Wong Tai Sin lot 89 of 100
Ji Zha hangs up the sword
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.
他鄉遠歷佩魚腸
誰料徐君意欲將
既返願為相贈答
且懸樹下表情長
Travelling far in other lands, he wore a fish-gut sword.
Who would have guessed that Lord Xu wanted it?
On his return he was willing to give it in exchange,
so he hung it on a tree to show his lasting feeling.
What this lot says
A promise is kept even after the person it was made to has died: the sword is hung at the grave tree. The verse is about faithfulness to an unspoken wish.
The lot is graded lowest. It reads as grief paired with integrity.
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
Ji Zha hangs up the sword (吳季子掛劍)
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)
他鄉遠歷佩魚腸 / 誰料徐君意欲將 / 既返願為相贈答 / 且懸樹下表情長
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
他鄉遠歷佩魚腸 / 誰料徐君意欲將 / 既返願為相贈答 / 且懸樹下表情長
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
他鄉遠歷佩魚腸 / 誰料徐君意欲將 / 既返願為相贈答 / 且懸樹下表情長
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English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.