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The Only Man Who Did Not Drown
By Su Lin/ The Epoch Times/ Chinese Culture/ theepochtimes.com
"In the seventh year of the Chunxi Era of Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty (1180), there was a man in Leping (present-day Jingde County, Jiangxi Province) by the name of Zhang Wulang. He helped a relative get a loan by giving him a golden hairpin to be used as collateral. But the relative did not return the hairpin when the loan expired.
Zhang decided to redeem the hairpin himself. As he did not have enough money with him, he returned home and sent his maid Xuexiang to the pawn shop to bring the hairpin back.
On her way home after redeeming the hairpin, Xuexiang needed to relieve herself. For fear of dropping the hairpin, she stuck it in a hole on the wall. Then she forgot all about it and walked out of the latrine. After taking about a hundred steps, she remembered the hairpin and quickly returned to get it. However, it was not where she had left it....."
Painting of Chang Sheng bridge, by Japanese artist, Mizushima Niou. Collection of Nagaoka city central library. (Illustration of Bowman By Sun MIngguo/The Epoch Times, painting of landscape from public domain)
Richard
By Su Lin/ The Epoch Times/ Chinese Culture/ theepochtimes.com
"In the seventh year of the Chunxi Era of Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty (1180), there was a man in Leping (present-day Jingde County, Jiangxi Province) by the name of Zhang Wulang. He helped a relative get a loan by giving him a golden hairpin to be used as collateral. But the relative did not return the hairpin when the loan expired.
Zhang decided to redeem the hairpin himself. As he did not have enough money with him, he returned home and sent his maid Xuexiang to the pawn shop to bring the hairpin back.
On her way home after redeeming the hairpin, Xuexiang needed to relieve herself. For fear of dropping the hairpin, she stuck it in a hole on the wall. Then she forgot all about it and walked out of the latrine. After taking about a hundred steps, she remembered the hairpin and quickly returned to get it. However, it was not where she had left it....."
Painting of Chang Sheng bridge, by Japanese artist, Mizushima Niou. Collection of Nagaoka city central library. (Illustration of Bowman By Sun MIngguo/The Epoch Times, painting of landscape from public domain)
Richard