Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Kitchen God Hall — Lot 1
This tube asks about daily bread. Run the year ahead through your mind.
Kitchen God Hall · Lot 1Excellent
灶膛火旺米粮足四季衣食不用愁勤俭二字传家宝细水长流福自留
What it means: Enough to eat and wear. Keep it by being frugal.
The verse is kept in Chinese. It is a four-line regulated poem — rhyme and metre are part of the thing itself, and they do not survive translation. The reading below is written in English.
The reading
The pot is full and the store is full. Hold on to thrift and the good years last. Do not be extravagant; let it run steady.
The Kitchen God's lots are the most practical — firewood, rice, oil, salt.
How to read this grade
Excellent is the highest of the four bands, and the rarest. It means the timing, the people around you and your own frame of mind all line up. It does not guarantee an outcome — it says this road has little resistance and is worth walking to the end.
All eighty lots are lines written for Hanlu Temple. They are here to help you put a question into words — no promise, and no medical, financial or legal advice.
Draw this lot in the hall
Walk to the Kitchen God Hall, sit down on a cushion and put your palms together. The tube of lots stands by the altar. A lot you drew in the same hall on the same day is remembered, so you can come back and read it again.