Wong Tai Sin lot 58 of 100
Jian Shu warns his lord
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.
秦師大敗在殽山
三帥皆擒盡放還
蹇叔諫言因不聽
倒戈捨甲返秦間
The army of Qin was crushed at Mount Xiao.
All three commanders were captured and then sent back.
Jian Shu had warned them, and they would not listen.
They turned back their spears and dropped their armour and returned to Qin.
What this lot says
A military defeat that was predicted by a counsellor whose warning was ignored.
The lot is graded lowest. Read it as a plain caution: if someone you trust has warned you, think again before you ignore it.
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
Jian Shu warns his lord (蹇叔諫君)
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)
秦師大敗在殽山 / 三帥皆擒盡放還 / 蹇叔諫言因不聽 / 倒戈捨甲返秦間
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
秦師大敗在淆山 / 三帥皆擒盡放還 / 蹇叔諫言因不聽 / 倒戈舍甲返秦間
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
秦師大敗在殽山 / 三帥皆擒盡放還 / 蹇叔諫言因不聽 / 倒戈捨甲返秦間
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Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 6: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 殽; luckeyes.com reads 淆. This is the same character in a different written form.
- Line 4, character 3: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 捨; luckeyes.com reads 舍. This is the same character in a different written form.
- The allusion in the lot title: fortunesticks.org names it 蹇叔諫君; luckeyes.com and andy.hk name it 蹇叔哭師.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.