Guan Di lot 65 of 100
Cold wind, warm gate
Highest (上上, 庚戊). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 庚戊 is from manekineko.com.tw.
朔風凜凜正窮冬
多羨門庭喜氣濃
更入新春人事後
衷言方得信先容
The north wind is bitter in the depths of winter.
I admire the joy that is thick at your gate.
After you enter the new spring and the affairs of people,
honest words will gain trust and be spoken of first.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a cold season with warmth at home. The verse sets a bitter outer world against a happy household.
The last line says that straight speech earns trust after the new year. It suits a question about speaking up when the season changes.
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
Lü Mengzheng answers a poem at Mulan temple (蒙正木蘭和詩)
According to the account on Wikisource, Lü Mengzheng of the Song dynasty, when still poor, wrote a poem at a temple that showed he was no ordinary man. He later came first in the exams and served three times as chancellor.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/65, 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)
朔風凜凜正窮冬 / 多羨門庭喜氣濃 / 更入新春人事後 / 衷言方得信先容
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
朔風凜凜正窮冬 / 多羨門庭喜氣濃 / 更入新春人事後 / 衷言方得信先容
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 漸覺 for 多羨, apparently a variant reading.
- Line 4 reads 衷言, which Wikisource's commentary writes as 衰言. We follow the verse.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.