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Modern Strangeness: What caused Bian He’s allusion to cause the ancients to say: “The Phoenix never falls to a land without treasures”

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Modern Strangeness: What caused Bian He’s allusion to cause the ancients to say: “The Phoenix never falls to a land without treasures” "Interesting Words about Phoenix" (1) During the Warring States Period in China, Bian He, a Chu man, happened to see a phoenix falling on a big stone in the mountains...

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"Interesting Phoenix" (1)

When King Wu succeeded to the throne, Bian He presented the stone again, and King Wu had his right foot amputated for the crime of deceiving the king. A few years later, when King Wen succeeded to the throne, Bian He cried bitterly and went to Jingshan Mountain to hold a stone. King Wen sent people to cut open the stone, and the result was a rare gem and jade in the world. In recognition of Bian He's loyalty, King Wen ordered the gem to be "He's Bi". Sima Qian said in "The Biography of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru" that "He's Bi" is a treasure that has been passed down all over the world. Thirty years ago, when Jin Qi was talking about the dragon with Haydn, the Cultural Counselor of the German Embassy in 1988, he asked about "phoenix". Jin Qi told Haydn by the way, "The story of "He". Haydn was very happy to hear that. He said that there is a Phoenix City in the United States, which may be the Phoenix. There are many gems buried in the city. Haydn was very enthusiastic. He found some historical information and legends about Suhuang City... The legends always have some mythical flavor, just like our "Xi'an Ji". It turns out that our Phoenix City has an interesting myth about the landing of the phoenix. As early as 4,000 years ago, a group of descendants of the Yan and Huang people in China were forced by natural disasters and hard labor to travel long distances away from their hometowns. Some of them entered the deserts of Western Vietnam and entered today's Arabia. Then they crossed the Red Sea and went south to Africa; they crossed the Mediterranean and went north to Europe and experienced thousands of times. In the 1980s, some tenacious Chinese athletes entered the Americas. The Chinese entered the Americas a thousand years before the famous navigator Columbus discovered the "New World" in the Americas. It is not difficult to see that the Indians are similar in temperament and appearance to the Mongols and Tibetans in today's China. A thousand years before "America" appeared on the earth, in the Indian settlement, a burst of red rain suddenly fell one morning. After the red rain, the sky was filled with glow. A ninety-nine-year-old Indian woman was the first to see a beautiful long-tailed bird landing in a desert in front of the mountain. The next day, people saw a large area of flowers and green grass growing in the desert where the big bird landed. Many Indians ran happily down the mountain towards the flowers and green grass. When people came closer, they were shocked. It turned out that the flowers were colorful gems and the green grass was crystal clear emerald! The Indians held hands and sang and danced happily around this large area of sacred gems. No one went to take the gems. The news was soon known to the Indian chief hundreds of miles away. He sent twenty strong men with a hundred slaves and ordered them to take back all the gems. Just when Han broke into the gemstone circle, a fire burst into the sky, and the fire reflected the sky red. He saw the beautiful long-tailed bird flying out, flying out of the flames, turning three times in the sky, and then flew towards the Pacific Ocean. Later, some people inferred that the beautiful long-tailed big bird flew to the land of China, and some people said that the long-tailed divine bird flew to heaven.

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