Wong Tai Sin lot 73 of 100
Sun Lin tops the examination
Highest (上上). 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.
夾道花香襯馬蹄
藍袍改換錦衣歸
滿街紅粉皆爭羨
翹首芳名雁塔題
Flower scent lines the road and sets off the horse's hooves.
He has swapped the blue gown for brocade and is going home.
Along the whole street the painted ladies compete to admire him.
Craning their necks, they see his name written on the Wild Goose Pagoda.
What this lot says
The top place in the imperial examination and a triumphant ride home. Everything in the verse celebrates success.
It is graded highest. Read it as a lot of recognition for long effort, with the caution that every lot is a prompt, not a promise.
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
Sun Lin tops the examination (孫霖中狀元)
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)
夾道花香襯馬蹄 / 藍袍改換錦衣歸 / 滿街紅粉皆爭羨 / 翹首芳名雁塔題
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
夾道花香襯馬蹄 / 藍袍改換錦衣歸 / 滿街紅粉皆爭羨 / 翹首芳名雁塔題
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
夾道花香襯馬蹄 / 藍袍改換錦衣歸 / 滿街紅粉皆爭羨 / 翹首芳名雁塔題
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 倫文叙高中.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.