革 → 升

Commentary

Fire within the lake transforms into earth above wind — Pushing Upward, where wood grows slowly through soil toward light. Leaning on a dove-staff, carrying baggage, one lies drunk by the roadside. Not knowing what stranger has stolen one's brocade satchel. The dove-staff (仗鳩) was traditionally carried by elders, suggesting a figure of some dignity reduced to drunken collapse. The brocade bag — symbol of accumulated wealth or documents — vanishes while the owner sleeps in a stupor. From Revolution to Pushing Upward, the irony is piercing: upward growth requires alertness and steady effort, but this traveler has drunk himself into oblivion and lost everything to an unknown thief.