Wong Tai Sin lot 94 of 100
The Bearded Gentleman sails off to Fusang
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.
一窟難容兩虎兒
乘風別嶺各棲之
名山自守為巢穴
可免傷殘後悔遲
One den can hardly hold two tiger cubs.
Ride the wind and each settle on a separate ridge.
Keep to your own famous mountain as your lair.
That way you avoid injury, and regret that comes too late.
What this lot says
Two strong parties cannot share one place. The verse advises that each should take a separate ground.
It is a middling lot about avoiding a head-on contest. Parting ways early is presented as the safer course.
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
The Bearded Gentleman sails off to Fusang (髯公遠走扶桑)
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)
一窟難容兩虎兒 / 乘風別嶺各棲之 / 名山自守為巢穴 / 可免傷殘後悔遲
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
一窟難容兩虎兒 / 乘風別嶺各棲之 / 名山自守為巢穴 / 可免傷殘後悔遲
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
一窟難客兩虎兒 / 乘風別嶺各棲之 / 名山自守為巢穴 / 可免傷殘後悔遲
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Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 4: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 容; andy.hk reads 客. This is a different character.
- The allusion in the lot title: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com name it 髯公遠走扶桑; andy.hk names it 劉琦奔江夏.
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 兩虎相爭.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.