The Dark Legend

A red cloud rises in the east,
A purple cloud blooms in the west.
Which filial family opens the song factory?
Attracting song masters from all directions.
Open the song path, the song path opens,
Raise the song tower, build the song stage,
Thousands of mountains and rivers gather together.
Step on the mountain, and the mountain moves,
Step on the water, and the waves turn.
Arriving at the main gate of the filial family.
A high building is built in front of the filial family's door,
Built as a corner building with walking horses.
Four high doors in the four directions.
One central door in the main hall.
Open the east door for running horses.
Open the west door for playing with spears,
Open the north door to recruit song boys.
The song stage is built in the center of the tower,
Covered with blue glazed tiles on top,
Paved with jade square bricks below,
Eight full-beam jade pillars.
Placed two Sulu doors.
In the morning, when the door opens, the golden rooster crows,
In the evening, when the door closes, the phoenix sings.
The scene before the song drum hall is beautiful,
Like the jade palace of heaven,
Embroidered with sea horses on the brocade screen,
Embroidered with heaven and earth above and below the sea horses,
Embroidered with the sun and moon above heaven and earth,
Embroidered with colorful clouds beside the sun and moon.
Embroidered with flowers beside the colorful clouds,
Embroidered with quails beside the flowers.
Open the first door of the song tower,
No people are seen inside the first door.
Only see a pair of monsters guarding,
One holding an embroidered ball, one wearing copper bells,
These are the green lion and white elephant, guarding on both sides.
Calling out to the green lion and white elephant,
Please stand aside, step aside,
Let the two song drum performers enter the song field early.
The filial family has a good coffin,
Speaking of coffin wood, its roots are ancient and long.
A tree on Kunlun Mountain,
This tree is called the Tree of Longevity.
Its branches and leaves are green in all four seasons,
One branch points to the Big Dipper above,
One root penetrates the spring soil below.

Phoenixes nest on the left branch,
An old dragon's cave is on the right root.
Only Pangu had great divine power.
Holding an axe for splitting mountains,
In the first year of Xiantian, he struck one blow.
In the second year of Xiantian, he cut half,
In the third year of Xiantian, he finally felled it.
In the fourth year of Xiantian, it fell to the mortal realm,
With a word from Master Luban,
First creating death, then creating life.
Life and death roots connected,
From ancient times to the present.
Who, with white hair, never ages and achieves longevity?
Who, even a god, is not an ancient person?
Thinking of the past, Emperor Shennong tasted a hundred herbs,
Died from poisoning with no medicine to cure.
Thinking of the past, where is Laozi now if he is immortal?
Thinking of the past, Pengzu with a lifespan of eight hundred,
In the end, bones turned to shape, dissolving into a pile of earth.
If gold could buy life,
Emperors would live for ten thousand autumns.
In the past, a mantis attacked a moth,
Who knew a oriole was behind pecking,
The oriole was hit by a golden pellet,
The person shooting the pellet was dragged by a tiger,
The tiger fell into a deep pit,
The pit was covered with yellow soil,
Green grass grew on the yellow soil,
The green grass was cut by a sickle.
The sickle was forged by a blacksmith,
The blacksmith was caught by Impermanence.
Since ancient times, one retribution for another,
Advise people to do good and not do evil!
Two guests came to the song field,
The filial son bowed and hurried to welcome them.
One boy was five chi tall,
One old man looked dignified.
Open the second door of the song tower,
No people are seen inside the second door.
Only see a pair of golden chickens guarding,
Wearing golden crowns, tails opening like treasure fans.
These are not golden chickens, but phoenixes,
Please stand aside, step aside,
Let the two song drum performers enter the song field early.
Open the third door of the song tower,
No people are seen inside the third door,
Only see two generals, one red and one black.
Originally two door gods,
Calling out to the door gods, please stand aside, step aside,
Let the two song drum performers enter the song field early.
r> Open the fourth door of the song tower,
No people are seen inside the fourth door,
Only see two women standing on both sides.
One short and one tall,
Originally Chang San Niang and Ai San Niang,
Their five sons born.
Each well-read in poetry and books, capable of writing essays.
Only the fifth son was young,
Loving to beat drums and make noise at night.
Singing some mountain songs and wild tunes,
See him already entered the song field.
Open the fifth door of the song tower,
Two gods inside the fifth door.
Holding knives, axes, planes, and saws,
Originally two disciples of Luban,
Zhang Lang and Li Lang, carpenters and lacquerers,
Made a good coffin,
Planed flat, lacquered shiny,
The coffin was originally a mulberry tree.
Grown on the top of Kunlun Mountain.
Four long pieces in the four directions,
Four short pieces in the center,
Luban built a coffin,
Specifically for entombing the deceased to go to heaven.

May I ask, from where do you come, song boy?
You are born clever, with a dignified bearing.
Your songs are sung well, with a loud voice.
Answer:
Not a guest coming from afar,
But a song boy beating drums to honor ancestors.
By land and water, visiting song friends in the five lakes and four seas,
Learned some rare and unusual texts.
Open his small travel bag,
A small cage box,
Take a set of song books, full of poetic lines,
With dragon steps and tiger strides, walking into the song field.
Question:
How many thousands and hundreds of song books are there?
How many thousands and tens of thousands of songs are there?
Answer:
There are three thousand seven hundred song books,
There are over one hundred thousand songs.
Question:
In which year and month were songs born?
In which year and month did songs emerge?
Who from the previous dynasty composed the songs?
Who passed down the songs to the present?
Answer:
In the beginning years, songs were born,
In the beginning years, songs emerged.
Songs were composed by ancients of the previous dynasty,
Passed down generation by generation to the present.

