Wong Tai Sin lot 62 of 100
Confucius keeps to the Way
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.
美玉於斯韞匱藏
休求善價費商量
沽之亦可隨相待
此物何須自看常
A fine jade is here, kept hidden in its case.
Do not look for a good price and waste breath bargaining.
It can be sold too, when you wait for the right buyer.
Why must you yourself regard this as ordinary?
What this lot says
A valuable thing is kept safe while waiting for the right person to want it. The advice is not to hurry into a poor sale.
It is a middling lot about patience and self-worth. It does not say when the buyer will come.
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
Confucius keeps to the Way (孔子守道)
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)
美玉於斯韞匱藏 / 休求善價費商量 / 沽之亦可隨相待 / 此物何須自看常
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
美玉于斯韞匱藏 / 休求善價費商量 / 沽之亦可隨相待 / 此物何須自看常
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
美玉於斯韞匱藏 / 休求善價費商量 / 沽之亦可隨相待 / 此物何須自看常
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 3: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 於; luckeyes.com reads 于. This is the same character in a different written form.
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 美玉藏金.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.