Guan Di lot 8 of 100
A harvest this year
Highest (上上, 甲辛). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it, with the stem pair 甲辛.
年來耕稼苦無收
今歲田疇定有秋
況遇太平無事日
士農工賈百無憂
For years the farming was hard and the harvest poor.
This year the fields will surely give an autumn crop.
Besides, you have met a peaceful time with nothing wrong,
and scholar, farmer, craftsman and merchant have nothing to fear.
What this lot says
This is a lot about relief after a hard stretch. The verse says the poor yields of earlier years give way to a better one, and that the wider times are calm.
It speaks to every kind of work, not just farming. If you have been putting in effort without much return, it reads as a sign that the effort is about to count.
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
Shun farms on Mount Li; Yi Yin farms in Xin and delights in the Way (大舜耕歷山；伊尹耕莘樂道)
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)
年來耕稼苦無收 / 今歲田疇定有秋 / 況遇太平無事日 / 士農工賈百無憂
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
年來耕稼苦無收 / 今歲田疇定有秋 / 況遇太平無事日 / 士農工賈百無憂
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.