Question:
In what years were the heavenly eyes opened?
Who spread the stars all over the sky?
Who saw the earth turn over?
Who was born beating war drums?
Who was born knowing how to play the qin?
Who took fire to burn themselves?
Song masters explain one by one,
Only then can they be considered the respected teachers of the song field.
Answer:
Pangu was born and opened the heavenly eyes,
Doumu spread the stars all over the sky,
Earth Mother saw the earth turn over,
Lei Gong beat war drums in the sky,
Nüwa was born knowing how to play the qin.
Lightning Lady took the fire seed.
Took the fire seed to burn herself.
Question:
Speaking of heaven's origin, speaking of heaven's origin,
How many ditches are on the bank of the Heavenly River?
How many ditches produce peaches?
How many ditches produce iron oxen?
Who releases them, who collects them?
Who placed the iron cage head?
What disaster did the iron ox cause?
Who collected the iron ox again?
Answer:
There are nine ditches on the bank of the Heavenly River,
Iron oxen emerge from the nine ditches,
Laozi releases them, Laozi collects them,
Laozi placed the iron cage head.
Eating grass from Kunlun Mountain does not grow,
Drinking water from the Yellow River does not flow.
Crashed down thirty-three thousand three hundred glazed tiles of the Heavenly Palace,
Knocked down three thousand three hundred golden pillars of the Queen Mother of the West.
The Jade Emperor was angry,
Banished to the human world as livestock.
Shepherds release them, farmers collect them,
The old yellow ox plows fields and harrows land.


Water has its source, songs have their beginning,
Every line of funeral song has its reason.
Song masters know the origin of heaven,
Please explain it clearly to me.
To explain clearly, it cannot be finished,
The mysteries of heaven and earth are profound and mysterious.
From the spring soil below to the nine heavens above,
Ask about chaos, speak of darkness.
Or ask how the sun and moon reunite?
How many years of dark chaos?
Before human seedlings emerged in the world.
Xuanhuang Old Ancestor passed on chaos,
Chaos passed to Pangu,
Nine floods and three openings of heaven.
Only then did the sun, moon, and starlight appear.
Fuxi and Nüwa passed on human smoke,
Passed down for thousands of autumns and generations.
Talking about heaven, wandering with heaven,
Talking about earth, walking the rivers and lakes.
Riding a plum blossom deer,
Going up the ninety-nine bends of the Yellow River,
Going down the Green Dragon偃月滩 of the Yangtze River.
Three mountains and five岳 let me walk,
Viewing scenery, visiting song friends,
Joyful in the song and drum field.
I ask the green mountains when they will age?
The green mountains ask me when I will be free?
I ask what waves the flowing water turns?
The flowing water asks me why my hair turns white?
Sighing that life is too busy,
Hard to compare with the green mountains staying evergreen and water flowing forever.
I bow high here,
Song masters, song brothers, song younger brothers, song friends.
A mountain song brings out the beginning,
Like rivers flowing east.
Before singing, please invite the song master.
Must invite the song master to start the song.
At this time, an old man is invited,
Waist bent, back hunched.
Long beard, high forehead,
Shouldering a load, carrying a cage in hand.
Question:
From where does the song master come?
From where does the master come?
Answer:
A singer from Yangzhou,
A drummer from Liuzhou.
Question:
What is the load on the shoulder?
What is the object in the hand?
Answer:
On the shoulder is a cuckoo,
In the hand is a thrush.
Question:
How does the cuckoo call?
How does the thrush cry?
Answer:
The cuckoo calls gu liu che, che gu liu,
The thrush makes noise in the forest, passing through spring and autumn.
One song comes out,
Like spring water coming out of a cave,
The boat bends at the wave sandbar,
A gust of tailwind turns it around.
Song Opening:
Clean the hall and start the song,
Which song master speaks first?
Incense smoke rises faintly,
Beat the dragon and phoenix drums,
Strike the bronze gongs,
First bow to the master, then visit friends.
Once the song opening is opened, do not stop the sound,
Must sing of the past and present.
Or sing of astronomy and geography,
Or sing of the sun, moon, and five planets.
Or sing of Kunlun and the five mountains,
Or sing of the person who opened heaven and earth.
Or sing of the strange and bizarre,
Or sing of darkness and chaos.
Or sing of green mountains and clear waters,
Or sing of beasts and birds.
Song friends and friends show their talents,
Singing all night until dawn.
The song field is like a wild mountain vine,
Cut the vine back and twist the root into a rope,
Tie the rope to the people in the song field.
Wise masters in ten thousand countries and nine provinces,
Capable people from the five lakes and four seas.
High bow and low salute,
Your younger brother goes to discuss the text.
The master sets the topic, I write the essay.
Which book does the topic come from?
I will ask the master about the topic.
Ten years hard to meet a golden bushel,
Five years hard to meet a lunar December Gengshen,
Meeting today is fate,
Stars surrounding the moon until dawn.
To sing, must sing the song at the beginning,
The big tree does not fall, the roots are deep.
Tracing the source requires knowledge,
Wearing straw shoes, slowly pursue.
Mentioning the four tours and eight transmissions,
Stumped many fake heroes.
No matter which tours and transmissions you mention,
Which part of the four tours and eight transmissions,
Xuanhuang, chaos, and darkness,
Speaking of heaven and earth is not difficult,
Mending pots with pig iron shows skill,
Try it on the dragon and phoenix drums.

Comment: In the Dark Legend, Xuanhuang Old Ancestor passes on chaos, nine floods and three openings of heaven, with Xuanhuang Old as the founding ancestor.