Wong Tai Sin lot 7 of 100
Xue Rengui comes home
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.
秋來征雁向南歸
紅葉紛紛滿院飛
砧搗城頭聲切耳
江楓如火在漁磯
Autumn comes and the wild geese head south for home.
Red leaves fall thick and fast across the courtyard.
From the city wall comes the beat of the laundry mallet, sharp in the ear.
River maples burn like fire by the fishing rock.
What this lot says
Autumn images of return and of cold on the way: geese flying home, leaves dropping, the sound of clothes being beaten against stones for the winter.
The mood is homecoming with a note of sadness. It suits a question about going back to something, and it asks you to expect the season to be turning.
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
Xue Rengui comes home (仁貴歸家)
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)
秋來征雁向南歸 / 紅葉紛紛滿院飛 / 砧搗城頭聲切耳 / 江楓如火在漁磯
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
秋來征雁向南歸 / 紅葉紛紛滿院飛 / 砧搗城頭聲切耳 / 江楓如火在漁磯
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
秋來征雁向南歸 / 紅葉紛紛滿院飛 / 碪搗城頭聲切耳 / 江楓如火在漁磯
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Where the sources differ
- Line 3, character 1: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 砧; andy.hk reads 碪. This is the same character in a different written form.
- The grade: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) gives 中平 (Middling).
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 丁山射雁.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.