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Guan Di lot 78 of 100

Wealth that harms

Lowest (下下, 辛辛). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 辛辛 is from manekineko.com.tw.

家道豊腴自飽溫

也須肚裏立乾坤

財多害己君當省

福有胚胎禍有門

Your household is comfortable and you are well fed and warm.

Still, you must set your own order inside your heart.

Too much wealth harms you, so look into that.

Good fortune has its seed and misfortune has its gate.

What this lot says

This is a lot about comfort and caution. The verse says that being well-off is good but requires an inner order, and that too much wealth can be a problem.

It says good and bad both begin from small seeds. If things are going well, it is a call to stay watchful and modest.

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

Yuan An endures hardship (袁安守困)

According to the account on Wikisource, Yuan An of the Han dynasty was poor when young but of high character. He is said to have once lain on the snow, and later became an official whom the court relied on.

Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/78, 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)

家道豊腴自飽溫 / 也須肚裏立乾坤 / 財多害己君當省 / 福有胚胎禍有門

Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)

家道豐腴自飽溫 / 也須肚裏立乾坤 / 財多害己君當省 / 福有胚胎禍有門

Retrieved 2026-11-09

Where the sources differ

  • Line 1 reads 家道豊腴自飽溫 in Wikisource and 家道豐腴自飽溫 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
  • Line 1: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 豐 for 豊, apparently a variant reading.

English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.