Wong Tai Sin lot 97 of 100
Kang Shun goes fishing
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.
憑欄晚眺倚南樓
滿目風光景色幽
一葉小舟頻下餌
漁翁釣得有魚否
Leaning on the rail of the south tower, I look out at dusk.
My eyes are full of scenery, quiet and deep.
A boat like a single leaf keeps dropping its bait.
Has the old fisherman caught any fish?
What this lot says
A calm evening view, a small boat and an unanswered question about the catch. The verse ends without saying.
It is a middling lot about patient effort without a result yet in view.
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
Kang Shun goes fishing (康順釣魚)
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)
憑欄晚眺倚南樓 / 滿目風光景色幽 / 一葉小舟頻下餌 / 漁翁釣得有魚否
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
憑欄晚眺倚南樓 / 滿目風光景色幽 / 一葉小舟頻下鉺 / 漁翁釣得有魚無
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
憑欄晚眺倚南樓 / 滿目風光景色幽 / 一葉小舟頻下餌 / 漁翁釣得有魚否
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3, character 7: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 餌; luckeyes.com reads 鉺. This is a different character.
- Line 4, character 7: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 否; luckeyes.com reads 無. This is a different character.
- andy.hk adds its own note to the text: "否本作不".
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.