Wong Tai Sin lot 34 of 100
Great Shun ploughs Mount Li
Good (中吉). 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.
大舜雖耕在歷山
心常孝順兩囂頑
田中之象同家象
善惡分明即此間
Though Great Shun was ploughing on Mount Li,
his heart stayed dutiful toward the two stubborn ones.
The elephants in the field answer to the conduct at home.
Good and evil are plain to see, right here.
What this lot says
A man works the land and keeps faith with difficult family members. The note with this lot on andy.hk says elephants ploughed his field for him, so what he does at home shows in the field.
It reads as a favourable lot about steady good conduct, and about the way what you do in small settings shows your character.
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
Great Shun ploughs Mount Li (大舜耕歷山)
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)
大舜雖耕在歷山 / 心常孝順兩囂頑 / 田中之象同家象 / 善惡分明即此間
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
大舜雖耕在歷山 / 心常孝順兩囂頑 / 田中之象同家象 / 善惡分明即此間
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
大舜雖耕在歷山 / 心常孝順兩囂頑 / 田中之象同家象 / 善惡分明即此間
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- The allusion in the lot title: fortunesticks.org names it 大舜耕歷山; luckeyes.com and andy.hk name it 虞舜耕田.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.