Guan Di lot 61 of 100
Bandits in the hills
Middling (中平, 庚甲). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 庚甲 is from manekineko.com.tw.
嘯聚山林兇惡儔
善良無事苦煎憂
主人大笑出門去
不用干戈盜賊休
A band of fierce men gathers in the hills and woods.
The good and peaceable are bitterly worried.
The master laughs aloud and goes out the gate.
With no weapons needed, the robbers stop.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a threat that dissolves. The verse describes fear in the community and then a calm figure who resolves it without a fight.
It suggests the strongest response may be a calm one. If you are facing a quarrel, you may not need to escalate.
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
Kuai Tong meets Han Xin (蒯輒見韓信)
According to the account on Wikisource, Kuai Tong advised Han Xin to stay neutral and divide the realm in three. Han Xin refused out of loyalty to the king of Han and was later killed, and at his death he said he regretted not listening.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/61, 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)
嘯聚山林兇惡儔 / 善良無事苦煎憂 / 主人大笑出門去 / 不用干戈盜賊休
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
嘯聚山林兇惡儔 / 善良無事苦煎憂 / 主人大笑出門去 / 不用干戈盜賊休
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Grade: the manekineko.com.tw page title gives 中平 but its sub-heading gives 上上.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.