Wong Tai Sin lot 23 of 100
Lu Sheng's dream
Middling (中平). 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.
邯鄲一夢幻無邊
數載身榮是熟眠
換卻錦衣歸故里
睡醒還記在心田
A dream at Handan, boundless and unreal.
Years of glory turned out to be only a sound sleep.
He changed into brocade and went back to his home village.
On waking he still keeps it in his heart.
What this lot says
The verse itself gives the point: years of honour turn out to have been a sound sleep, and the dreamer wakes and keeps it in mind. It is about how light success can be.
A middling grade suits it: the lot does not deny achievement, but asks what remains when the dream ends.
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
Lu Sheng's dream (盧生夢)
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)
邯鄲一夢幻無邊 / 數載身榮是熟眠 / 換卻錦衣歸故里 / 睡醒還記在心田
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
邯鄲一夢幻無邊 / 數載身榮是熟眠 / 換卻錦衣歸故里 / 睡醒還記在心田
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
邯鄲一夢幻無邊 / 數載身榮是熟眠 / 換郤錦衣歸故里 / 睡醒還記在心田
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Where the sources differ
- Line 3, character 2: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 卻; andy.hk reads 郤. This is the same character in a different written form.
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 夢中得寶.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.