Wong Tai Sin lot 37 of 100
Su Dongpo visits the Red Cliff
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.
月夜秋江下釣鰲
魚形恰似四腮鱸
家藏舊釀堪盈斗
與友飛觴盡倒壺
On a moonlit night on the autumn river, I fish for a giant turtle.
The fish looks just like the four-gilled perch.
At home there is old wine, enough to fill a measure.
With friends I raise the cup and drain the flask.
What this lot says
Autumn, moonlight, a river, a good catch, old wine and friends. Everything in this verse is pleasant.
It is graded as high. Read it as a lot of good company and of enjoying what you have stored up.
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
Su Dongpo visits the Red Cliff (東坡游赤壁)
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)
月夜秋江下釣鰲 / 魚形恰似四腮鱸 / 家藏舊釀堪盈斗 / 與友飛觴盡倒壺
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
月夜秋江下釣鰲 / 魚形恰似四腮鱸 / 家藏舊釀堪盈斗 / 與友飛觴盡倒壺
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
月夜秋江下釣鰲 / 魚形恰似四腮鱸 / 家藏舊釀堪盈斗 / 與友飛觴盡倒壺
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 王羲之釣魚.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.