Wang Fajin, a native of Linjin, Jianzhou, was a good Taoist at an early age. Although there was no Taoist priest living there, he did not treat the idol with contempt and insult when he was playing. When he was more than ten years old, a female Taoist priest passed by his house when he was traveling from Jianzhou to other counties, and his Parents entrusted her to protect him because of his admiration for Taoism. The female Taoist priest gave him a copy of “The Little Book of Zheng Yi Yan Sheng” and named him Fa Jin. She told him to concentrate on incense and fasting. He ate only tree seeds and did not eat, and from Time to time, inspiration came to him.
At that time, there was a famine in Sanchuan, and the price of Food was soaring. Five or six tenths of the people died. Most people gathered wild kudzu root and yam to feed their hunger. Suddenly three green-clad children descended to the courtyard of his house, and they said to Fa Jin, “The Great Emperor, because you have early immortal bones, converted your heart to be sincere, and never forget your morality, ordered us to welcome you to heaven to accept an errand.” Without realizing it, Fa-jin soared into the air and reached the residence of the Jade Emperor.
The Great Emperor ordered someone to reward him with a jade cup of haze syrup to drink. Slowly, he said to him, “Man is on the largest side of the three talents of heaven, earth and man, embodying the harmony of heaven and earth. It is not easy to obtain human form and be born in the middle earth. The heaven stimulates the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the earth bears the spiritual beauty of the five elements of Gold, wood, water, fire and earth to grow grains and fruits to nourish man. However, people do not know the kindness of heaven and earth, and easily abandon the grains and silk and linen, so that the farmers who plant the land and the women who weave can not have enough to eat, and the strength is exhausted and can not protect them from the cold, and they work in vain, but no one cares for them. Recently, the earth divisions have reported that the world is disgusted with the grains and does not pay attention to the fundamentals of food and clothing. I have ordered the House of Taihua to take back the gods of the grains and let the people starve because of the failure of their seeds, so as to show the punishment and warn people’s minds. However, shortly afterwards, I received a decree from the Supreme Being that the Great Way loves living beings and must first save things. Although the gods of heaven and earth chastised them, the foolish people did not know where their faults came from, so of course they did not have a way to repent and return. Today, you are ordered to return to the human world, to warn the people in the lower world, so that they will repent of their sins and cherish their agriculture and mulberry like a precious treasure, which is also your Yin Gong. In the year of the dragon and the tiger, I will call you again.”
Fa Jin finally ascended to heaven again in the twelfth year of Tian Bao, in the year of the reign of The Emperor.
(Source: Taiping Guangji)
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