Guan Di lot 66 of 100
Work the home ground
Highest (上上, 庚己). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 庚己 is from manekineko.com.tw.
耕耘只可在鄉邦
何用求謀向外方
見說今年新運好
門闌喜氣事雙雙
Ploughing and tilling can be done only in your home district.
Why go looking for plans in far places?
They say your luck is new and good this year.
Joy fills the gate, and things come in pairs.
What this lot says
This is a lot about staying put. The verse says the home ground is the best field and that there is no need to go far for results.
If you are tempted by a distant opportunity, the lot says the near one is enough this year.
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
Du Fu enjoys the spring (杜甫遊春)
According to the account on Wikisource, Du Fu of the Tang dynasty presented rhapsodies to the emperor, held a minor post, wrote poems that closely recorded his time, and loved to go out into the countryside on clear spring days.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/66, 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)
耕耘只可在鄉邦 / 何用求謀向外方 / 見說今年新運好 / 門闌喜氣事雙雙
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
耕耘只可在鄉邦 / 何用求謀向外方 / 見說今年新運好 / 門闌喜氣事雙雙
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 只見 for 見說, apparently a variant reading.
- Line 1: Wikisource's commentary says 耕耘 is also written 經營.
- Line 2: Wikisource's commentary says 向 is also written 出.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.