The Thousand Characters Tower Case

On the seventh day of the seventh month in the second year of Taiqing, all the children in Jiankang were singing a new song. The song is not long, only six and a half sentences, and has a strange melody, like counting or reciting sutras: "In July and a half, the river lanterns are set off, and the river lanterns shine over Stone City. A lamp shines in the yellow room, and the grain book is swept into ashes; Two lamps illuminate the secret room, and the laws and regulations are carried backwards; Three lamps illuminate the underground house, and the northern camp is cut off from cooking; Four lamps illuminate the Kaaba, and white silk is hung on the beams; Five lanterns illuminated the golden man, who closed his eyes; Don't look back when the lamp is gone. The ghost lights the lamp and the Buddha raises his head. "