Guan Di lot 54 of 100
Hero among the crowd, books for now
Middling (中平, 己丁). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 己丁 is from manekineko.com.tw.
萬人叢裏逞英豪
便欲飛騰霄漢高
爭奈承流風未便
青燈黃卷且勤勞
In the midst of ten thousand people you show your heroic side.
You want to fly up as high as the sky.
But the current of the times is not yet convenient.
For now, work hard by the green lamp and the yellow scrolls.
What this lot says
This is a lot about ambition that has to wait. The verse sees your drive and admits the moment is not yet right.
Its advice is to use the time to study and prepare. If you feel held back, it reads as a call to build the foundation.
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
Su Qin stabs his thigh; Su Qin fails the exam (蘇秦刺股；蘇秦不第)
According to the account on Wikisource, Su Qin of the Warring States period failed to win a ruler's favour and came home to a cold reception. He studied hard, and when he was sleepy, he jabbed his thigh with an awl. He later persuaded six states to unite against Qin.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/54, 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)
萬人叢裏逞英豪 / 便欲飛騰霄漢高 / 爭奈承流風未便 / 青燈黃卷且勤勞
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
萬人叢裏逞英豪 / 便欲飛騰霄漢高 / 爭奈承流風未便 / 青燈黃卷且勤勞
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.