Wong Tai Sin lot 35 of 100
The monk of Tang fetches the scriptures
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.
天將降任此其人
筋骨先勞苦彼身
莫謂佳景來可易
貧窮富貴有前因
Heaven is about to lay a great task on this person.
First their muscles and bones must labour and suffer.
Do not say that a fine view comes easily.
Poverty and wealth both have earlier causes.
What this lot says
The verse says a heavy responsibility is preceded by hard labour. A fine outcome has to be earned.
It reads as a good but demanding lot. Read it as encouragement to expect effort, and not to take a current state of poverty or wealth as the whole story.
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
The monk of Tang fetches the scriptures (唐僧取經)
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)
天將降任此其人 / 筋骨先勞苦彼身 / 莫謂佳景來可易 / 貧窮富貴有前因
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
天將降任此其人 / 筋骨先勞苦彼身 / 莫謂佳景來可易 / 貧窮富貴有前因
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
天將降任此其人 / 筋骨先勞苦彼身 / 莫謂佳景來可易 / 貧窮富貴有前因
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English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.