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佛祖歷代通載 19.54

佛祖歷代通載 19.54

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19.54

(三十三 壬辰) 是年蔡京進太師楚國公。京喜食鶉。預籠畜而烹之。甞夢鶉數千訴于前。其一致詞曰。食君廩中粟。充君箸下肉。一羹數百命。生死猶轉轂。看君壽千春。禍福相倚伏。京甚畏之(出魚溪詩話)。

(33. Ren-chen [1112]) In this year, Cai Jing was advanced to Grand Preceptor and Duke of Chu. Jing was fond of eating quails, raising them in cages in advance and cooking them. He once dreamed of thousands of quails pleading before him. One of them delivered a statement saying: / "Eating the grain in your granary, / Becoming the meat under your chopsticks. / A single bowl of broth takes hundreds of lives; / Life and death turn like a wheel. / Though we watch you live for a thousand springs, / Misfortune and fortune lean upon one another." / Jing was greatly frightened by this. (From the *Yuxi shihua*.)

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