By the side of a road in Qingshen County within Meizhou there is a small Buddha Hall, commonly known as the Buddha of the Sow Mother. When Su Dongpo (1037-1101) asked the local people about this, they said: “A century ago a sow prostrated herself there, and transformed into a spring with two carp; she was a pig-dragon. People petitioned the sow to grant them motherhood, and erected a Buddha Hall over it, hence the name.” The spring emerged upwards from rock, its depth not reaching two chi (about 66cm), but even in severe droughts it never stopped running. People could never see the carp, however. One day Dongpo told this to his wife’s brother Wang Yuan, but Yuan thought it absurd and preposterous. Unable to settle Yuan’s doubts, he went together with Yuan to pray at the spring, where the latter said: “Grant, if this is not all nonsense, another glimpse of the fish.” Before long the two carp emerged once again. Yuan was terrified, bowing over and over again and requesting forgiveness for his misdeed, and then departing.
Anon., Huhai xinwen yijian xuzhi, 後2.266 (Tale 483):
泉有豬龍
眉州青神縣道側有小佛堂，俗謂豬母佛。蘇東坡問之土人，曰：「百年前有牝豬伏於此，化為泉，有二鯉魚在泉中，蓋豬龍也。人請牝豬為母，而立佛堂其上，故以名之。」泉出石上，深不及二尺，大旱不竭，而鯉莫有見者。一日東坡以其事告妻兄王愿，愿疑之妄誕，不平其疑，與愿俱至井禱之泉上曰：「予若不妄言，魚當復見。」已而二鯉復出，愿大驚，再拜謝罪而去。
Yuan Haowen 元好問, Chang Zhenguo 常振國 (ed), Xu Yijian zhi 續夷堅志 (Continued Records of the Listener), and Anon., Jin Xin 金心 (ed.), Huhai xinwen yijian xuzhi 湖海新聞夷堅續志 (Continuation of Records of the Listener with New Items from the Lakes and Seas) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1986).
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