结草衔环, knotting grass and holding jade ring in
the beak. It was two stories. Normally they means gratitude to someone. The
first one 结草 was happened in 594
BC. The 秦Qin kingdom fought with
晋Jin kingdom. The
general of Qin named 杜回 and the general of Jin named 魏颗. 杜回 was the most brave warrior at that time. It seemed the魏颗 would lost this battle. But strange things happened, when
they were be inextricably involved, 魏颗 found there was an old
man knotting the grass in front of杜回. 杜回 seemed didn’t see him and whenever his horse lift hoof the
knot would trip it. Later, the horse fell down, then魏颗 caught杜回easily. 魏颗 asked him, ‘did you see the old man that knotting the
grass?’ 杜回 said, ‘I saw no one’.
That night, 魏颗 dreamed the old man came to see him and told him, ‘General,
I am the father of 祖姬, I come here to repay
your kindness to my daughter.’ Then魏颗 realized the story. At their time people had a cruel
tradition as funeral murder. When a nobleman dead, some of his concubines would
be the martyrs for their love. 祖姬 was
his father’s loved concubine. Before his father was alive, he had said, ‘I
never wanted anybody to be martyr for me.’
Yet when he was laying dying he changed mind said, ‘let祖姬 be my martyr, I loved
her so much.’ But魏颗 didn’t do this, he said that a dying man’s mind was
confused, we could not trust on it. So the 祖姬 was saved. Today her
father come to pay this kindness to 魏颗. (It means the old man is a ghost. So not everybody could
see him.)
The
second story was 衔环. The father of 杨震（59-124）named 杨宝. When he was a nine years old boy, he saw a yellowbird was hurt by eagle and
dropped on the ground while a group of ants was biting it. He saved the
yellowbird and bring it to his home. He caring it for a hundred days and the
yellowbird flying away. That night he dreamed a child wearing a yellow cloth carrying four jade rings and he told him, ‘I
am the envoy of a god, I am gratitude that you have saved me. Here are four
white jade rings, they will guaranty that four generations of your decedents
will be high rank officer with good behaviour.’ When he waked up, he found the jade rings and
it was true, all he son, grandson, great grandson and great-great grandson were
good behaved high rank officers.
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