Wong Tai Sin lot 63 of 100
Yan Hui delights in the Way and is content in poverty
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.
陋巷簞瓢不足愁
旁人見此甚為憂
不知樂道忘貧乏
亞聖芳名萬古留
In a mean lane, a bamboo basket and a gourd ladle are nothing to grieve over.
Onlookers see this and are very worried.
They do not know that he delights in the Way and forgets his want.
The Second Sage's good name has lasted ten thousand ages.
What this lot says
Other people pity a person who is quite content. The verse says contentment based on what you value is not the same as being poor.
It reads as a good lot about inner satisfaction and about not letting others' worry define your situation.
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
Yan Hui delights in the Way and is content in poverty (顏回樂道安貧)
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)
陋巷簞瓢不足愁 / 旁人見此甚為憂 / 不知樂道忘貧乏 / 亞聖芳名萬古留
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
陋巷簞瓢不足愁 / 旁人見此甚為憂 / 不知樂道忘貧乏 / 亞聖芳名萬古留
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
陋巷簞瓢不足愁 / 旁人見此甚為憂 / 不知樂道忘貧乏 / 亞聖芳名萬古留
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.