Guan Di lot 74 of 100
Mountain upon mountain
Good (上吉, 辛丁). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 辛丁 is from manekineko.com.tw.
崔巍崔魏復崔巍
履險如夷去復來
身似菩提心似鏡
長安一道放春回
High, high, and high again.
You walk over danger as if it were flat, going and coming.
Your body is like the bodhi tree, your heart like a mirror.
One road to Chang'an, and spring turns back.
What this lot says
This is a lot about difficulty that does not stop you. The verse piles up mountains and then says you cross them without fuss.
Its last two lines are calm and clear. If you are facing a long climb, they suggest a steady heart as the way to carry it.
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
Cui Wu seeks office (崔武求官)
Named for this lot in the Wikisource transcription.
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)
崔巍崔魏復崔巍 / 履險如夷去復來 / 身似菩提心似鏡 / 長安一道放春回
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
崔巍崔巍復崔巍 / 履險如夷去復來 / 身似菩提心似鏡 / 長安一道放春回
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1 reads 崔巍崔魏復崔巍 in Wikisource and 崔巍崔巍復崔巍 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Line 1 prints 崔魏 in Wikisource, which looks like a copying slip for 崔巍. We translate 崔巍.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.