Deng mi: "Tian yun ren gong li bu qiong" 灯谜："天运人功理不穷"
by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (ca. 1715–ca. 1763)
Dynasty: Qing 清 (1644–1911)
Included in: Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹. Gao E 高鶚 (ed.). Hongloumeng 红楼梦 Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1973. 259.
Translations
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David Hawkes (1923–2007): Lantern-riddle: "Man's works and heaven's laws I execute"
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in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 448. -
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): Lantern-riddle: "No end to the labours of men, to heaven's decrees"
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in: Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益. A Dream of Red Mansions: Volume 1. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1978. p. 324.
天运人功理不穷，有功无运也难逢。 因何鎮日紛紛乱？只为阴阳数不通。 ——打一用物。