Guan Di lot 45 of 100
Tend your own heart
Middling (中平, 戊戊). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 戊戊 is from manekineko.com.tw.
好將心地力耕耘
彼此山頭總是墳
陰地不如心地好
修為到底卻輸君
Put your strength into ploughing the field of your heart.
On every hill, both sides, there are only graves.
A good burial ground is not as good as a good heart.
In the end, your cultivation will beat the others.
What this lot says
This is a lot about inner work over outward arrangements. The verse says that no grave site outdoes a good heart, and that cultivating yourself wins out.
It pokes gently at the pursuit of lucky locations. If you have been worried about outward arrangements, it puts your own conduct first.
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
Emperor Gaozu meets Ding Gong; Ding Gong accuses Gaozu (高祖遇丁公；丁公告高祖)
According to the account on Wikisource, Ding Gong was a general of the rival Chu who let Liu Bang, the future Han emperor, escape from a trap. After he took the throne, Liu Bang had Ding Gong executed for disloyalty to his own lord. A later story in the same account has Ding Gong complain of this injustice before the king of the underworld.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/45, 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)
好將心地力耕耘 / 彼此山頭總是墳 / 陰地不如心地好 / 修為到底卻輸君
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
好將心地力耕耘 / 彼此山頭總是墳 / 陰地不如心地好 / 修為到底卻輸君
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.