Translation of longxing temple Xirang Collection in Yongzhou

Liutang Zongyuan

original text

There is a great hall in the northeast of longxing temple, Yongzhou. The place of the great hall rises from a brick, four steps wide and one foot and five inches high. From the beginning, it was also a hall, and it was high above. Anyone who holds it will die. Yongzhou lives in the Chu-Yue area and is haunted. Therefore, people in the temple are all gods, and people dare not be outsiders.

Historian Tian's record and Hanshu have a long space, but they both died. The rest land of the Gan Mao League, and the land covering it is also a class. Yesterday in a different book, it was recorded that the flood was terrible. The gun stole the emperor's land and drowned the flood. The emperor ordered Zhu Rong to kill the gun in the feather suburbs, and he said nothing. Today is the earth, which has been demoted and died unfortunately. Is it the emperor's favorite? There are many epidemics in the south, and those who work die first, then those who hold the clock die of the epidemic, and the land and Wu can be gods. I'm afraid of scholars. I sign letters but different books, so I take notes in class.

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There is a big hall in the northeast corner of longxing temple, Yongzhou. There is a brick place in the living room, four steps wide and one foot and five inches high. At first I thought it was a hall (uneven), but as soon as I leveled it, it got up again, and everyone who leveled it with a shovel died. Yongzhou, located between Chu and Yue, where people are superstitious about ghosts and gods. So people in the temple regard it as a miracle, and no one dares to level the bulging soil.

Both Records of the Historian Tianguanshu and Hanshu have divination about land uplift, but there is no specific statement (that is, shovel the uplifted soil and die). Gan Mao has formed alliances in other parts of the country, and this kind of thing is likely to happen there. In the strange books of the past, it was recorded that the flood was terrible. Zhang stole the fallow soil of the jade emperor to stop the flood, so the jade emperor ordered Zhu Rong to kill Zhang in the feather suburbs. This statement is not common. In this soil now, anyone who bulldozes him will die unfortunately. Is this what the Jade Emperor likes to do? There are many plagues in the south, and those who work die first, so those who dig with shovels die of labor and plague. Where can there be any divinity in the soil? I'm afraid that when students come here, they will only believe the strange book, so they will write it down in class.