As we all know, Lao Tzu is an ancient thinker, philosopher, litterateur and historian, the founder and main representative of the Taoist school. Generally, such a great man must have been born strangely. The following is a brief introduction to the relevant content in detail for you.
During the spring and Autumn period, Luyi was called Ku county. There is a village called qurenli ten miles east of the city. In front of the village, there is a laixiang ditch like a river. There are many plum trees on both sides of the river. There is a family near the ditch. There is a daughter, 18 years old, who is handsome, knowledgeable and reasonable. Her parents regard her as the apple of their eyes. The daughter has a stubborn temper. She decides not to marry all her life. She stays next to the second old man all her life, studying poetry and serving her parents.
One day, the girl went to laixiang ditch to wash her clothes. She rubbed a stone for a while. She was about to hammer down when she saw two plums floating up from the water. She put down her mallet and reached for the plum. I saw that both plums were bulging on one side and flat on the other. They were like two half cut plums facing each other and two ears together. The plum is yellow in green and red in yellow. Take a bite and taste it. It’s sweet and sour. The girl ate it in a few mouthfuls before she had a good taste.
As soon as she finished eating plums, she felt upset. She just wanted to vomit, but she couldn’t. Just as she was about to get up and go home, she suddenly heard someone in her stomach say: “mother, don’t be sad. It will be better if the child sits right.” She blushed and whispered to her stomach, “who are you? How did you get into my stomach?” she said, “you just ate plums and pregnant me. I am your child.” “Since you are my child and can talk, come out quickly.” “No, I have to think hard in my mother’s belly and think about how to make stupid people smart and evil people kind.”
“When will you come out?” “I can’t go out until the day is long and the camel puller comes.” In the twinkling of an eye, ten months later, the child had not yet been born, and the girl was afraid. She secretly ran to a secluded place and whispered to her child: “son, I am pregnant for seven months, eight months, nine months and ten months. You are ten months old. Why aren’t you born yet?” “Is the sky ever so strict?” he asked “The day was not long and the camels did not come.” “I can’t come out before it’s time.”
In this way, mother and son often talk across their stomachs, but the child has refused to be born. After ninety-nine and eighty-one years, the girl turned into a white haired old girl. She felt that she had no more years to live and could not wait any longer. That day she went into her room, sat on the bed and asked her son, “son, my enemy, it has been eighty-one years. Shouldn’t you have been born?” The son asked again, “is the sky long and strict? Has the camel driver come?” “Why do you always ask these two words? What do you mean?”
“Niang, Niang, the secret of heaven must not be revealed. Anyway, the sky is not long and strict. I can’t go out unless the camels come.” A few days later, the old girl thought: anyway, the northeast corner of the sky is not long and strict. Today, I simply told my child that the day is long and strict. The camel came and coaxed the child out. When she made up her mind, she sat on the bed and said to her stomach, “come out, baby. It’s getting tough, and the camels are coming.” As soon as the words were heard, the child in his belly butted his mother’s right rib and arched it out. Eh, it turned out that he was an old man with a white beard like a child. Even his hair and eyebrows were white.
The mother’s right rib was bleeding. When the son saw that the camel driver didn’t come, he knew that his mother had cheated him. He was in a panic. He didn’t know what to do. He cried and said, “my lord mother, the camel driver didn’t come. I can’t tear off the camel skin and make it up for you. What should I do?” Then he knelt down on his knees and kowtowed to his mother three times.
Mother said, “son, don’t cry. I won’t complain about you. You were born because your mother was pregnant with plums. Plums are like two ears. My mother gave you a name, so I’ll call you Li Er. Before I die, I have nothing else to say. As the saying goes, people leave their names and their voices behind. After my mother entered Jiuquan, it’s not worth being a good man on earth. I’ve been pregnant with you for more than 80 years.” After that, he died. Li Er knelt beside his mother, so that she could suffer. Because Li Er was born like an old man, later people called him Lao Tzu. Disclaimer: the above content originates from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. Please inform us if your original copyright is infringed, and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.