Wong Tai Sin lot 95 of 100
Nuwa smelts stone to mend the sky
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.
功勤一簣可成山
由少而多莫憚煩
作事畏辛今汝畫
補天煉石亦無難
With diligence, one basket of earth at a time can make a mountain.
Going from little to much, do not fear the trouble.
To shrink from the toil of a task is to draw your own limit.
Even smelting stone to mend the sky is not hard.
What this lot says
The verse is about steady effort: a mountain is built a basket at a time, and the limit people feel is often one they draw themselves.
It is a middling lot, and a straightforward encouragement to keep going with a big task one small part at a time.
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
Nuwa smelts stone to mend the sky (女媧煉石補天)
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)
功勤一簣可成山 / 由少而多莫憚煩 / 作事畏辛今汝畫 / 補天煉石亦無難
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
功勤一簣可成山 / 由少而多莫憚煩 / 作事畏辛今汝畫 / 補天煉石亦無難
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
功勤一簣可成山 / 由少而多莫憚煩 / 作事畏辛今汝畫 / 補天煉石亦無難
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English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.