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A Story: Why Locusts Didn't Enter Zhongmou County
(Clearwisdom.net) One year, during the Donghan dynasty, while Zhang was emperor, the Quanjun area in Henan province
sufferend from heavy locust swarms. Only Zhongmou County was not affected. When Henan Province's top
Official Yuan An heard about this, he immediately sent one of his staff members to conduct an
investigation in Zhongmou county. The county head, Lu Mu, accompanied the staff member to investigate. Sure enough, they didn't
find any locusts, and the crops were growing well. When the staff member and Lu Mu were taking a
break under a tree, they saw a wild grouse land beside a child. The staff member, curious, asked the
child: "Why did you not catch it?" the child replied: "because the chicken is about
to have chicks, I pity it." The staff member went back and reported to Yuan An, saying: "Locusts won't enter Zhongmou
County because its people's compassion reaches the animals. Little children have good hearts. These
make Zhongmou County different from any other place." Originally posted on April 29th, 2003 |