Wong Tai Sin lot 31 of 100
Cai Zhongxing meets danger
Lowest (下下). 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.
狂風驟雨打船篷
溪畔桃花盡落紅
驚醒漁翁春夢熟
持篙撐去失西東
A wild wind and sudden rain beat on the boat's awning.
By the stream the peach blossoms have all fallen red.
A fisherman is startled out of a deep spring dream.
He takes his pole and pushes off, no longer sure of east or west.
What this lot says
Calm is broken by a storm: the blossom falls and the sleeper wakes in confusion with the boat adrift.
The lot is graded lowest. It reads as a warning that conditions can change fast, and that disorientation is the first problem to deal with.
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
Cai Zhongxing meets danger (蔡中興遇險)
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)
狂風驟雨打船篷 / 溪畔桃花盡落紅 / 驚醒漁翁春夢熟 / 持篙撐去失西東
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
狂風驟雨打船篷 / 溪畔桃花盡落紅 / 驚醒漁翁春夢熟 / 持篙撐去失西東
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
狂風驟雨打船篷 / 溪畔桃花盡落紅 / 驚醒漁翁春夢熟 / 持篙撐去失西東
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Where the sources differ
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 漁翁遇風失東西.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.