Wong Tai Sin lot 99 of 100
Han Wengong meets snow
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.
雪擁橋頭馬不前
風狂漁父莫開船
水流花謝人誰惜
早立堅心志勿偏
Snow piles up at the bridgehead and the horse will not go on.
The wind is wild, fisherman: do not set out.
Water flows on and the flowers fall; who feels sorry for it?
Make your resolve firm early, and let your aim not stray.
What this lot says
Bad weather stops travel, and the verse advises waiting. It ends with advice to settle your purpose firmly and keep to it.
It is a middling lot about holding off when conditions are poor and not losing your direction while you wait.
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
Han Wengong meets snow (韓文公遇雪)
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)
雪擁橋頭馬不前 / 風狂漁父莫開船 / 水流花謝人誰惜 / 早立堅心志勿偏
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
雪擁橋頭馬不前 / 風狂漁父莫開船 / 水流花謝人誰惜 / 早立堅心志勿偏
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
雪擁橋頭馬不前 / 風狂漁父莫開船 / 水流花謝人誰惜 / 早立堅心志勿偏
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- The allusion in the lot title: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk name it 韓文公遇雪; luckeyes.com names it 韓文公遇害.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.