Wong Tai Sin lot 87 of 100
Lu Shilong receives a guest
Middling (中平). 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.
會談華座逞英雄
究竟誰人秉大公
一云日下荀鳴鶴
一說雲間陸士龍
At a fine seat in the meeting, each shows off his prowess.
In the end, who has the great impartial view?
One says: Xun Minghe, under the sun.
Another says: Lu Shilong, among the clouds.
What this lot says
Two men introduce themselves with a flourish, and the verse asks who should judge. It is about rivalry and presentation.
It is a middling lot. It reads as a contest with no clear winner, where a fair third party is needed.
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
Lu Shilong receives a guest (陸士龍會客)
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)
會談華座逞英雄 / 究竟誰人秉大公 / 一云日下荀鳴鶴 / 一說雲間陸士龍
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
會談華座逞英雄 / 究竟誰人秉大公 / 一雲日下荀鳴鶴 / 一說雲間陸士龍
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
會談華座逞英雄 / 究竟誰人秉大公 / 一云日下荀鳴鶴 / 一說雲間陸士龍
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3, character 2: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 云; luckeyes.com reads 雲. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.