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子不語
片段: ... 姑遣子探訪,果如所云。告以故,其父與弟同至嫗家。方氏見即相抱而哭,父返退縮,不敢向前,曰:「聲音舉止雖與吾女相像,而面貌不同,何也?」女對父泣曰:「我假李氏體以生,非我本來面目,喜得再見生身之父與同胞之弟。母親忍心不來看我,父與弟又疑而不肯相認,生不如死矣。」 悲痛間,其母遣鄰嫗來探問,女兒即呼某媽媽:「汝從何處來?我母亦來看我乎?」父方撫而慰之,叩以往事,絲毫不爽,始真信其再生也。姑遂款留其父與弟在家。至晚,令子與媳同室而處。媳辭曰:「我處女也,雖冥數已定,乞俟吾母來,擇吉日成夫婦禮,不可苟合。」親鄰群稱善。父亦喜甚,遣其子歸迎母來,始合巹焉。 三年後,舉一子。子生百日,親朋來賀,忽向姑曰:「已為汝家傳後有人,我壽算久盡,要去矣。」瞑目而逝。人相傳冥官破例辦事,猶陽官之因公挪移云。 ---------------------------------------- 第十三卷 關神下乩 明季,關神下乩壇批某士人終身云:「官至都堂,壽止六十。」後士人登第,官果至中丞。國朝定鼎後,其人乞降,官不加遷,而壽已八十矣。偶至壇所,適關帝復降。其人自以為必有陰德,故能延壽,跽而請曰:「弟子官爵驗矣,今壽乃過之,豈修壽在人,雖神明亦有所不知耶?」關帝大書曰:「某平生以忠孝待人,甲申之變,汝自不死,與我何與?」屈指計之,崇禎殉難時,正此公年六十時也。 遇太歲煞神禍福各異...
114 pages, Paperback
Published September 13, 2013
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Yuan Mei
223 books6 followersYuan Mei (1716–1797) was a well-known poet, scholar, artist, and gastronome of the Qing Dynasty.
Yuan Mei was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang province, to a cultured family who had never before attained high office. He achieved the degree of jinshi in 1739 at the young age of 23 and was immediately appointed to the Hanlin Academy. Then, from 1742 to 1748, Yuan Mei served as a magistrate in four different provinces in Jiangsu. However, in 1748, shortly after being assigned to administer part of Nanjing, he resigned his post and returned to his hometown to pursue his literary interest.
In the decades before his death, Yuan Mei produced a large body of poetry, essays and paintings. His works reflected his interest in Chan Buddhism and the supernatural, at the expense of Daoism and institutional Buddhism - both of which he rejected. Yuan is most famous for his poetry, which has been described as possessing "unusually clear and elegant language". His views on poetry as expressed in the Suiyuan shihua (隨園詩話) stressed the importance of personal feeling and technical perfection. Among his other collected works are treatises on passing the imperial examinations and food.
Yuan Mei was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang province, to a cultured family who had never before attained high office. He achieved the degree of jinshi in 1739 at the young age of 23 and was immediately appointed to the Hanlin Academy. Then, from 1742 to 1748, Yuan Mei served as a magistrate in four different provinces in Jiangsu. However, in 1748, shortly after being assigned to administer part of Nanjing, he resigned his post and returned to his hometown to pursue his literary interest.
In the decades before his death, Yuan Mei produced a large body of poetry, essays and paintings. His works reflected his interest in Chan Buddhism and the supernatural, at the expense of Daoism and institutional Buddhism - both of which he rejected. Yuan is most famous for his poetry, which has been described as possessing "unusually clear and elegant language". His views on poetry as expressed in the Suiyuan shihua (隨園詩話) stressed the importance of personal feeling and technical perfection. Among his other collected works are treatises on passing the imperial examinations and food.
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