釋氏稽古略 4.268

4.268

Under the Song, Grand Preceptor and Duke of the State of Chu, Cai Jing, was fond of eating quails. He had them caged and kept in advance before cooking them. Once he dreamed of several thousand quails pleading before him. One of them delivered a statement, saying: "We eat grain from your granary, and fill the place of meat beneath your chopsticks. For a single bowl of broth, several hundred lives are taken; life and death revolve like a wheel. Look upon your life of a thousand springs: misfortune and fortune lean upon one another." Jing was terrified by this. In the autumn, the ninth month, the official titles of Grand Chancellor and Lesser Chancellor were changed to Left and Right Servitors.