鼎 → 旅

Commentary

Fire over wind fills the cauldron, yet fire above the mountain in The Wanderer consumes what it cannot settle. The original verse reads: 'Lighting fire at a spring's source, fishing for bream atop a mountain peak — fish cannot be caught, charcoal cannot be lit.' Every action is perfectly mismatched to its environment: fire where water rises, fishing where no water flows. The methods are not wrong in themselves, only catastrophically misapplied. From The Cauldron to The Wanderer, the transformation displaces the cauldron's fire from its proper hearth. Fire on the mountain has no vessel to contain it; the wanderer carries skill but finds no place to exercise it. Competence without context achieves nothing — the cauldron, removed from its base, cannot cook.