法苑珠林 97.49

97.49

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.