Guan Di lot 4 of 100
Last year went well, this year is weaker
Slightly good (下吉, 甲丁). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it, with the stem pair 甲丁.
去年百事頗相宜
若較今年時運衰
好把瓣香告神佛
莫教福謝悔無追
Last year almost everything went well.
Compared with it, this year's fortune is weaker.
Take a stick of incense and tell the gods about it,
so you do not regret later that your good fortune slipped away.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a change of season. The verse admits that things were better before and that this year is harder, and it does not hide it.
Its advice is to pay attention while you still can: offer thanks and take stock. If your question is about a decision, this is a lot for slowing down and keeping what you have.
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
The Prince of Qin leaps the stream; Zhang Han longs for perch from home (小秦王三跳澗；張翰憶鱸魚)
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)
去年百事頗相宜 / 若較今年時運衰 / 好把瓣香告神佛 / 莫教福謝悔無追
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
去年百事可相宜 / 若較今年時運衰 / 好把瓣香告神佛 / 莫教福謝悔無追
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1 reads 去年百事頗相宜 in Wikisource and 去年百事可相宜 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Grade: Wikisource gives 下吉 and manekineko.com.tw gives 下下. We show the Wikisource grade.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.