Wong Tai Sin lot 61 of 100
Twelve gold tablets recall Yue Fei
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.
十二金牌速召回
奸雄設計幾時灰
可憐一旦功勞散
老少扶車不斷哀
Twelve gold tablets summon him back in haste.
The scheming man's plan: when will it turn to ash?
Pity that all his achievements are lost in a single day.
Old and young cling to the cart, grieving without end.
What this lot says
A loyal general is recalled by an order he cannot refuse, and the people grieve. The verse is about merit undone by someone else's scheming.
It is graded lowest. Read it as a lot about being overruled by forces you cannot control, and about the value of support.
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
Twelve gold tablets recall Yue Fei (十二金牌召岳飛)
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)
十二金牌速召回 / 奸雄設計幾時灰 / 可憐一旦功勞散 / 老少扶車不斷哀
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
十二金牌速召回 / 奸雄設計幾時灰 / 可憐一旦功勞散 / 老少扶車不斷哀
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
十二金牌速召回 / 奸雄設計幾時灰 / 可憐一旦功勞散 / 老少扶車不斷哀
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Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 7: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) reads 靈 where the three sites read 灰.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.