Guan Di lot 98 of 100
Dry wood in spring again
Middling (中平, 癸辛). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 癸辛 is from manekineko.com.tw.
經營百出費精神
南北奔馳運未新
玉兔交時當得意
恰如枯木再逢春
A hundred schemes and plans wear out your spirit.
You race north and south, and your luck has not renewed.
When the jade hare crosses, you will find your moment.
It will be just like dry wood meeting spring again.
What this lot says
This is a lot about tiring effort that eventually pays off. The verse says you have done a lot of running about, and that a turn of time changes it.
The image is the same as in lot 25. It suits someone who feels used up and is waiting for a change.
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
Xue Rengui joins the army (薛仁貴投軍)
According to the account on Wikisource, Xue Rengui of the Tang dynasty volunteered for the campaign in Liaodong, fought in white clothes and won great merit. He later defended against the Turks at Tianshan, where a song praised his three arrows.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/98, 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)
經營百出費精神 / 南北奔馳運未新 / 玉兔交時當得意 / 恰如枯木再逢春
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
經營百出費精神 / 南北奔馳運未新 / 玉兔交時當得意 / 恰如枯木再逢春
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.