Guan Di lot 17 of 100
Fields and prices
Lowest (下下, 乙庚). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 乙庚 is from manekineko.com.tw.
田園價貫好商量
事到公庭彼此傷
縱使機關圖得勝
定為後世子孫殃
Land and prices can be talked over.
Once it reaches the courtroom, both sides are hurt.
Even if cleverness wins you the case,
it will bring harm to your descendants.
What this lot says
This is a lot about money and property disputes. The verse says negotiation is better than court, and that even a win by clever means comes at a cost.
Read it as an old preference for settling fairly, not as a forecast of any case. For a real legal matter, speak to a qualified lawyer.
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
Shi Chong meets disaster (石崇被難)
According to the account on Wikisource, Shi Chong of the Jin dynasty was extremely rich and competed with another noble in luxury. A powerful prince wanted his concubine Lüzhu, and when Shi Chong fell, she threw herself from a tower.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/17, 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)
田園價貫好商量 / 事到公庭彼此傷 / 縱使機關圖得勝 / 定為後世子孫殃
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
田園價貫好商量 / 事到公庭彼此傷 / 縱使機關圖得勝 / 定為後世子孫殃
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.