Wong Tai Sin lot 4 of 100
Dong Yong meets an immortal
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.
調雛紫燕在簷前
對語呢喃近午天
或往或來低復起
有時剪破綠楊煙
Young swallows are being taught to fly in front of the eaves.
They chatter softly as noon draws near.
Now going, now coming, low and then rising again.
At times they clip through the mist over the green willows.
What this lot says
A quiet, small-scale scene: young birds practising under a roof, moving about without hurry. Nothing dramatic happens in the verse.
That is its tone. It suggests steady progress made in familiar surroundings, with some growth along the way, rather than a sudden change.
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
Dong Yong meets an immortal (董永遇仙)
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)
調雛紫燕在簷前 / 對語呢喃近午天 / 或往或來低復起 / 有時剪破綠楊煙
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
調雛紫燕在檐前 / 對語呢喃近午天 / 或往或來低復起 / 有時剪破綠楊煙
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
調雛紫燕在簷前 / 對語呢喃近午天 / 或往或來低復起 / 有時剪破綠楊煙
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Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 6: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 簷; luckeyes.com reads 檐. 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 燕子教飛.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.