佛祖統紀 44.47

44.47

On the third day of the first month in the first year of Dazhongxiangfu, a heavenly deity descended into the bedchamber hall. Wearing a starry cap and crimson robes, he said to the Emperor: 'A heavenly book is about to descend; you should fast, purify yourself, and erect an altar to receive it.' After a month had passed, the Imperial City Bureau memorialized that on the Right Chengtian Gate there was a yellow silk document suspended on an owl-tail roof ornament. The Emperor walked to the gate and bowed toward it from afar. Inner attendants held it up, brought it down, and reverently installed it in the Chaoyuan Hall. When they examined the text upon it, it said: 'Zhao received the mandate, rising in the Song; it is conferred upon such-a-one, to occupy its vessels and maintain it in rectitude for seven hundred and ninety-nine generations, opening the seal and proclaiming the writing.' Its title was Dazhongxiangfu, in altogether three chapters, like the writings of the Hongfan or Laozi. On that day, the Astrological Bureau memorialized that there were purple clouds like a canopy covering down over the palace courtyard. The hundreds of officials offered congratulations. An imperial edict altered the reign title, and Feng Zheng requested that the title Dazhongxiangfu from the heavenly book be taken as the reign name. The Emperor was pleased and said, 'It is a fine name!' (National Compendium).