Wong Tai Sin lot 2 of 100
Wang Daozhen strays into the peach blossom land
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.
枯木逢春盡發新
花香葉茂蝶來頻
桃源競鬥千紅紫
一葉漁舟誤入津
A withered tree meets spring and puts out new growth everywhere.
The flowers are fragrant, the leaves thick, and butterflies come again and again.
In the peach blossom land, a thousand reds and purples compete.
A boat as small as a leaf has wandered in by accident.
What this lot says
This is a picture of revival. Something that looked dead starts to grow, and a place of plenty opens up to someone who was not even looking for it.
The final line matters: the visitor arrives by accident. Read it as good fortune that comes sideways, and as a reminder that you do not have to force it.
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
Wang Daozhen strays into the peach blossom land (王道真誤入桃源)
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)
枯木逢春盡發新 / 花香葉茂蝶來頻 / 桃源競鬥千紅紫 / 一葉漁舟誤入津
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
枯木逢春盡發新 / 花看葉茂蝶來頻 / 桃源競斗千紅紫 / 一葉漁舟誤入津
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
枯木逢春盡發新 / 花香葉茂蝶來頻 / 桃源競鬥千紅紫 / 一葉漁舟誤入津
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 2: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 香; luckeyes.com reads 看. This is a different character.
- Line 3, character 4: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 鬥; luckeyes.com reads 斗. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.