Wong Tai Sin lot 48 of 100
Zhuo Wenjun sells wine
Middling (中平). 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.
繡閣聽琴自起思
改妝夤夜最歡時
可憐沽酒臨邛市
才子佳人兩下廚
In her embroidered chamber she hears the zither and begins to long.
At dead of night she changes her dress, the happiest hour.
Pity that they sell wine in Linqiong market,
the gifted man and the lovely woman, both working in the kitchen.
What this lot says
A romance that costs the couple their comfort: they end up running a wine stall together.
The verse is warm and a little sad. The grade is middling, as the happiness and the hardship come together.
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
Zhuo Wenjun sells wine (卓文君賣酒)
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)
繡閣聽琴自起思 / 改妝夤夜最歡時 / 可憐沽酒臨邛市 / 才子佳人兩下廚
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
繡閣聽琴自起思 / 改妝夤夜最歡時 / 可憐沽酒臨邛市 / 才子佳人兩下廚
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
繡閣聽琴自起思 / 改粧夤夜最歡時 / 可憐沽酒臨邛市 / 才子佳人兩下廚
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Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 2: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 妝; andy.hk reads 粧. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.