Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Kitchen God Hall — Lot 6
This tube asks about daily bread. Run the year ahead through your mind.
Kitchen God Hall · Lot 6Fair
腊月糖瓜甜又粘做人嘴甜少结怨多讲好话多积德家中怨气化炊烟
What it means: Be kind with your mouth and the house warms up.
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
Kind words leave less resentment at home. Say the good thing, do not reopen the old argument, and one meal can warm the whole room.
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.