Wong Tai Sin lot 42 of 100
Wang Yun presents Diaochan
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.
月明散步到花欄
無策焉能勦滅奸
幸有貂嬋思定國
英雄難過美人關
Under a bright moon I stroll to the flower railing.
Without a plan, how can the traitor be wiped out?
Luckily Diaochan is thinking of settling the state.
A hero finds it hard to get past the gate of beauty.
What this lot says
A plan against a powerful enemy depends on a woman who is willing to act, and the verse remarks that even heroes are weak against beauty.
It reads as a lot about indirect means and about the weak spot in a strong position. The grade is good.
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
Wang Yun presents Diaochan (王允獻貂嬋)
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)
月明散步到花欄 / 無策焉能勦滅奸 / 幸有貂嬋思定國 / 英雄難過美人關
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
月明散步到花欄 / 無策焉能剿滅奸 / 幸有貂嬋思定國 / 英雄難過美人關
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
月明散步到花欄 / 無策焉能勦滅奸 / 幸有貂嬋思定國 / 英雄難過美人關
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 5: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 勦; luckeyes.com reads 剿. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.