Guan Di lot 83 of 100
Plain porridge at home
Lowest (下下, 壬丙). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 壬丙 is from manekineko.com.tw.
隨分堂前赴粥饘
何須妄想苦憂煎
主張門戶誠難事
百歲安閒得幾年
Take the porridge in the hall as your portion.
Why trouble yourself with wild thoughts and worry?
Running a household is truly hard.
How many years of quiet ease will a hundred years give you?
What this lot says
This is a lot about contentment and the effort of keeping a household. The verse says to take what you have and stop worrying, and it admits that managing a home is difficult.
It is a lot for a tired person. It asks you to do what you can and to rest when you can.
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
Zhuge Kongming studies the Way (諸葛孔明學道)
According to the account on Wikisource, Zhuge Liang, in the late Han dynasty, lived quietly in Nanyang and studied a wide range of learning. Liu Bei visited him three times to ask for advice, made him his adviser, and later named him chancellor.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/83, 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)
隨分堂前赴粥饘 / 何須妄想苦憂煎 / 主張門戶誠難事 / 百歲安閒得幾年
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manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
隨分堂前赴粥饘 / 何須妄想苦憂煎 / 主張門戶誠難事 / 百歲安閒得幾年
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.