漸 → 井

Commentary

Wind over mountain gives way to water above wind: gradual development reaches the communal resource of the Well. Winding across the high plateau, Jia Bo recklessly interferes, throwing the five offices into disorder. 'Jia Bo' appears in the Shijing ode 'Jie Nan Shan,' a poem from the Xiao Ya section satirizing the corrupt minister Yin who monopolized power under King You of Zhou. The verse charges this official with disrupting the five departments of government through arbitrary meddling. From Development to the Well, the nourishing resource that should serve all is contaminated by mismanagement. The Well's water rises through the wood, but if the well-keeper is corrupt, the whole community goes thirsty. Gradual institutional decay, administered from above, poisons the source.