Guan Di lot 84 of 100
Too much going on
Middling (中平, 壬丁). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 壬丁 is from manekineko.com.tw.
箇中事緒更紛然
當局須知一著先
長舌婦人休酷聽
力行禮義要心堅
In the middle of this, matters are tangled.
Anyone in the game should know one move ahead.
Do not listen too closely to long-tongued gossips.
Work at courtesy and duty, and keep your heart firm.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a tangled situation. The verse says to think one step ahead, to ignore gossip and to hold to your principles.
It suits a question about office politics or family friction. The plain advice is to keep your conduct clean.
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
Xu Jia harms Fan Ju (須賈害范雎)
According to the account on Wikisource, Fan Ju of the Warring States was falsely accused by his employer Xu Jia and beaten almost to death. He escaped to Qin, became chancellor, and when Xu Jia came to Qin, Fan Ju, in shabby clothes, met him. Xu Jia gave him a warm robe, and Fan Ju, moved by that kindness, let him go.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/84, 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)
箇中事緒更紛然 / 當局須知一著先 / 長舌婦人休酷聽 / 力行禮義要心堅
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
箇中事緒更粉然 / 當局須知一著先 / 長舌婦人休酷聽 / 力行禮義要心堅
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1 reads 箇中事緒更紛然 in Wikisource and 箇中事緒更粉然 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Line 1: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 君家 for 箇中, apparently a variant reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.