Guan Di lot 3 of 100
Food and clothing come of themselves
Fairly good (中吉, 甲丙). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it, with the stem pair 甲丙.
衣食自然生處有
勸君不用苦勞心
但能孝悌存忠信
福祿來成禍不侵
Food and clothing will come from where they naturally grow.
I urge you not to wear out your heart with worry.
If you can keep to duty to your elders, loyalty and good faith,
good fortune will arrive and trouble will not get in.
What this lot says
This is a lot of reassurance about the basics. The verse tells you that your needs will be met without hard anxiety, and it asks you to stop straining.
It attaches one condition, in the third line: be dutiful, loyal and honest. Read it as advice to put effort into your relationships and your word rather than into worry.
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
Jia Yi meets Emperor Wen of Han; Zhang Gongyi's nine generations under one roof (賈誼遇漢文帝；張公藝九世同居)
Named for this lot in the Wikisource transcription.
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)
衣食自然生處有 / 勸君不用苦勞心 / 但能孝悌存忠信 / 福祿來成禍不侵
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
衣食自然生處有 / 勸君不用苦勞心 / 但能孝梯存忠信 / 福祿來成禍不侵
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3 reads 但能孝悌存忠信 in Wikisource and 但能孝梯存忠信 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Line 4: Wikisource's commentary says 成 is also written 時.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.