After Touring the Underworld, Taizong Returns to Life.; By Presenting a Pumpkin Liu Quan Continues His Marriage

After Touring the Underworld, Taizong Returns to Life. By Presenting a Pumpkin Liu Quan Continues His Marriage A hundred years flow by like water; A lifetime's career is no more than a bubble, The face that yesterday was the color of peach−blossom Today is edged with snow. When the white ants' line of battle collapses, all is illusion; "Repent, repent," is the cuckoo's urgent call. He who does good in secret can always prolong his life; Heaven looks after the one who asks no pity. Taizong was in a daze as his soul went straight to the Tower of Five Phoenixes, in front of which he saw the horsemen of the Imperial Guard who invited him out hunting with them. Taizong was glad to go and they went off into the distance; but after they had been going for some time he found himself walking alone in a wasteland: the horsemen had all disappeared. Just as he was discovering to his alarm that he could not find his way a man appeared not far away, shouting. "Great Tang Emperor, come here, come here." On hearing this Taizong looked up and saw him: A black silk turban, A......