法苑珠林 70.64

70.64

漢光和二年。雒陽上西門外女子生兒。兩頭異肩。四臂共胸面俱相向。自是之後朝廷霿亂。政在私門。二頭之像也。後董卓殺太后。被以不孝之名。廢天子。又周之漢元以來。禍莫大焉。

In the second year of the Guanghe era of the Han dynasty, a woman outside the Upper West Gate of Luoyang gave birth to a child with two heads on separate shoulders, four arms sharing a single chest, and faces turning toward each other. From this time onward, the imperial court fell into darkness and chaos, and government power rested in private houses—an image of two heads. Later, Dong Zhuo murdered the Empress Dowager under the pretext of unfilial conduct and deposed the Son of Heaven. Since the Zhou and the early Han, there had been no calamity greater than this.