Guan Yin lot 4 of 100
The broken mirror made whole
Even (中平). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
菱花鏡破復重圓
女再求夫男再婚
自此門閭重改換
更添福祿與兒孫
The water-chestnut mirror, broken, is round and whole again.
The woman seeks a husband anew, the man marries again.
From now on the household gate is changed,
With more fortune and rank for children and grandchildren.
What this lot says
A bronze mirror, broken in two, is made whole again. The verse uses it for marriage: a woman and a man each begin again, and the household changes with them.
It treats a second start as an honorable thing and looks past the couple to the family that follows.
If you are thinking about remarrying, returning to a former partner or rebuilding a home after a split, this lot looks kindly on the attempt. Be clear about what broke the first time. Talk with anyone else who will live in the new house, children above all, because the verse's hopes reach them too.
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
Yulian is reunited with Shipeng (玉蓮會十朋)
In the old southern opera The Thorn Hairpin, a story that differs greatly from the life of the historical Wang Shipeng, Qian Yulian is parted from her husband by a forged divorce letter and rescued from a river, and the two meet again years later at a temple. The couple's reunion matches the mended mirror of this lot.
Source: Wikipedia (zh), 荊釵記
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author. No single original edition is known and wording differs between temples, so we compare named witnesses and record where they differ.
Míguāng (覓光) (the text shown above)
菱花鏡破復重圓 / 女再求夫男再婚 / 自此門閭重改換 / 更添福祿與兒孫
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
菱花鏡破復重圓 / 女再求夫男再婚 / 自此門閭重改換 / 更添福祿與兒孫
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
菱花鏡破複重圓 / 女再求夫男再婚 / 自此門闾重改換 / 更添福棱與兒孫
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Where the sources differ
- Line 1 reads 菱花鏡破複重圓 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 3 reads 自此門闾重改換 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 4 reads 更添福棱與兒孫 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.