China History in a Cookie 刘伯温燒餅歌 !!

There’s a legendary prophecy in Malaysia that the presidency is according to the alphabetical order 'RAHMAN' and that's why 'N' will be the last. And some even say that there will be big changes coming. As ‘R’ is for Rahman, ‘A’ is for Abdul Razak, ‘H’ is Hussein Onn, ‘M’ is for Mahathir, ‘A’ is initially thought to be Anwar but came Abdullah and now ‘N’ is for Najib. But there were no extra words coming out from this legend anymore. Is it true or shall it be taken lightly?

By thinking about the current situation and country luck cycle, leads me to recall a famous Imperial Astrologer 刘伯温 ‘Liu Bo Wen’ from the Ming Dynasty of China and his very famous Cookie Song 燒餅歌 'shao bing ge’. It all began from a piece of cookie. True or not this excerpt is being translated from Liu Bo Wen’s book and it is recorded in the history of China. His entire book prophecies, describe how the Ming Dynasty era of fate and happenings.

In China’s history, the last few dynasties in accordance, were 唐 ’Tang’, 宋 ’Song’, 元 ’Yuan’, 明 ’Ming’ and the lastly 清 ’Qing’. Liu Bo Wen existed at the end of Yuan Dynasty year 1311. He was from Zhe Jiang province. He died during Ming Dynasty year 1375 at the age of 65. He is intelligent even from a very young age and 半似日兮 ‘shu du bai jia’ are well-versed in multiple knowledge like art of war, i-ching, metaphysic, politic, philosophy, history and etc. He assisted 朱元璋 ’Zhu Yuan Zhang’ in war and formed the Ming Dynasty so he became one of the founding minister. Initially, the palace of Ming dynasty was located in Nanjing China. He assisted the emperor in planning and managing the dynasty. He was involved in setting state administration, constitution, law and order. The first Ming Emperor, Zhu Yuan Zhang trusted a lot in him. He was the main influence in the country’s politics. It is well known that his Metaphysic Destiny skills are very outstanding. Let's evaluate further by taking a stroll back into the Ming Dynasty.

One day, while the Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang was resting in his hall and enjoying his cookie 燒餅 ‘shaobing’. While the emperor is having the first bite, his assistant came to inform that Liu Bo Wen was requesting permission to meet his majesty. So the emperor took a bowl to cover his cookie and summoned Liu Bo Wen to enter the palace. 

When Liu Bo Wen arrived, the emperor asked him, “Since you are good in predictions, can you guess what is inside this bowl?”.

Immediately Liu Bo Wen took out his hand moving and utilizing the finger calculation method and then said,

 

“半似日兮半似月，曾被金龙咬一缺"

"Half like a sun, half like a moon, had a bite from a golden dragon”

 

Amazed and the emperor said, “Since you are so accurate, can you predict how my kingdom will be in the future?”

Liu Bo Wen then hesitantly said, “This is heaven’s fate but it is not important anymore since your majesty already have many so many descendants and followers now”

Then the emperor insisted, “Although success and failure is determined by heaven but I would still like to know a little, as it is not a very difficult task for you”. 

Liu Bo Wen ponder and said, “Unless you pardon me, only then I would dare to predict for your majesty.”

The emperor agreed so Liu Bo Wen started to predict and created his Cookie Song prophecy of the entire fate on the success and failure of Ming Dynasty ruling for the 276 years. This is an extract from the first part of his prophecy

“我朝大明一統世界,
南方終㓕北方兴。
雖然太子是嫡裔，
文星高拱防孫迺。

臣見都城雖鞏固，
防守嚴密似覺無虞，
除非燕子飛入京。”

“Ming dynasty conquers china,
Southern will end, Northern will rise.
Thou your prince is your descendant,
Prevent educated successor & grandson failure.

Your fort may very look strong,
Well-guarded and very secured.
Unless when swallow flies into capital”

In brief history, the Ming conquered china. But later Zhu Yuan Zhang did not pass the throne to any of his sons but he had given it to his favorite grandson that is mild and educated. During the grandson’s reign, his ministers had advised him to remove the powers of his relatives and his uncles (sons of Zhu Yuan Zhang). His uncle, Zhu Yuan Zhang’s fourth son 朱棣 ‘zhu di’ titled swallow king 燕王 ’yen wang’ was a very powerful prince and a warlord. As he was being pressured too much, he pretended to be crazy. Later when the king was unaware, he launched an attack and took over the crown. After taking over the kingdom he found that ‘Nanjing’ 南京 the southern capital was hard to defend so finally he moved and set his Ming dynasty kingdom in ‘Beijing’ 北京 the northern capital. www.ziweidoushubazi.blogspot.com Aug 2015