革 → 旅

Commentary

Fire within the lake yields to fire above the mountain — the Wanderer, who travels light and far from home. The Stone Gate opens at dawn; one who carries a basket endures poverty. Withdrawing from the world to live in seclusion, one ultimately never meets one's time. The 'Stone Gate at dawn' echoes the Analerta passage where Zilu sleeps at the Stone Gate and the gatekeeper remarks: 'Is that the man who knows it cannot be done and keeps trying?' The 'basket carrier' (荷蕢) is another Analerta hermit who criticized Confucius's stubborn engagement with a doomed world. From Revolution to the Wanderer, the transformation captures the recluse who opts out of upheaval — principled withdrawal, but at the cost of never finding an era worthy of one's gifts.