法苑珠林 57.36

57.36

梁南陽人侯慶。有銅像一區。可高尺餘。慶有牛一頭。擬貨為金色遇有急事。遂以牛與他用之。經二年。慶妻馬氏。忽夢此像謂之曰。卿夫婦負我金色久而不償。今取卿兒醜多以充金色。馬氏寤覺而心不安。至曉醜多得病而亡。慶年餘五十唯有一子。悲哀之聲感於行路。醜多亡日像忽自有金色光照四隣隣里之內咸聞香氣。道俗長幼皆來觀矚。尚書右僕射元積。聞里內頻有怪異。遂改負財里為齊諧里也（見雒陽寺記）。

Under the Liang, there was a man of Nanyang named Hou Qing, who possessed a bronze statue a little over a foot high. Qing had an ox, which he intended to sell to apply gold leaf [to the statue]. Meeting with an emergency, he used the ox to give to someone else. After two years, Qing's wife, Lady Ma, suddenly dreamt that this statue said to her: 'You and your husband have owed me gold for a long time without repaying it. Now I will take your son, Chouduo, to make up for the gold.' Lady Ma awoke feeling uneasy. By morning, Chouduo fell ill and died. Qing was over fifty years old and had only this one son; the sounds of his grief moved the passersby on the road. On the day Chouduo died, the statue suddenly of itself took on a golden hue, and its light illuminated the four neighbors; within the neighborhood all smelled a fragrance. Monastics, laity, young, and old all came to look. Yuan Ji, the Vice Director of the Right of the Department of State Affairs, hearing that strange wonders were occurring frequently in the neighborhood, changed the name of Fucai (Owed Wealth) Lane to Qi Xie (Equal Harmony) Lane. (From the Luoyang qielan ji).