The following story is from the Book of The Divine Search, which is a hybrid story. The first half is the fairy bath type, the second half is the folk wisdom character type, and the protagonist of the first part and the back part are not the same person. According to the introduction on the Internet, the Book of The Search for God in Judaoxing was found in the Dunhuang Stone Room, and it is not known who Judaoxing was, and there is no record of him in the historical texts.
Once upon a time, there was a man named Tian Kunlun, whose family was very poor and did not have a wife. There is a pool in his hometown, the water is very clear and the view is nice. When the crops were ripe, Tian Kunlun went to work in the fields and saw three beautiful women bathing in the pool. He wanted to look closely, and a hundred paces away, two of the women put on their clothes and turned into white cranes and flew to rest in the trees by the pool, one still in the pool. Tian Kunlun climbed over the valley, the two beauties on the tree flew away in fright, and the women's clothes in the pool were taken away by Tian Kunlun on the shore, unable to change.
She hid in the water and said to Tian Kunlun, "We are Heavenly Daughters, three sisters, and we are free to play in the mortal world today." I hope you can return my clothes, and I will make you a wife when I come out of the water. Tian Kunlun was afraid that the Heavenly Daughter would fly away in her heavenly clothes, so she said, "Can you wear my coat?" Tiannu did not agree at first, but then there was no way, so she had to put on Tian Kunlun's coat and go home with him. After the two married, they had a son, named Tian Zhang.
When the child was three years old, Tian Kunlun went out to run errands and did not return for many days. Tiannu said to her mother-in-law, "When I came to your house, I was still young, and I didn't know if the clothes my husband had hidden still fit, so if my mother-in-law could let me see if I would be willing to die." Before Leaving, Tian Kunlun had warned his mother that he must hide the providence well, and if he was given it by the Heavenly Daughter, he would wear it and fly away. Therefore, the mother and son consulted and chiseled a gap in the mother's bed leg, and the heavenly clothes were hidden in the bed leg. The mother-in-law said to the heavenly daughter, "My son has instructed you not to show it to you before he leaves." ”
The heavenly daughter was full of sorrow day by day, constantly begging her mother-in-law. Repeatedly: "I have married your son and given birth to another son, how can I leave?" The mother-in-law then took out her heavenly robe, but she was still worried that she would fly away, so she guarded the door. Tiannu got the clothes, tears rained down, put them on, broke through the roof and flew away. The mother-in-law cried out again and again, and her heart ached, and she could not eat for many days. The child also cries every day to find his mother.
The four years that the Goddess of Heaven were on earth were only two days in heaven. When she returned to heaven, she missed her son very much and often secretly shed tears. Her mother scolded her: "You married mortals and wept for them." The two sisters said to her, "Don't cry, tomorrow we will go down again, and you will see your son." ”
Tian's son, Tian Zhang, is six years old and cries one day in the field because he misses his mother. At that time, Mr. Dong Zhong passed by, he was a prophet, he knew that the Heavenly Daughter would come down to see his son, so he said to Tian Zhang: "Don't cry, tomorrow at noon go to the pond to see, there are three women, two look up at you, one pretend not to look." The one who pretends not to look is your mother. ”
At noon the next day, Tian Zhang came to the edge of the pool, and sure enough, there were three women cutting wild vegetables there. Sister Tiannu said to her sister, "Your son is here!" Tiannu was ashamed and could not look directly at her son, but the mother and son were deeply in love, and she shed tears. The two sisters wrapped up the child in heavenly clothes and brought them to heaven. Tenno's father liked Tian Zhang and taught him various skills.
In a flash, fifteen years have passed on earth. Tiangong said to Tian Zhang, "Take my eight books to the netherworld, you will get a lifetime of glory and wealth, if you enter the imperial court, you must speak less." ”
Tian Zhang returned to the mortal world and grew up slowly, knowledgeable and omniscient. When the emperor found out, he summoned him to the palace, and later angered the emperor because of his excessive speech, and he was exiled to the desolate land of the northwest.
One day, the ministers were hunting in the countryside and shooting a crane. While the cook was collecting the dead crane, he cut out a small man from his stomach, three inches and two minutes long, and wore a helmet. The villain is still alive and cursing. After reporting to the emperor, the courtiers did not know what was going on with this little man. A few days later, when the emperor went out hunting, he picked up a large plate of teeth, more than three inches long, and could not be broken. The emperor asked the courtiers, and no one knew whose teeth it was.
The emperor issued an edict saying: "Whoever can explain these two things will be made the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households, and the official position will be chosen by him." The hundred officials said that except for Tian Zhang, I am afraid that no one can explain clearly. The emperor sent someone to track tian zhang back and ask him if there were any giants in the world. He said, "Yes! In the past, a man named Qin Guyan fought with the Lu family, and was knocked off a front tooth, three inches and two minutes long, and did not know where it went. And asked him if there were little people in the world? He replied, "Once upon a time, there was a man named Li Zi'ao, who was three inches and two feet tall, playing in the wild with his helmet, swallowed by a crane, and now he is still playing in the belly of a crane." ”
The emperor shouted, and then asked if there were any very large or small birds in the world. Tian Zhang said: "The largest bird is Dapeng, which starts from the Queen Mother of the West, its wings cover the sky, and it flies for nineteen thousand miles before it begins to eat." The smallest wrens nest on the antennae of mosquitoes, hatching seven birds and feeling that the antennae of mosquitoes are sparsely populated, and mosquitoes do not know that they have birds living on their heads. ”
The emperor appointed Tian Zhang as a servant, and everyone knew that he was the child of the Celestial Maiden.