Wong Tai Sin lot 88 of 100
Hua Mulan joins the army
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.
替父從軍膽氣雄
鬚眉巾幗幾人同
以身報國忠而孝
笑煞當時眾鉅公
Taking her father's place in the army, her courage is heroic.
Among men with beards and women with hairpins, how many are her equal?
She repaid the state with her own person, loyal and dutiful.
She makes the great men of that day a laughing stock.
What this lot says
A daughter takes her father's place on campaign. The verse praises her courage and loyalty and says few could match her.
It is a good lot about acting for others at a personal cost, and about surprising those who expected less.
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
Hua Mulan joins the army (花木蘭從軍)
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)
替父從軍膽氣雄 / 鬚眉巾幗幾人同 / 以身報國忠而孝 / 笑煞當時眾鉅公
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
替父從軍膽氣雄 / 須眉巾幗幾人同 / 以身報國忠而孝 / 笑煞當時眾臣公
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
替父從軍膽氣雄 / 鬚眉巾幗幾人同 / 以身報國忠而孝 / 笑煞當時眾鉅公
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Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 1: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 鬚; luckeyes.com reads 須. This is the same character in a different written form.
- Line 4, character 6: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 鉅; luckeyes.com reads 臣. This is a different character.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.