Guan Di lot 31 of 100
Plain in autumn, brighter in spring
Fairly good (中吉, 丁甲). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 丁甲 is from manekineko.com.tw.
秋冬作事只尋常
春到門庭漸吉昌
千里信音符遠望
萱堂快樂未渠央
In autumn and winter, work is ordinary.
When spring comes to your door, things gradually brighten.
News from a thousand miles away fits your far hopes.
The mother's hall is happy, and it is not yet over.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a slow season changing. The verse says autumn and winter are plain and spring is warm.
Its last two lines turn to family and distant news, with good cheer at home. If you are waiting for word from far away, the verse says it will come.
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
Su Wu breaks his word (蘇卿負信)
According to the account on Wikisource, during his nineteen years among the Xiongnu, Su Wu took a local woman as a wife and had three sons with her, promised to return, and did not. The account notes that she reproached him for keeping his staff but not his word.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/31, 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)
秋冬作事只尋常 / 春到門庭漸吉昌 / 千里信音符遠望 / 萱堂快樂未渠央
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
秋冬作事只尋常 / 春到門庭漸吉昌 / 千里信音符遠望 / 萱堂快樂未渠央
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.