Wong Tai Sin lot 75 of 100
Lun Wenxu teases his wife
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.
婚姻豈可厭家貧
文敘夫妻兩拆分
一旦首登龍虎榜
戲妻樓墜自身亡
How can a marriage be despised for being poor?
Wenxu and his wife were torn apart.
Once he took first place on the Dragon and Tiger list,
he made sport of his wife, and a fall from the tower cost a life.
What this lot says
Success changes how a man treats his wife, and the verse ends in a death. It is a hard verse.
It is graded lowest. Read it as a warning about contempt on both sides: for a partner's poverty, and for someone who has fallen after you have risen.
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
Lun Wenxu teases his wife (倫文敘戲妻)
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)
婚姻豈可厭家貧 / 文敘夫妻兩拆分 / 一旦首登龍虎榜 / 戲妻樓墜自身亡
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
婚姻豈可厭家貧 / 文敘夫妻兩拆分 / 一旦首登龍虎榜 / 戲妻樓墜自身亡
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
婚姻起可厭家貧 / 文敘夫妻兩拆分 / 一旦首登龍虎榜 / 戲妻樓墜自身亡
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 3: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 豈; andy.hk reads 起. This is a different character.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.