Guan Di lot 60 of 100
Brothers pass together
Highest (上上, 己癸). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 己癸 is from manekineko.com.tw.
羨君兄弟好名聲
只管謙撝莫自矜
丹詔槐黃相逼近
巍巍科甲兩同登
I admire the fine name of you and your brother.
Be humble and do not be proud.
The imperial summons and the yellow of the locust are close.
Lofty and honoured, you will both rise at the same time.
What this lot says
This is a lot about shared success. The verse praises two siblings and tells them to stay humble as the moment of recognition nears.
The locust yellow is an old image for exam season. If you and someone close are preparing for the same thing, the verse speaks well of you both.
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 Song brothers pass the exams together (宋郊兄弟同科)
According to the account on Wikisource, Song Jiao and his younger brother took the exams in the same year. A monk who read their faces said the elder had the look of one who had saved many lives, and Song Jiao recalled he had once made a small bridge for ants caught in a flood.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/60, 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)
羨君兄弟好名聲 / 只管謙撝莫自矜 / 丹詔槐黃相逼近 / 巍巍科甲兩同登
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
羨君兄弟好名聲 / 只管謙撝莫自矜 / 丹詔槐黃相逼近 / 巍巍科甲兩同登
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 一意 for 只管, apparently a variant reading.
- Line 3: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 消息 for 相逼, apparently a variant reading.
- Line 4: Wikisource's commentary says 同 is also written 重.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.