1. Translation of Jinan Taoist Classical Chinese There was a Taoist priest in Jinan. I don’t know who he was or what his name was.

No matter winter or summer, always wear a jacket, tie a yellow belt around the waist, and wear other clothes.

Use a half comb to comb your hair. After combing, pull your hair into a bun and pin it up with a comb, like wearing a hat.

The Taoist priest walks around the market barefoot every day and sleeps on the street at night. The ice and snow within a few feet of his body have completely melted.

When the Taoist priest first came to Jinan, he often performed magic tricks for people, and people on the street rushed to give him food.

There was a rogue in the market who gave him some wine and wanted to learn magic from him, but the Taoist priest refused.

Once, the rogue happened to encounter a Taoist priest bathing in the river, and suddenly took away his clothes to threaten him.

The Taoist priest bowed to him and said, "Please give me back my clothes. I will not begrudge my little magic." The rogue was afraid that he would lie to him, so he hugged the clothes and refused to put them down.

The Taoist priest said, "Are you really not going to pay me back?" The scoundrel said, "No!" The Taoist priest said nothing in silence.

After a while, I suddenly saw that the yellow ribbon turned into a big snake, several handfuls thick, and wrapped around the rogue's body six or seven times. It raised its head again, spitting out red ribbons from its mouth, and glared at the rogue.

The scoundrel was shocked and fell to his knees in a hurry. His face was blue with fright and he couldn't breathe. He kept shouting for mercy.

The Taoist priest grabbed the yellow belt and found it was not a snake.

There was another snake that snaked its way into the city.

From then on, Taoist priests became more famous.

Those officials and gentry heard about his strange abilities.

They all invited him to go and socialize with him. From then on, Taoist priests continued to go in and out of wealthy people's homes.

Even the chiefs of the State Council and the State Council have heard of his fame, and always invite him to every banquet.

One day, the Taoist priest announced that he would hold a banquet at the pavilion on the water surface of Daming Lake to invite all the officials.

On that day, every invited guest got an invitation on his or her table, but no one knew how the invitation was delivered.

The guests arrived at the place where the banquet was held as promised, and the Taoist priests bowed their waists and came out to greet them respectfully.

When I walked into the pavilion, I saw nothing. It was quiet, not even tables and chairs.

Everyone suspected that the Taoist priest was lying.

The Taoist priest said to several officials: "I have no servants. I would like to borrow your followers to help." The officials all agreed.

The Taoist priest then went to draw two doors on a wall, and then knocked on it with his hand. There was a sound of approval from the wall, followed by the sound of unlocking, and with a crash, the door opened.

Everyone looked inside together and saw a lot of people running back and forth in shadows inside. There were screens, curtains, beds, tables, and chairs all available.

Someone kept handing these things out, and the Taoist priest ordered the officials' entourage to take them and line them up in the pavilion, and also told them not to talk to the people inside.

When the two parties passed things around, they just looked at each other and smiled.

After a while, the pavilion was filled with extremely gorgeous utensils.

Then, fragrant wine and steaming delicacies were handed out from inside the door.

When the guests saw it, they were all shocked and surprised.

The water surface pavilion is originally backed by the lake.

Every time in midsummer in June, dozens of hectares of lake surface are filled with lotus flowers, stretching as far as the eye can see.

It was the middle of winter when the Taoist priest held a banquet. Looking out from the window, the green lake was vast, with only clear waves rippling.

A guest accidentally sighed and said: "Today's grand gathering is unfortunately not decorated with lotus flowers!" Everyone felt the same.

After a while, a servant in Tsing Yi ran in and said, "The lotus leaves have grown all over the pond!" Everyone in the room was surprised. They opened the window and looked outside. Sure enough, their eyes were full of green lotus leaves, with countless lotus leaves mixed in between.

Lotus bud.

In an instant, thousands of lotus flowers bloomed together, and the cold north wind blew, bringing a refreshing fragrance of lotus.

Everyone was surprised and sent a servant to row a boat to pick some lotus seeds.

From a distance, I saw the servant entering the depths of the lotus.

After a while, the servant returned and answered with his hands empty.

The official asked him why he didn't pick it, and the servant said: "The little man was driving the boat, and he always saw lotus flowers far away in front. He rowed all the way to the north bank, and saw lotus flowers blooming far away on the south side of the lake." The Taoist laughed.

He said: "These are just empty flowers in a dream." Soon, the banquet was over and the lotus withered.

A gust of north wind blew all the fallen lotus leaves into the water, never to be seen again.

One of the guests, Jidong, observed that he liked the Taoist priest's magic very much and invited him to the government office to have fun every day.

One day, the observer was drinking with his guests. He had a good family tradition of wine. Every time he treated guests, he would treat them to a bucket at most and he would not let his guests drink more.

On this day, after the guest drank the wine, he thought it tasted delicious. After drinking a bucket, he wanted to drink more.

Observation refused, saying that the wine was almost gone.

The Taoist priest smiled and said to the guest: "You must get over your alcohol addiction and make peace with me!" The guest asked him to get some wine.

The Taoist priest took the jug and stuffed it into his sleeve. After a while, he took it out and saw that the jug was full and he poured it for everyone present.

The wine in the jug tastes no different than the observer's wine.

So everyone left happily.

Observation aroused suspicion. After the guest left, he hurriedly went to look at his own wine jar. Seeing that the mouth of the jar was still tightly sealed, he picked it up and shook it. It was empty and there was no wine left.

Observation was ashamed and angry, so he arrested the Taoist priest, called him a monster, and ordered him to be beaten with a stick.

As soon as the stick hit the Taoist priest, he felt a sharp pain in his penis; if he hit it again, the flesh on his penis seemed to split.

The Taoist priest pretended to be hoarse at the foot of the steps, observing that the blood on his breasts had stained the seat red.

Observer had no choice but to order not to fight and drove the Taoist priest out.