Guan Di lot 34 of 100
Help from a person of standing
Middling (中平, 丁丁). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 丁丁 is from manekineko.com.tw.
春夏纔過秋又冬
紛紛謀慮攪心胸
貴人垂手來相援
休把私心情意濃
Spring and summer have only just passed, and then autumn and winter.
Many worries are churning in your chest.
A person of rank will reach down a hand to help you.
Do not let your private feelings run too strong.
What this lot says
This is a lot about help arriving. The verse says you are worn out by worry and that someone with standing will pull you up.
Its last line asks you to keep personal feeling in check so you can accept the help well. It suits a question about a mentor or a patron.
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
Xiao He chases Han Xin (蕭何追韓信)
According to the account on Wikisource, when many of the Han king's soldiers deserted, Han Xin also left. Xiao He chased him down overnight and argued that only Han Xin could win the contest for the realm, so the king made Han Xin his commander.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/34, 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)
春夏纔過秋又冬 / 紛紛謀慮攪心胸 / 貴人垂手來相援 / 休把私心情意濃
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
春夏纔過秋又冬 / 紛紛謀慮攪心胸 / 貴人垂手來相援 / 休把私心情意濃
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 接 for 援, apparently a variant reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.