Wong Tai Sin lot 56 of 100
Patriarch Lu's peachwood sword
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.
安知此劍不成龍
見水都應出袖中
他日飛騰千萬里
上空妖嬌有雲從
Who knows that this sword will not become a dragon?
On meeting water it will come out of the sleeve.
One day it will soar ten thousand miles,
and, graceful in the sky, it will have clouds to follow it.
What this lot says
A small, plain object turns out to have great potential. The verse promises nothing on a timetable, and says only that the change may come when it meets the right condition.
It reads as a good lot about unrecognised potential and about waiting for the right moment.
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
Patriarch Lu's peachwood sword (呂祖桃木劍)
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)
安知此劍不成龍 / 見水都應出袖中 / 他日飛騰千萬里 / 上空妖嬌有雲從
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
安知此劍不成龍 / 見水都應出袖中 / 他日飛騰千萬里 / 上空妖嬌有雲從
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
安知此劍不成龍 / 見水都應出袖中 / 他日飛騰千萬里 / 上空妖嬌有雲從
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 桃木劍化龍.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.