Wong Tai Sin lot 60 of 100
Li Bai writes the reply to the foreign envoy
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.
和番醉筆似雲煙
日在長安酒店眠
倘遇唐皇頒令召
重呼不上木蘭船
Drunk, he wrote the reply to the foreign envoy like cloud and mist.
By day he sleeps in the wine shops of Chang'an.
If the emperor of Tang sends out an order to summon him,
call him again and again and he still will not board the magnolia boat.
What this lot says
A gifted writer who does his best work while drunk, and who refuses to come when summoned. The verse admires the talent and the independence.
The grade is middling: the independence is admirable, and it also costs something.
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
Li Bai writes the reply to the foreign envoy (李白醉和番書)
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)
和番醉筆似雲煙 / 日在長安酒店眠 / 倘遇唐皇頒令召 / 重呼不上木蘭船
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
和番醉筆似雲煙 / 日在長安酒店眠 / 倘遇唐皇頒令召 / 重呼不上木蘭船
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
和番醉筆似雲煙 / 日在長安酒店眠 / 倘遇唐皇頒令召 / 重呼不上木蘭船
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English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.