Shallow and short-sighted, a good lightweight.
As a doctor and princes and lords, in the account of pre-Qin's text involving the magpie, much as it is: such as the "Warring States Strategy" in that "King Wu of Qin biased hearing", from which, in addition to the magpie has been known to be frank and forthright in some of the character of the magpie, but also understand the magpie's straightforwardness, blood, intense some of the character traits.
The life story of Cai Huanhou is not found in history books. The state of Cai was a vassal state in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods of Chinese history, with the state ruler having the surname Ji. He was a descendant of Shudu (Ji Du), the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou.
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According to legend, the famous doctor Bian Magpie had seen him, in the beginning of the disease from light to heavy derivation of the even advised three times, Tian Wu because of the taboo against medical treatment and did not listen to the bai Bian Magpie and then when, is now terminally ill, can not be medical treatment; Bian Magpie had to turn around and retreat, and fled to the state of Qin overnight, and soon after the disease and Tian Wu died.
The story of "Bian Magpie meets Duke Cai Huan" is told in Han Fei Zi - Metaphors for the Elderly. In fact, during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a Marquis Huan of Cai, who was the seventh ruler of the state of Cai in the Spring and Autumn Period (present-day Shangcai County, Henan Province), the son of Marquis Xuan of Cai, who succeeded Marquis Xuan of Cai as the monarch of the country, and reigned from 714 BC to 695 BC.