It is said that when a stranger is born, there must be a vision.
On the day when Wu Yuanwai's youngest son was born in Qizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, herons gathered and danced, which was a good omen that "herons enter the house, and the first rank is on the top".
Someone also accidentally dug up a stone tablet, which was engraved with a sentence from the metaphysics masterpiece "The Number of Plum Blossoms" - an object always has a body, and a body has a universe.
Wu Yuanwai was overjoyed and thought that this child would definitely shine in the family.
But a few years later, there was a flood in Qizhou, and Wu Yuanwai's family was wiped out. Before Wu Yuanwai died, he kept chanting: purple gold, silver green...
