Guan Di lot 14 of 100
A pleasant first meeting
Lowest (下下, 乙丁). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 乙丁 is from manekineko.com.tw.
一見佳人便喜歡
誰知去後有多般
人情冷暖君休訝
歷涉應知行路難
At first sight of a beauty, you are glad.
Who knows how many troubles come after?
Do not be surprised at warmth turning to coolness among people.
Having crossed over, you will learn that the road is hard.
What this lot says
This is a lot about infatuation. The verse says a happy first meeting hides complications that show up later.
It is not a ban on feeling. It asks you to give a new attachment time to be tested before you commit to it.
A lot is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
The story behind it
Guo Hua longs for Wang Yueying (郭華戀王月英)
According to the account on Wikisource, which cites the play "The Rouge Story", Guo Hua went to the capital for an exam, fell for a shop girl and failed. When she came to meet him he was too drunk to wake, and when he found the shoe she left behind he was so full of regret that he died. The account ends with a warning to those who let desire carry them away.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/14, the 故事及記載 section
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author. We read it from two named web transcriptions, Chinese Wikisource (the base text) and manekineko.com.tw. Neither is a scan of a printing, the edition behind them is mixed, and we could not establish whether the two are independent of each other.
Wikisource (關聖帝君靈籤) (the text shown above)
一見佳人便喜歡 / 誰知去後有多般 / 人情冷暖君休訝 / 歷涉應知行路難
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
一見佳人便喜歡 / 誰知去後有多般 / 人情冷暖君休訝 / 歷涉應知行路難
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 4: Wikisource's commentary says 應 is also written 方.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.