Mazu Kau Chim
Mazu Kau Chim Sign 95
Sign 95 of 100
The verse
墻圍竹木稻盈田雞犬桑麻境地偏完却官糧無別事太平世界一神仙
In English
Walls enclose bamboo and trees; rice fills the fields.Chickens, dogs, mulberry, and hemp mark a secluded place.Once official grain and taxes are fully paid, there is nothing else.In a peaceful world, one lives like an immortal.
Textual notes
CHANCE reminds you not to owe taxes or fines. Ordinary people should not fight officials; then there is peace. The source scrape had encoding noise in the first line, corrected here from the raw page.
The twelve aspects
A temple slip does not give one answer. The same four lines are read differently depending on what you came to ask about, and these are the twelve readings traditionally set down for this sign.
- Career and Recognition
- Cultivate the five virtues; fame has its time.
- Business
- Trade fairly; goods bring benefit.
- Pregnancy and Children
- Congratulations; a good seed will surely be obtained.
- Health
- Doing good is greatest joy; illness lightens and the body is safe.
- Marriage
- A matchmaker brings it together; good affinity is set by heaven.
- Travel
- Good things continue; wealth and children arrive.
- Household
- Fortune is fundamentally smooth; success can be reached at home.
- Wealth
- With land there is wealth; seek and it will be there.
- Current Fortune
- It comes by the proper way; the time has already arrived.
- Lost Item
- Look before and after; search and it is found.
- Farming
- The year is abundant; thrift is still especially necessary.
- Legal Matters
- Powerful people support you; the suit will be won.