Wong Tai Sin lot 100 of 100
Emperor Ming of Tang admires the flowers
Good (中吉). Grade as given on the named web transcriptions. We have not seen it on a temple printing, and we do not know that the temple prints one.
百花競放賀陽春
萬物從今盡轉新
末數莫言窮運至
不知否極泰來頻
A hundred flowers compete to bloom in welcome of bright spring.
From now on all things turn new.
Do not say that the last number means bad luck has arrived.
You may not know that after the worst, good fortune comes round again and again.
What this lot says
This is the last stick of the hundred. The verse says that the end of the set is not an ending: after the lowest point comes renewal.
It is graded good. Read it as encouragement during a hard stretch, with the usual caution that a lot is a prompt for reflection and not a promise.
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
Emperor Ming of Tang admires the flowers (唐明皇賞花)
A traditional allusion named with this lot. We have not traced the story to a source we could read, so we do not retell it here.
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author, here read from named web transcriptions. We compared the sites character by character and show every difference. We could not establish whether the sites are independent of one another, and we have not read a temple printing.
Fortune Sticks (fortunesticks.org) (the text shown above)
百花競放賀陽春 / 萬物從今盡轉新 / 末數莫言窮運至 / 不知否極泰來頻
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
百花競放賀陽春 / 萬物從今盡轉新 / 末數莫言窮運至 / 不知否極泰來臨
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
百花競放賀陽春 / 萬物從今盡轉新 / 末數莫言窮運至 / 不知否極泰來頻
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 4, character 7: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 頻; luckeyes.com reads 臨. This is a different character.
- The allusion in the lot title: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com name it 唐明皇賞花; andy.hk names it 唐明皇擊鼓催花.
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 百花開放.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.