Guan Yin lot 55 of 100
Eat when hungry, sleep when tired
Favourable (中吉). Grade from lot 55 of the related Goodfate edition, whose verse is worded quite differently, so it is not compared line by line below. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
相傳罔替子孫贊
衣祿豐盈富在天
金馬玉堂人快樂
飢時吃飯困時眠
Handed down unbroken, praised by sons and grandsons,
Food and clothing in plenty, and wealth is up to heaven.
Golden Horse and Jade Hall, and the people are glad.
Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired.
What this lot says
The verse lists the largest things a family could want: an unbroken inheritance, plenty of food and clothes, a post at the Golden Horse Gate and the Jade Hall, where the empire's scholars served. Then it ends with a meal and a nap.
That last line carries the weight. Wealth rests with heaven, it says, and a good day still comes down to eating when hungry and sleeping when tired.
If you are weighing a promotion or a bigger house, ask how your ordinary days would change. Keep the habits that let you rest.
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
King Wu of Zhou takes the throne (周武王登位)
King Wu succeeded his father King Wen and, around 1046 BC by the most widely used modern dating, overthrew the last Shang king at the Battle of Muye to found the Zhou dynasty. It is a story of an inheritance carried forward, as this lot's first line describes.
Source: Wikipedia, King Wu of Zhou
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)
相傳罔替子孫贊 / 衣祿豐盈富在天 / 金馬玉堂人快樂 / 飢時吃飯困時眠
Retrieved 2026-11-08
Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
相傳罔替子孫贊 / 衣祿豐盈富在天 / 金馬玉堂人快樂 / 飢時吃飯困時眠
Retrieved 2026-11-08
Where the sources differ
- The related Goodfate edition has a substantially different verse for this lot.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.