法苑珠林 63.93

63.93

漢建昭五年。兗州刺史浩賞禁民私所立社。山陽槖鄉社有大槐樹。吏伐斷之。其夜樹復立故處。說曰。凡斷枯復起。皆廢而復興之象也。是世祖之應耳。

In the fifth year of the Jianzhao era of the Han, Hao Shang, the Inspector of Yanzhou, prohibited the people from privately establishing altars of the soil. At the altar of the soil in Tuoxiang of Shanyang, there was a great scholar tree. Officials chopped and severed it, but that night the tree stood up again in its original place. A commentary states: "In general, when that which was severed and withered rises again, it is an omen of that which was abolished rising once more." This was an omen of the Restoration by Emperor Shizu.