Guan Di lot 95 of 100
A pearl in your sleeve
Middling (中平, 癸戊). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 癸戊 is from manekineko.com.tw.
知君袖內有驪珠
生不逢辰亦強圖
可歎頭顱已如許
而今方得貴人扶
I know there is a black dragon's pearl in your sleeve.
Born in an unlucky hour, you still strive.
It is sad that your head has grown so grey.
Only now do you get a person of standing to lift you.
What this lot says
This is a lot for a late bloomer. The verse says you have real talent, that the timing has not been kind, and that support finally arrives.
It is gentle about age. It says it is not too late.
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
Zhang Wenyuan seeks office (張文遠求官)
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)
知君袖內有驪珠 / 生不逢辰亦強圖 / 可歎頭顱已如許 / 而今方得貴人扶
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
知君袖內有驪珠 / 笁不逢辰亦強圖 / 可歎頭顱己如許 / 而今方得貴人扶
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2 reads 生不逢辰亦強圖 in Wikisource and 笁不逢辰亦強圖 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Line 3 reads 可歎頭顱已如許 in Wikisource and 可歎頭顱己如許 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Line 1: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 裏 for 內, apparently a variant reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.