Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Kitchen God Hall — Lot 5
This tube asks about daily bread. Run the year ahead through your mind.
Kitchen God Hall · Lot 5Fair
灶上功夫在火候做人做事同一筹急火慢火分得清日子越过越顺溜
What it means: Mind the heat. Neither rush nor let it drag.
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
Running a house is like running a fire — a hot flame and a low flame do different jobs. Know which one a thing needs and the days go smoothly.
The Kitchen God's lots are the most practical — firewood, rice, oil, salt.
How to read this grade
Fair is not a bad lot. It means even — no great tailwind, no wall. This band most often lands on doing the thing in front of you well and not changing roads yet.
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.