Wong Tai Sin lot 43 of 100
Han Wengong is demoted
Lowest (下下). 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.
祇因直諫怒天顏
晝夜難離在馬鞍
主僕奔忙神亦倦
更加雪重擁藍關
Only because he advised bluntly, he angered the face of heaven.
Day and night he can hardly leave the saddle.
Master and servant hurry on, their spirits worn out.
And on top of it, heavy snow blocks the Lan Pass.
What this lot says
A person speaks plainly, is punished for it, and is sent on a hard road in bad weather. Each line adds to the strain.
It is graded lowest. As a prompt for reflection, it asks whether the cost of speaking is one you have counted, and whether you have support for the trip.
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
Han Wengong is demoted (韓文公被貶)
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)
祇因直諫怒天顏 / 晝夜難離在馬鞍 / 主僕奔忙神亦倦 / 更加雪重擁藍關
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
只因直諫怒天顏 / 晝夜難離在馬鞍 / 主仆奔忙神亦倦 / 更加雪重擁藍關
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
祇因直諫怒天顏 / 晝夜難離在馬鞍 / 主僕奔忙神亦倦 / 更加雪重擁藍關
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 1: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 祇; luckeyes.com reads 只. This is the same character in a different written form.
- Line 3, character 2: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 僕; luckeyes.com reads 仆. This is the same character in a different written form.
- andy.hk adds its own note to the text: "僕本作樸".
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.