Guan Di lot 85 of 100
Rain all spring, a long road
Middling (中平, 壬戊). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 壬戊 is from manekineko.com.tw.
一春風雨正瀟瀟
千里行人去路遙
移寡就多君得計
如何歸路轉無聊
All spring the wind and rain have been bleak.
The traveller is a thousand miles out and the road is long.
Moving from fewer to more is a good plan.
Why does the road home turn dull?
What this lot says
This is a lot about a long trip in poor weather. The verse says that the way out has gone well but that the return feels empty.
It suits a question about a project that has met its goal and left you flat. It says a letdown is common and does not mean the goal was wrong.
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
Jiang Nü seeks her husband (姜女尋夫)
According to the account on Wikisource, which draws on folk histories, Meng Jiangnu's husband was sent to work on the Great Wall soon after their wedding. She went to find him and learned he had died, and the account says the Wall collapsed at her weeping.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/85, 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)
一春風雨正瀟瀟 / 千里行人去路遙 / 移寡就多君得計 / 如何歸路轉無聊
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
一春風雨正瀟瀟 / 千里行人去路遙 / 移寡就多君得計 / 如何歸路轉無聊
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.