Wong Tai Sin lot 96 of 100
Wenji longs for Han
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.
羌笛頻吹韻更悲
異鄉作客觸歸期
南來孤雁如憐我
煩寄家書轉達知
A Qiang flute is played again and again, and its tune is sadder still.
A guest in a foreign land is reminded of the day for going home.
Lone wild goose from the south, if you pity me,
please carry a letter home and let them know.
What this lot says
Homesickness and a wish to send word to those at home. The speaker has no way to get a message through except by asking a passing bird.
It is a middling lot about distance and delay. It reads as a picture of slow news and slow travel.
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
Wenji longs for Han (文姬思漢)
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)
羌笛頻吹韻更悲 / 異鄉作客觸歸期 / 南來孤雁如憐我 / 煩寄家書轉達知
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
羌笛頻吹韻更悲 / 異鄉作客觸歸期 / 南來孤雁如憐我 / 煩寄家書轉達知
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
羌笛頻吹韻更悲 / 異鄉作客觸歸思 / 南來孤雁如憐我 / 煩寄家書轉達知
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 7: fortunesticks.org and luckeyes.com read 期; andy.hk reads 思. This is a different character.
- andy.hk adds its own note to the text: "思本作期".
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.