In January of the twelfth year of Liang Datong, two Bixie stone statues were sent to Jianling. The one on the left, with two horns, arrived smoothly at the tomb. The one on the right, with a single horn, when it was close, jumped three times on the carriage! The carriage shaft was even broken by it! They had to change to another carriage. Before reaching two miles from the tomb, it jumped three times again! Each time it jumped, the people in the carriage were startled, leaping three to four feet off the ground, with the wheels sinking three inches into the soil! This is also a sign of wood overcoming metal! Liu Xiang once said: "Losing the support of the people, orders are not followed, words are not accepted; this is due to the chaos of metal energy." Stones belong to yin, representing ministers. When ministers change, it is a sign! In his later years, Liang Wudi neglected state affairs, focusing solely on chanting scriptures and discussing metaphysics with his courtiers, political affairs were in chaos, orders were not followed, words were not accepted; all of this was self-inflicted! This eventually led to the turmoil of Hou Jing.
In the first year of Zhou Jiande, there was a stone statue in Puyang County that the county officials wanted to transport to the prefecture, intending to scrape off the gold on top. However, on the way, the stone statue jumped down and fell to the ground on its own, twice! Later, they tied it to the carriage wall with a thick rope, but the rope broke, and the stone statue fell down again! At that time, the emperor had just conquered the Qi state and was attacking Huainan, with ongoing warfare, leaving the people exhausted; this was a sign of losing their support!
