Oracles of the Nation-Guarding Lord 护国嘉济江东王灵签

The original text has no attributed author.

It is a single volume included in the Zhengyi Section of The Daozang.

Oracles of the Nation-Guarding Lord

The preface includes the Stele of the Miracles at the Sacred Salvation Temple in Ganzhou, composed by Song Lian, Director of the National Academy, in the Xinhai year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty (1371). The stele records that Shi Gu, a native of the Qin state, had repeatedly manifested divine miracles from the time of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, delivering the people, quelling wars and calamities. Emperors and officials of successive dynasties, in recognition of Shi Gu's divine efficacy, built a temple to enshrine him and conferred successive honorary titles upon him. It states: "During the Baoqing reign of the Song Dynasty (1225~1227), Fu Ye of Putian served as the eastern magistrate of Gan County. Admiring the deity's deeds, he composed one hundred divinatory verses for people to consult for divination." Based on this record, the divinatory verses in this book were presumably composed by Fu Ye of the Southern Song Dynasty, and later Taoist priests of the Ming Dynasty compiled them together with Song Lian's stele text into a single work. The book contains one hundred spirit lots. Each lot is accompanied by a seven-character quatrain, a four-character poem and a three-character poem, which interpret the good and bad fortune, blessings and misfortunes indicated by the lot text.