instead creates an impassable barrier. Without a raft — the simplest technology of passage — depth becomes danger rather than resource. From Nourishment to Gathering, the transformation pools nourishment into an inaccessible mass: the lake above the earth concentrates wealth where no one can reach it. Gathering without distribution is hoarding, and hoarded nourishment nourishes no one. The merchant and the commoner suffer equally at the water's uncrossable edge.