Guan Di lot 69 of 100
Leave the boat, take the road
Lowest (下下, 庚壬). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 庚壬 is from manekineko.com.tw.
捨舟遵路總相宜
慎勿嬉遊逐貴兒
一夜樽前兄與弟
明朝仇敵又相隨
Leave the boat and follow the road: it suits you either way.
Be careful not to chase after rich young men for fun.
One night at the feast, you are brothers.
The next morning, enmity comes close behind.
What this lot says
This is a lot about unreliable company. The verse says that quick friendship at a feast can turn the next morning, and asks you to take the plain route and not follow the rich for amusement.
If you are being invited into a crowd that seems exciting, it asks you to look at who they are on a quiet day.
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
Sun and Pang's contest of wits (孫龐鬥智)
According to the account on Wikisource, the Warring States rivals Sun Bin and Pang Juan studied under the same teacher. Pang Juan grew jealous of Sun Bin and had his feet cut off, and Sun Bin later killed him, and the account calls both men cruel.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/69, 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)
捨舟遵路總相宜 / 慎勿嬉遊逐貴兒 / 一夜樽前兄與弟 / 明朝仇敵又相隨
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
捨舟遵路總相宜 / 慎勿嬉遊逐貴兒 / 一夜樽前兄與弟 / 明朝仇敵又相隨
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Wikisource adds a bracketed gloss, (樽指酒杯), at the start of line 4, which we left out of the verse.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.