釋鑑稽古略續集 1.220

1.220

韓山童　欒城人。自其祖父。以白蓮會燒香惑眾。至山童倡言。天下大亂彌勒佛下生。河南江淮愚民翕然信之。福通等復詭言。山童實宋徽宗八世孫。當為中國主。殺白馬黑牛誓告天地。約同起兵事覺。縣官捕之急山童就擒。其妻楊氏。子韓林兒。逃之武安。

Han Shantong was a man of Luancheng. Beginning with his grandfather, his family had deluded the masses by burning incense in the White Lotus Society. By the time of Shantong, he proclaimed that the world was in great chaos and that Maitreya Buddha had descended to be reborn. The simple folk of Henan, the Huai, and the Yangzi regions readily believed him. Futong and others again deceitfully asserted that Shantong was in truth the eighth-generation descendant of Emperor Huizong of the Song, destined to become the ruler of China. They sacrificed a white horse and a black ox, swore an oath to Heaven and Earth, and agreed to rise in rebellion together. When the matter was discovered, the county magistrate pursued them urgently; Shantong was captured. His wife, of the Yang family, and his son, Han Lin'er, fled to Wu'an.