Zucan is a dutiful son and is very filial to his mother. There was once a crane that couldn't fly after being shot by a bird shooter, so it came to Qi Shen for help. Shenshen took it in, carefully treated its wound, and released it after Xuanhe recovered.

Later, one night, the crane flew back to Kuai Shen's house. Kuai Shen took a candle to see the crane, and saw both male and female cranes standing by the door, each with a pearl in his mouth. It turns out that cranes use pearls to repay Kuai God for saving his life.

From the East Jin Gambao's Search for the Gods, Volume 20.

Original text:

The adoptive mother is the most filial. Once there was a mysterious sparrow that was shot dead by Yi people. When I was poor, I went back to Shenshen, participated in adoption, and treated sores, and more and more. In the evening, when the finch went outside, he held a candle and saw that the finch was half male and half female, each holding a pearl to report his participation.

Extended data

Search for Ji Shen is a collection of novels, which records the magical and strange stories in ancient folklore. At first, it was scattered, and later generations sorted it out according to books such as Bei Tang Shu Chao, Literature and Art, Tai Lan and Fa Lin. It became the 20-volume Ji Shen today, with 454 stories.

The book Searching for the Gods is very rich in content, including divination theology, changes of immortals, immortals and monsters, dreams of ghosts and gods, and communication love between ghosts and gods. Among them, a considerable number of historical myths and legends handed down from the Western Han Dynasty and folk stories in the Wei and Jin Dynasties have been preserved, which are beautiful and touching and deeply loved by people.

For example, the "Pan Hu Myth" in Volume 14 is a speculation about the origin of ancient barbarian ancestors, and the "Silkworm Horse Myth" is a myth about silk production; For example, Volume 11 "Mo Xie" tells the story of revenge, and Volume 16 "The Legend of Yu Zi" tells the love of the youngest daughter of the prince of Wu. The first 1 1 volume "Donghai Filial Wife" tells the story of Zhou Qing, a filial wife, being wronged. The legend of Han Ping and his wife praised faithful love, and so did the story of the fairy marrying Yong Dong. These stories are the essence of Su Ji Shen, handed down from generation to generation.

Searching for the Gods has a far-reaching influence on later generations, such as The Story of the Tang Dynasty, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio by Pu Songling, Fairy Tales, and many later novels and operas, all of which are closely related to it. Later, Tao Qian's Epilogue of Searching for God and Binwen Zhang's Search for Mystery, both of which have a volume of 10, are imitations of Searching for God.

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