Guan Di lot 38 of 100
Waiting with the cricket's song
Lowest (下下, 丁辛). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 丁辛 is from manekineko.com.tw.
蛩吟唧唧守孤幃
千里懸懸望信歸
等得榮華公子到
秋冬括括雨靡靡
Crickets chirp as you keep the lonely bed-curtains.
A thousand miles away, you watch anxiously for news.
When the noble young man arrives,
it will be a time of thin, endless autumn and winter rain.
What this lot says
This is a lot about long waiting. The verse puts you alone at night, looking toward someone far away, with rain in the last line.
It does not say whether the news is good. It describes the feeling of the wait, and it suits a question about someone who is away.
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
Meng Jiangnu longs for her husband (孟姜女思夫)
According to the account on Wikisource, in the time of the First Emperor of Qin, Meng Jiangnu's husband was sent to work on the Great Wall and did not return, and she grieved for him.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/38, 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)
蛩吟唧唧守孤幃 / 千里懸懸望信歸 / 等得榮華公子到 / 秋冬括括雨靡靡
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
蛩吟唧唧守孤幃 / 千里懸懸望信歸 / 等得榮華公子到 / 秋冬括括雨霏霏
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 4 reads 秋冬括括雨靡靡 in Wikisource and 秋冬括括雨霏霏 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Line 4: Wikisource's commentary says 秋冬括括 is also written 秋風括地.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.