Offending Immortal Signs is Condemned by Heaven (Taiping)
There is a Jinjing Mountain in Pihua County of Piuzhou. It was here that the fairy Zhang Liying ascended to heaven during the reign of King Wu Rui of Changsha, and the Taoist temple where she practiced is still standing. The rock here is several hundred feet high, and there are two wooden cranes on the edge of the rock, which are ridden by the two fairies. There is an iron lock hanging under the rock, it is not used to mark the road, I do not know how to put it on. The two wooden cranes, always with the change of the seasons and turn, no difference.
There was a young general named Shi Chon in the Baisheng Army, who could roll a bamboo mat into a well shaft and jump in and out freely. Once, he met a woman from the village under the rock and asked her to marry him. The woman said, “If you can shoot the crane’s eye, I will marry you.” Shichun hit the target with one shot. Unexpectedly, he immediately felt weakness in his arm and came back to bed sick. In a dream-like state, he saw two female Taoist priests walking around the bed, touching his eyes with their hands every time they walked around. After four or five rounds, they left. Soon Shichun died of blindness. The wooden crane that was shot never turned again, but the other one still turned as before.
Not listening to the advice of the immortals, greed for money wasted his life (Ouyang Ziyun)
Gao Wuniang, a very beautiful woman from Luoyang, was married to Immortal Li. Immortal Li was relegated from heaven to earth, and since he and Gao Wuniang became friends, they lived in Luoyang for a long time and made gold refining their business. He also passed this magic to Gao Wuniang.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Wuniang and Li Xianren had been married for five or six years. One night, after five drums, they heard a call in the air for Immortal Li, who put on his clothes and went out. After talking, he came back to Gao Wuniang and said: “I am a heavenly immortal, because of a small crime, and was relegated to earth, now my punishment has been completed, the sky to call me back. I can no longer live on earth, many years as husband and wife, will be separated from each other, how can I not sad? After I leave, you can refine the gold and silver self-sufficiency, must not be passed on to others. Also can not let others more refining, otherwise, not only hurt yourself, I’m afraid it will also be detrimental to others.” Immortal Li flew away after he spoke.
Gao Wuniang initially acted in accordance with the words of Immortal Li, but later sold too much silver, and was denounced by the Department of the Square. Li Qi, the young Yin of Henan at that time, knew about her, and released Gao Wuniang without pursuing her. Afterwards, he secretly sent someone to summon Gao Wuniang and asked her to burn more than ten kilns of silverware for him. Li Qi also passed this on to the important people of the dynasty. Within a year, Li Qi and Gao Wuniang both died. People at that time thought that this was a punishment from heaven.
(Source: Taiping Guangji)
Recent Comments