Wong Tai Sin lot 69 of 100
Han Wengong sacrifices to the crocodiles
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.
忠義存心官十載
年豐民樂惠難忘
鱷魚毒害都能息
禱告長江北海王
He kept loyalty and duty in his heart through ten years in office.
The harvest was good and the people content, a kindness hard to forget.
The poison and harm of the crocodiles could all be stopped.
He prayed to the lords of the long river and the northern sea.
What this lot says
An official with a clear conscience, a good harvest and a public danger that ends after he acts.
It reads as a good lot about sound conduct in a position of responsibility, with a favourable result.
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
Han Wengong sacrifices to the crocodiles (韓文公祭鱷魚)
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)
忠義存心官十載 / 年豐民樂惠難忘 / 鱷魚毒害都能息 / 禱告長江北海王
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
忠義存心官十載 / 年丰民樂惠難忘 / 鱷魚毒害都能息 / 禱告長江北海王
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
忠義存心官十載 / 年豐民樂惠難忘 / 鱷魚毒害都能息 / 禱告長江北海王
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Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 2: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 豐; luckeyes.com reads 丰. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.