Wong Tai Sin lot 98 of 100
Guan and Bao share the gold
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.
入山種玉嫌田狹
掘地尋金厭客多
富貴貧窮天注定
世人何苦力奔波
He goes into the hills to plant jade and finds the field too narrow.
He digs the ground for gold and is tired of the many guests.
Wealth and poverty are fixed by heaven.
Why should people wear themselves out chasing?
What this lot says
The verse laughs at the restless pursuit of gain: no field is big enough and no amount of gold comes without visitors.
It is a middling lot, and a prompt to ask what you are chasing and what it costs you.
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
Guan and Bao share the gold (管鮑分金)
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)
入山種玉嫌田狹 / 掘地尋金厭客多 / 富貴貧窮天注定 / 世人何苦力奔波
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
入山種玉嫌田狹 / 掘地尋金厭客多 / 富貴貧窮天注定 / 世人何苦力奔波
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
入山種玉嫌田狹 / 掘地尋金厭客多 / 富貴貧窮天注定 / 世人何苦力奔波
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Where the sources differ
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 掘地尋金.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.