Wong Tai Sin lot 15 of 100
Emperor Ming visits the Moon Palace
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.
仙槎一葉泛中流
月殿蟾宮任爾遊
盈耳霓裳聲暫歇
酒詩吟飲幾時休
A leaf of a raft floats out into mid-stream.
The Moon Palace and the toad's palace are yours to roam.
The music of the Rainbow Skirt fills your ears, then stops for a while.
Wine and poems, drinking and chanting: when will it end?
What this lot says
A dreamlike journey to the moon, with music and wine and no end in sight. The tone is of pleasure and wonder.
The verse describes the enjoyment of the moment and does not say that it lasts.
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 visits the Moon Palace (明皇遊月殿)
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)
仙槎一葉泛中流 / 月殿蟾宮任爾遊 / 盈耳霓裳聲暫歇 / 酒詩吟飲幾時休
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
仙槎一葉泛中流 / 月殿蟾宮任爾游 / 盈耳霓裳聲暫歇 / 酒詩吟飲幾時休
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
仙槎一葉泛中流 / 月殿蟾宮任爾遊 / 盈耳霓裳聲暫歇 / 酒詩吟飲幾時休
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 7: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 遊; luckeyes.com reads 游. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.