黄粱美梦：Golden Millet Dream. 沈既济 lived in Tang
Dynasty, in his《story
of pillow》he
said:
A youth 卢 passing by 邯郸， he stayed at an inn.
There he met a famous Taoist god吕洞宾. 卢 complained his
life was bad luck, miserable and poor. 吕洞宾 took a pillow
from his luggage and said, “Tonight, use this pillow then you can get your glory, splendour, wealth and rank.”
卢 wanted to test this pillow, so before
night he laid his head on it. At that time, the Chief of the inn was just
cooking the millet. Soon he fell asleep. He dreamt that he married a beautiful
girl from a famous and rich family. Next year, he past the royal examination
and became high rank officer. Later he had five sons and when they grew up, all
of them married notable family and great clan. Finally he had more than one
dozen of grandchildren, they were smart and good looking.
Although
he had passed some ordeal, but in most case he got what he had dreamt. Then he
died and at that time, he woke up. It was but a dream and it was the right time,
the millet that cooking by the chief was ready.
He
opened his eyes and found that he was still in the simple and crude inn. He said to god吕洞宾 “thank you for
let me experience what I wanted and I understand that is life.”
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