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Guanyin lots, no. 72

中籤
弄蜂須要求他蜜,只怕遭他尾上針。雖是眼前有異路,暗裡深藏荊棘林。

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. “弄蜂須要求他蜜” — which situation in your life does this line bring to mind?
  2. “只怕遭他尾上針” — in that situation, what matters most to you, and what would you hate to lose?
  3. “暗裡深藏荊棘林” — if you could take only one small step first, which would it be?

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.