Wong Tai Sin lot 11 of 100
Emperor Wen of Han admires the willows
High (上吉). 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.
楊柳垂堤鎖綠煙
日長三起又三眠
往來紫燕紛飛舞
裊娜迎風倩我憐
Willows hang along the bank, shutting in the green mist.
On the long days they wake three times and sleep three times.
Swallows dart back and forth in flight.
Swaying in the wind, so graceful that I am fond of them.
What this lot says
Willows, swallows and spring wind make a soft, restful scene. The phrase about waking and sleeping three times is a stock image of willow leaves opening and drooping through the day.
It reads as a gentle, favourable lot about ease and pleasure in what is around you.
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 Wen of Han admires the willows (漢文帝賞柳)
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)
楊柳垂堤鎖綠煙 / 日長三起又三眠 / 往來紫燕紛飛舞 / 裊娜迎風倩我憐
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
楊柳垂堤鎖綠煙 / 日長三起又三眠 / 往來紫燕紛飛舞 / 裊娜迎風倩我憐
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
楊柳垂堤鎖綠煙 / 日長三起又三眠 / 往來紫燕紛飛舞 / 嬝娜迎風倩我憐
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Where the sources differ
- Line 4, character 1: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 裊; andy.hk reads 嬝. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.