Eastern Zhou Dynasty Story 114 Wei Yi Gong Hao Crane
The seventeenth year of King Hui of Zhou (660 BC).
Rong Di invaded the state of Xing (邢邦, in modern Xingtai, Hebei) and moved his troops to conquer the State of Wei. Wei Yigong sent people to the State of Qi for emergency help. All the doctors asked for troops to save the country.
Huan Gong said, "Fight against Rong Di and wait until the next spring." It is enough to unite the princes and save them. ”
In the winter of that year, Wei Dafu Ning quickly arrived in the State of Qi, saying: "Di has already broken through the Wei State and killed Wei Yigong. Now he wanted to welcome Gongzi Xuan back as a prince. ”
Wei Yigong good crane fell to the country
Huan Gong was shocked: "It's all my fault that I didn't set out earlier to save the country, it's all lonely." ”
It is said that Wei Huigong had a son, Wei Yigong. Since king Hui of Zhou ascended the throne in the ninth year, he reigned for nine years, eating, drinking, and having fun, ignoring state affairs. My favorite is the crane among the birds.
According to Fuchupper's Xianghe Sutra:
Cranes, yang birds also. Because of the golden qi, according to the fire essence. Fire number seven, gold number nine. Therefore, sixteen years of small changes, sixty years of great changes, 1600 years, the shape is fixed and the color is white." Youyun: "Two years of falling hair, easy to black dots." Three years of red head, seven years of flying thin cloud man. Seven years, learning to dance. Seven years of festivals, day and night twelve sounds. Sixty years, big hairs fall, furry, snow white, muddy water can not be polluted. One hundred and sixty years, male and female meet, eyes do not turn, pregnant. For six hundred years, drinking and not eating. It eats water, so its beak is long. Xuan is in front, so the back toe is short; perched on land, so the feet are high and the tail is withered; soaring in the clouds, so the hair is abundant and the flesh is sparse. The line will follow the island, and the forest will be gathered. The patriarch of the Gaiyu clan, the immortal Qi Ji also. Rhinoplasty short mouth is less eye, high foot sparse joint is more powerful, bare eyes and red eyes are far-sighted, sharp head is short and happy, hui ling ya is light, phoenix winged finch tail is good at flying, turtle back turtle belly can produce; Xuan before hanging back is good at dancing. The toes of the hong hip fibrous can do it.
There is also the Xianghe Trick:
Cranes are not difficult to meet, and people will be clear to the cranes and then they can be cranes. Fu Ding Dan Ti Bi, hairy feathers are clean, the neck is slim and slender, the body is shrugged and straight, the feet are dirty and knotted, and the tall and quite jaw does not eat fireworks, which can be described as a crane. Looking at it like a goose and a goose, Si is the next. Raise a house, and it will be close to the water bamboo. To give the material, the fish and rice must be necessary. If you keep a cage and feed it with cooked food, it is dusty and lacking in brilliance, is it not vulgar? The ear of the common man. If you want to teach it to dance, wait for it to be fed, put it in the distance, and lure it with your palms, then you will dance. If you smell the palm of your hand for a long time, you will eat this food, as if the immortal family is inspired by the natural inspiration of qi! The immortal species is not easy to obtain, but the Huating species is poor and strong.
The crane was bright in color, white and beautiful, thin and slender, and could also sing and dance, so Wei Yigong liked the crane very much.
As the saying goes, "The upper person is not good, the lower person is not." "Wei Yigong alone loves cranes, but anyone who can offer a crane can be rewarded heavily." So the whole country searched everywhere, and tried everything to get cranes to offer to Wei Yigong. So the royal court garden, everywhere there are cranes, hundreds of them.
Emperor Gao of Qi (Xiao Daocheng, founder of southern Qi, reigned for 4 years) Wing He poem as evidenced by:
The Eight Winds Dance is far away, and The Nine Wilds are clear.
A destroyer of the clouds, for the king's garden in the bird.
What is even more interesting is that the cranes raised by Wei Yi are all of the same rank as officials: the upper one is the doctor's feng lu, and the second one eats the shi feng lu. If Yi Gong goes out to play, the cranes he raises will also be divided, and he will also take Daxuan (Qing Dafu's car).
In front of the convoy, the number is called "General Crane". Crane keepers also have a lot of money. He also harvested a lot of grain from the people and gave it to the cranes to eat. And the people, who have frozen to death and starved to death, do not care at all.