Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Kitchen God Hall — Lot 3
This tube asks about daily bread. Run the year ahead through your mind.
Kitchen God Hall · Lot 3Good
一锅一灶见真章粗茶淡饭养人长莫羡他人酒肉臭自家清粥最养肠
What it means: Enough is enough. Plain food tastes of something.
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
Plain rice and greens are what actually nourish. Do not turn your nose up at your own congee — a contented person finds everything good.
The Kitchen God's lots are the most practical — firewood, rice, oil, salt.
How to read this grade
Good sits one step below Excellent: the direction is right, but the work has to be carried with diligence and patience. If the verse talks about keeping, gathering or holding steady, that is the point of the lot.
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.