Wong Tai Sin lot 90 of 100
Red Whisk elopes
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.
細整殘粧夜欲奔
座中李靖更何人
那知虯髯情鍾處
拔劍三回未敢陳
She carefully fixed her faded make-up, meaning to run away that night.
Among those seated, who could Li Jing be?
Who knew the heart of the Curly-Bearded Man was set on her too,
and three times Li Jing drew his sword and did not dare speak.
What this lot says
A woman chooses her own course, and a jealous man draws his sword and holds back. The verse centres on a choice made at night and a man who held back.
It is a middling lot about decisions made out of the usual order, and about restraint in someone else.
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
Red Whisk elopes (紅拂女私奔)
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)
細整殘粧夜欲奔 / 座中李靖更何人 / 那知虯髯情鍾處 / 拔劍三回未敢陳
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
細整殘妝夜欲奔 / 座中李靖更何人 / 那知虯髯情鐘處 / 拔劍三回未敢陳
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
細整殘粧夜欲奔 / 座中李靖更何人 / 那知虯髯情鐘處 / 拔劍三回未敢陳
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 4: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 粧; luckeyes.com reads 妝. This is the same character in a different written form.
- Line 3, character 6: fortunesticks.org reads 鍾; luckeyes.com and andy.hk read 鐘. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.