Guan Yin lot 85 of 100
Reopening the mountain
Favourable (中吉). Grade from lot 85 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.
重開山後藏前事
萬寶園中可再團
醉詠新詩添逸興
貴人引接上雲衢
Open the mountain again: past things lie stored behind it.
In the garden of ten thousand treasures, you may gather once more.
Drunk, you chant new poems, and your spirit lifts.
A noble friend leads you up the road of clouds.
What this lot says
Something was put away behind a mountain, and the verse says it can be opened again. The garden of treasures suggests people or assets once scattered coming together, and the new poems show good spirits returning.
The last line adds a helper who leads the way upward, so the recovery does not rest on you alone.
If you shelved a project or lost touch with former colleagues, look again at what you set aside. Get in touch, show some new work, and let someone senior who respects you make the introduction.
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
Han Yu meets the snow (韓文公遇雪)
The Tang writer Han Yu was sentenced to death for a memorial against honoring a Buddha relic, was saved by friends at court, and was exiled to Chaozhou, the road on which this title sets its snow. He was later moved closer to the capital, which suits a lot about a return with help from above.
Source: Wikipedia, Han Yu
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)
重開山後藏前事 / 萬寶園中可再團 / 醉詠新詩添逸興 / 貴人引接上雲衢
Retrieved 2026-11-08
Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
重開山後藏前事 / 萬寶園中可再團 / 醉詠新詩添逸興 / 貴人引接上雲衢
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.