Guan Di lot 90 of 100
Plenty of matters, no need to pray
Middling (中平, 壬癸). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 壬癸 is from manekineko.com.tw.
崆峒城裏事如麻
無事如君有幾家
勸汝不須勤致禱
徒勞生事苦咨嘆
In Kongtong city, matters are as thick as hemp.
Few people are as free of trouble as you.
I urge you not to pray with much effort,
since fussing only brings trouble and sighing.
What this lot says
This is a lot about worrying too much. The verse says that you are less troubled than you think and that extra praying over it adds to the burden.
It does not tell you to stop caring. It asks you to stop making more trouble out of the trouble you have.
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
Yang Wenguang takes Liuzhou (楊文廣陷柳州)
According to the account on Wikisource, Yang Wenguang of the Song dynasty is recorded in histories as serving under Di Qing in the southern campaign, while folk accounts tell a different story in which the Yang family women come to rescue him. The account says the official history is the one to follow.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/90, 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)
崆峒城裏事如麻 / 無事如君有幾家 / 勸汝不須勤致禱 / 徒勞生事苦咨嘆
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
崆峒城裏事如麻 / 無事如君有幾家 / 勸汝不須勤致禱 / 徒勞生事苦咨嘆
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 4: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 營 for 勞, apparently a variant reading.
- Line 4: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 嗟 for 嘆, apparently a variant reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.