[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 27.49 # 法苑珠林 27.49 法苑珠林 27.49 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [27.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.49) 甚雨淫淫。河大水深日出當心。既而王得其書以示左右。左右莫解其意。臣賀對曰。甚雨淫淫。言秋旦思也。河大水深。不得往來也。日出當心。必有死志也。俄而馮乃自殺。其妻乃陰腐其衣。王與之登臺。妻遂因投臺下。左右攬之。衣不中手而死。遺書於帶曰。王利其生。妾利其死。願以屍骨賜馮合葬。王怒弗聽。使里人之塚相望也。曰。爾夫婦相愛不已。若能使塚合則吾弗禁也。宿昔之間便有交梓木。於二塚之端旬日而大盈抱。屈體以相就。根交於下枝錯於上。又有鴛鴦雌雄各一。常栖樹上晨夜不去。交頸悲鳴音聲感人。宋人哀之。遂號其木曰相思樹。相思之名起於此也。今雒陽有韓馮城。其歌謠至今存焉（右三驗出搜神記）。 > "Heavy rain pours down continuously; / The river is wide and the waters deep; / The sun comes forth right upon the heart." / Soon afterward, the king obtained her letter and showed it to his attendants, but none of his attendants understood its meaning. The minister He replied, "'Heavy rain pours down continuously' speaks of longing morning and evening in autumn. 'The river is wide and the waters deep' means that they cannot visit each other. 'The sun comes forth right upon the heart' means that she certainly resolves to die." Soon afterward, Feng committed suicide. His wife then secretly rotted her clothes. When the king climbed a terrace with her, the wife threw herself down from the terrace. Attendants grabbed at her, but the clothes gave way in their hands, and she died. A letter left in her sash read: "The king benefits from my life, but I benefit from my death. I pray that my bones be granted to Feng for a shared burial." Enraged, the king would not permit it, and had their graves set opposite each other, saying, "You husband and wife loved each other without cease; if you can make the graves unite, then I will not forbid it." In the space of an evening, catalpa trees interlaced above the two mounds; within ten days they were so thick one could embrace them, bending their trunks toward each other, with roots intertwining below and branches crossing above. Moreover, there was a pair of mandarin ducks, one male and one female, that constantly roosted in the trees and did not leave day or night, craning their necks and crying mournfully, their calls deeply moving. The people of Song pitied them, and subsequently named the trees "Trees of Mutual Longing" (\*xiangsi shu\*); the name \*xiangsi\* originated from this. Today in Luoyang there is the Han Feng City, and the ballads about it survive to this day. (The three miracles above are from \*In Search of the Supernatural\* \[\*Soushen ji\*\].) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 27.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.48) - [Next: 27.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.50) - [Up: 27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.27.49) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.49) · Pramāṇa