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Wong Tai Sin Sign 2 · Wang Daozhen Stumbles into the Peach Blossom Spring

王道真誤入桃源

Very GoodStick #2 meaning
OverviewWong Tai Sin Sign 2
Name
Wang Daozhen Stumbles into the Peach Blossom Spring
Grade
Very Good
Use
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Withered woods turn green again in spring.

Luxuriant leaves and fragrant blossoms come with butterflies.

Along with the Peach, Fairyland flowers mingle in purple and red, A fishing boat having lost its way finally reaches land.

WONG TAI SIN
Traditional fortune poem
Story

Wang Daozhen Stumbles into the Peach Blossom Spring

This sign references Tao Yuanming's famous story 'Peach Blossom Spring' from 4th century China, combined with a character named Wang Daozhen who accidentally discovers this paradise. In the tale, a fisherman follows floating peach petals upstream and stumbles through a hidden cave into an idyllic village where people live in harmony, untouched by the outside world's troubles. The residents descended from refugees who fled war centuries ago and created their own perfect society. When the fisherman tries to return and bring others, he can never find the entrance again. The story became China's most famous utopia myth, representing the human longing for simplicity and peace. Wang Daozhen's 'mistake' of getting lost becomes his greatest fortune—sometimes our wrong turns lead us exactly where we need to be.

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