法苑珠林 28.55

28.55

孫綽子曰。海人與山客辯其方物。海人曰。衡海有魚。額若華山之頂。一吸萬頃之波。山客曰。鄧林有木。圍三萬尋。直上千里。旁蔭數國。有人曰。東極有大人。斬木為策。短不可杖。釣魚為鮮。不足充脯。玄中記曰。百歲之樹其汁赤如血。千歲之樹精為青羊。萬歲之樹精為牛。

The Sunchuozi says: A man of the sea and a guest from the mountains debated the regional products of their localities. The man of the sea said, 'In the Southern Sea there is a fish whose forehead is like the summit of Mount Hua; with one inhalation it drinks ten thousand qing of waves.' The guest from the mountains said, 'In Denglin there is a tree thirty thousand xun in girth, rising straight up for a thousand li, shading several states to its sides.' Someone said, 'At the eastern extremity there is a giant who fells trees to make riding crops, but they are too short to lean upon; he catches fish for fresh food, but they are not enough to fill a strip of dried meat.' The Xuanzhong ji says: The sap of a hundred-year-old tree is red like blood. The spirit of a thousand-year-old tree becomes a blue ram. The spirit of a ten-thousand-year-old tree becomes an ox.