遯 → 井

Commentary

Heaven above the mountain descends into water over wind — the Well, the inexhaustible communal resource. Yet this well is empty: the old river has run dry, the ancient well contains no fish. Profit and benefit are meager; fleeing trouble to the eastern neighbor only brings disaster through one's own door, leaving one to regret surviving at all. Every image is of exhausted resources and failed escape — the well that should sustain yields nothing, and the retreat from one quarter only invites trouble from another. From Retreat to the Well, the mountain's withdrawal should reach the deep water that nourishes all. But the well is depleted, the river hollow. The retreating figure discovers that the communal infrastructure has decayed beyond use, and running from one neighbor's trouble merely redirects the flood to one's own house.