家人 → 睽

Commentary

Wind from fire binds the family, but here the bonds are tested by separation and suspicion. A comfortable bed with thick quilts stands ready, yet the absent one does not return to sleep in it. The speaker's feast is abandoned; the traveler is stranded in the southern lands. Then comes the 'worry of the thrown shuttle' — an allusion to the story of Zeng Shen's mother: told three times that her son had killed a man, even she finally threw down her loom shuttle and fled in panic. Yet the verse resolves: the slander does not become a real disaster. From The Family to Opposition, fire above the lake pulls in contrary directions. Opposition creates estrangement, but estrangement need not become permanent rupture — if trust survives the test of rumor, the family can be restored.