法苑珠林 63.94

63.94

漢靈帝嘉平三年。右核別作中有兩樗樹。皆高四尺。其一株宿昔暴長。長一丈餘。麁大一圍。作胡人狀。頭目鬢髮備具。其五年十月。正殿作有槐樹。皆六十圍。自拔倒竪。根上枝下。其於洪漸皆為木。不曲直中平正。長安城西北六七里有空樹。中有人。面生鬢。

In the third year of the Jiaping era of Emperor Ling of the Han, in the Youhe auxiliary workshop, there were two tree-of-heaven trees, both four chi tall. Overnight, one of the trunks suddenly grew to over one zhang in length and one girth in thickness, forming the shape of a barbarian with head, eyes, sideburns, and hair completely provided. In the tenth month of the fifth year, in the workshop of the main palace, there were scholar trees, all sixty girths around, which uprooted themselves and stood inverted, with roots above and branches below. In the Hongjian hexagram, they are all wood, neither bent nor straight, but upright and balanced. Six or seven li northwest of Chang'an city, there was a hollow tree; inside it was a human face with growing sideburns.