Wong Tai Sin lot 65 of 100
The last ruler loses his state
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.
隋滅陳時戟伐紛
都因妖媚閉明君
東奔西走無藏息
井裡胭脂隱玉人
When Sui destroyed Chen, spears clashed in confusion.
It was all because bewitching charm had shut out a clear-sighted ruler.
Running east and west with nowhere to hide or rest,
in the well, rouge hides a lovely woman.
What this lot says
A ruler distracted by pleasure loses his state and ends up hiding in a well. The verse shows the cost of neglecting your duties.
It is graded lowest and reads as a serious warning about distraction at a time when attention matters.
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
The last ruler loses his state (後主失國)
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)
隋滅陳時戟伐紛 / 都因妖媚閉明君 / 東奔西走無藏息 / 井裡胭脂隱玉人
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
隋滅陳時戟伐紛 / 都因妖媚閉明君 / 東奔西走無藏息 / 井里胭脂隱玉人
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
隋滅陳時戟伐紛 / 都因妖媚閉明君 / 東奔西赴無藏息 / 井裡胭脂隱玉人
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3, character 4: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 走; andy.hk reads 赴. This is a different character.
- Line 4, character 2: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 裡; luckeyes.com reads 里. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.