Skip to main content
MoZhu MOZHU
  1. Home
  2. Fortune sticks
  3. Poem library
  4. Guanyin lots
  5. Lot 35
Guanyin lots

Guanyin lots, no. 35

中籤
衣冠重整舊宿風,道是無功卻有功。掃卻當途荊棘礙,三人共議事相同。

The verse is shown in the original Chinese; we don't publish translations of the verses yet.

The painting

Mountain road · Range after range: a long road, walked at your own pace.

Grade

中籤 · Middle

Three questions to ask yourself

  1. “衣冠重整舊宿風” — if this line were a painting, where would you be standing in it?
  2. “道是無功卻有功” — what is harder to let go of here: the outcome, or the process?
  3. “三人共議事相同” — what is the smallest thing you could do for it today?

About this set

A folk collection of fortune-stick poems named after Guanyin; this site only explains the text. It is the most widely known set, 100 in all. Most verses are four lines of seven characters, graded upper, middle or lower, and each is often paired with a story from history or opera.

Draw a lotLots are drawn at random by the site; the AI reading is original and for entertainment only.

The poems are traditional folk texts in the public domain, checked against several published versions. The ink paintings are drawn by the site from each poem's imagery. For cultural entertainment only — it can't predict the future and isn't advice of any kind. MoZhu is not affiliated with any temple or religious organization.