Do not know what year this is what happened the month, compared with only know that King Wu, the Duke colonial but also the morning thousands of years. At that time, only a small village in Jinan, there are dozens of families, a hundred people to the mouth of the circumstances. In the village there is a pool of spring water, this spring there is sized thick, clear the water was just like a call, day price “Gulp” to take a non-stop. Villagers laundry wash rice, porridge cooking, thanks to this eye spring child. Also had been fairly peaceful day, everyone gave this spring to take the auspicious name, called the Pacific Springs.
Unfortunately, this halcyon days before long. One year in early spring in February, sunny, cozy warmth, it was excellent spring. Can to noon, the sky suddenly clouds, blustery, dark as it was like a three-shift days. Boy, I saw a thunderbolt to split into two and a half days, then the deafening noise, the claws of a dragon fell from the sky, it looks like, timid and scared to death of people met to give a full! Dragon’s that in the air triumphantly circled a few times, then plunge into the Pacific in the spring. Since then, the Taiping Taiping spring no longer myself! Read the rest of this entry »

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties(420-589),in the reign of king Wu of Liang, there was a monk called Master Yun Guang who was a very accomplished preacher. Once he explained the sutra so proformdly and subtly that the God of Flowers was moved and sent divine flowers down to earth. Soon the land was covered with flowers.
This idiom was later used metaphorically to describe talking in a vivid and eloquent way.(mostly in an exaggerated and impartical manner)

the GREat Sage caused havoc in Heaven and the Jade Emperor ordered Heavenly soldiers and generals to punish him. But no one could manage to subdue him. Then the Lord Lao Zi threw his Diamond Jade bracelet at the Monkey King， who was then preoccupied with fighting the God Erlang， and it hit him neatly on the head. Thus the Great Sage was caught. The Jade Emperor wanted to execute him but failed to inflict a single wound on him by sabers， axes， fire and thunder. Then Lord Lao Zi put him into the Eight Trigrams Furnace， which is used for refining elixir， and wanted to burn him to ashes. The furnace was made up of Eight Trigrams-qian， kan， gen， zhen， xun， li， kun and dui-so he squeezed himself into the “Palace of xun，” for xun was the wind， and where there was wind there could be no fire. All that happened was that the smoke made both his eyes red. After the fire burning forty-nine days， the Lord Lao Zi thought the Great Sage must be ashes so he opened the furnace. At the moment， the Great Sage leapt out of the furnace with his as-you-will cudgel， knocked all soldiers down and left. From then on， he had a pair of fire eyes with golden pupils.

One day， the Jade Emperor invited Monkey Sun， the GREat Sage Equalling Heaven， to Heaven， and asked him to administer the Peach Orchard. The Great Sage was overjoyed because anyone who ate the ripened peaches became eternal， living as long as Heaven and Earth. Everyday he picked the best peaches to enjoy， and after he had his fill， he shrunk himself to only two inches long and slept on the branch of a tree. One day the Queen Mother arranged a banquet of peaches by the Jade Pool. When the fairies sent by her were picking peaches in the Peach Orchard， the Great Sage awoke and was annoyed to discover he was not invited to the feast. He spoke a magic spell which immobilized fairies， then he went straight to the Jade Pool where he saw rare fruits and fine delicacies and smelt the fragrance of jade liquor. He performed a spell by bulling several hairs from his body and chewing them up， the hairs turned into sleep-inducing insects which then bit all the busy serants， causing them to fall asleep. Then the Great Sage ate rare delicacies and drank precious wines until he was completely full. He put the leftovers in a big bag for the small monkeys on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. After this， he went to the place where Lord Lao Zi kept the elixir. The Great Sage ate up all the golden pills of elixir in the precious gourd， then he rushed out of the Gate of Heaven and went straight down to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.

During the reign of Emperor Tai Zong （627-649） of the Tang Dynasty， at his request， esteemed Buddhist Monk Xuan Zang was sent to India， the birthplace of Buddhism， for scriptures. From Chang”an （present-day Xi”an）， the capital of the Tang Dynasty， the monk journeyed west. When he eventually fulfilled the mission and returned， seventeen years had passed. From that time forward， Buddhism spread across China. As this legendary trip was told and relold by later generations， many embellishments were zealously added. Wu Cheng”en， using popular versions of the story along with his own fictional details， created the intriguing classical novel Journey to the West. The Tang Priest， Monkey， Pig and Friar Sand characters from the book are popular images among Chinese people.
Note： Wu Cheng”en（1500-1582）， was a Ming Dynasty novelist