Guan Di lot 48 of 100
Over the mountain in the cold
Middling (中平, 戊辛). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 戊辛 is from manekineko.com.tw.
登山涉水正天寒
兄弟姻親那得安
幸遇虎頭人一喚
全家遂保汝重歡
You climb mountains and cross waters in the dead of winter.
How can there be peace among brothers and in-laws?
Luckily a tiger-headed person calls to you,
and your whole family is kept safe and joyful again.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a hard journey and family strain. The verse says the cold and the quarrels are difficult, and that help arrives.
We read the tiger-headed figure loosely, as someone strong who steps in. The commentary on Wikisource takes it as a hint at certain surnames. If your family is under pressure, the verse suggests looking for such a person.
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
Zhao Wuniang seeks her husband (趙五娘尋夫)
According to the account on Wikisource, which cites the play "The Lute", Zhao Wuniang was the wife of the scholar Cai Bojie. He stayed in the capital and did not come home, and after burying his parents she went to find him.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/48, 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)
登山涉水正天寒 / 兄弟姻親那得安 / 幸遇虎頭人一喚 / 全家遂保汝重歡
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
登山涉水正天寒 / 兄弟姻親那得安 / 幸遇虎頭人一喚 / 全家遂保汝重歡
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 不 for 幸, apparently a variant reading.
- Line 4: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 誰 for 遂, apparently a variant reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.