Guan Di lot 24 of 100
A hard spring, a steady summer
Middling (中平, 丙丁). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 丙丁 is from manekineko.com.tw.
一春萬事苦憂煎
夏裏營求始帖然
更遇秋成冬至後
恰如騎鶴與腰纏
All spring, everything has been worry and strain.
In summer, your efforts finally settle.
Then comes the autumn harvest and, after it, midwinter,
and it will be as if you rode a crane with money at your waist.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a year that improves by season. The verse starts with a hard spring and ends with a comfortable winter.
It suits a question about a long project. Take it as a map of timing, and use it to pace yourself.
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
Zhang Qian wanders by mistake into the Palace of the Dipper and Ox (張騫誤入斗牛宮)
According to the account on Wikisource, Zhang Qian of the Han dynasty was sent as an envoy to the west and, in the legend, once sailed on a raft up to the Milky Way and reached the palace of the Dipper and Ox. He met a woman weaving, and a man named Yan Junping later told him she was the Weaving Girl.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/24, 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)
一春萬事苦憂煎 / 夏裏營求始帖然 / 更遇秋成冬至後 / 恰如騎鶴與腰纏
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
一春萬事苦憂煎 / 夏裏營求始帖然 / 更遇秋成冬至後 / 恰如騎鶴與腰纏
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.