Wong Tai Sin lot 5 of 100
Lady Han cherishes the flowers
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.
東園昨夜狂風急
萬紫千紅亦盡傾
幸有惜花人早起
培回根本復栽生
Last night in the eastern garden the wind was fierce.
Ten thousand purples and reds were all knocked down.
Luckily a person who loves flowers rose early.
They set the roots right and planted them again.
What this lot says
A storm has done damage, but someone who cares gets there in time. The verse turns on that early rising.
It reads as a lot about repair. The harm is real, and recovery depends on attention given soon, before the loss is complete.
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
Lady Han cherishes the flowers (韓夫人惜花)
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)
東園昨夜狂風急 / 萬紫千紅亦盡傾 / 幸有惜花人早起 / 培回根本復栽生
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
東園昨夜狂風急 / 萬紫千紅亦盡傾 / 幸有惜花人早起 / 培回根本復栽生
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
東園昨夜狂風急 / 萬紫千紅亦盡傾 / 幸有惜花人早起 / 培回根本復栽生
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 陶淵明栽花.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.