法苑珠林 97.49

97.49

漢平帝元始元年二月。朔方廣牧女子趙病春死。棺殮六日。出在棺外。自言。見死夫。乃曰。年二十七。汝不當死。太守譚以聞說曰。至陰為陽。下人為上。其後王莽篡位。

In the Han dynasty, in the second month of the first year of the Yuanshi reign period of Emperor Ping, a woman of Guangmu in Shuofang named Zhao Bingchun died. Six days after being placed in her coffin and enshrouded, she appeared outside the coffin. She said of herself that she had seen her dead husband, who then said: 'You are only twenty-seven; you ought not to die.' The commandery governor Tan reported this to the court, commenting: 'Extreme yin becomes yang; those below become those above.' Thereafter, Wang Mang usurped the throne.