madeleine Oct 13, 2020

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忻州劉軍判．貞祐初．聞朔方人馬動．傢誦摩利支天呪．及州陷．二十五口俱免兵禍．獨一奴不信．迫圍城．始誦之．被虜四五日．亦逃歸．南渡後．居永甯．即施此呪．文士薛曼卿記其事．

There is a military assistant whose surname was Liu of Qizhou Prefecture. In the early time of Zhenyou era (1213-1217 C.E), he heard that there was a military troop coming from Shuofang. His whole family then chanted the Marici spell. When his prefecture was occupied by the enemy, twenty-five members of his family avoided from this disaster. Only one servant did not believe the spell and was about to be besieged in the city; then he started to chant the spell. Four or five days after being captured, he escaped. When the court moved to the south, the servant lived in Yongning and he chanted this Marici spell. Literati XueManqin recorded this story.

madeleine Oct 13, 2020

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在昔龍漢有一國王, 其名周禦, 聖德無邊, 時人票受八萬四韆大劫. 王有玉妃, 明哲慈慧, 號曰紫光夫人, 誓塵劫中已發至願, 願生聖子, 輔佐乾坤...遊戲後苑. 至金蓮花溫玉池邊, 脫服澡盅, 忽有所感, 蓮花九苞應時開發, 化生九子。

There was once a king in Longhan named Zhouyu. He had unlimited sagely morality. People at that time had to suffer from eighty-four thousand kalpas. He had a jade concubine, who was wise and benevolent. She was called the Lady of the Purple Radiance, and made a promise to give birth to sagely sons to support the Heaven and Earth...She played in the courtyard, facing the jade pond of golden lotus and took off her clothes to take a bath. Suddenly she had a feeling, and the nine buds of lotus bloomed and became the nine sons.

madeleine Oct 13, 2020

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婦行第四：女有四行，一曰婦德，二曰婦言，三曰婦容，四曰婦功。
夫雲婦德，不必纔明絕異也；婦言，不必辯口利辭也；
婦容，不必顏色美麗也；婦功，不必工巧過人也.

There are four main types of women’s comportment: the first is wifely virtue; the second,
wifely speech; the third, wifely appearance; the fourthly, wifely work.
Wifely virtue doesn’t mean you have to be exceptionally talented and bright; wifely speech doesn’t mean you haveto be quick-minded and eloquent;
wifely appearance doesn’t mean you have to look beautiful and stunning; wifely work doesn’t mean you have to be more skillful than anyone else.

madeleine Oct 13, 2020

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日落應門閉, 愁思百端生。
況復昭陽近, 風傳歌吹聲。
寵移終不恨, 讒枉太無情。
隻言爭分理, 非妬舞腰輕。

The sun has set, the gate is surely closed, And sorrowful thoughts rise in a hundred ways.
The more so as the emperor’s palace is so near: The breeze carries the sounds of song and music!
I do not hate him for his change of heart, But that false slander was simply too cruel:
I could only appeal to principle in my defense — I am not jealous of her waist, however slim.

madeleine Oct 13, 2020

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應門寂已閉, 非復後庭時。
況在青春日, 萋萋綠草滋。
妾身似鞦扇, 君恩絕履綦。
詎憶遊輕輦, 從今賤妾辭。