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More than a hundred li south of Xingyang County stands Mount Lanyan, its sheer cliffs rising a thousand zhang. A pair of cranes, their white plumage gleaming, were often seen there, flying and alighting together morning and evening. Local tradition has it: “Long ago, a husband and wife lived in seclusion on this mountain for several hundred years, then changed into a pair of cranes, which have come and gone here ever since.” One day, without warning, one of the cranes was killed by a human hand. Year after year, the surviving crane cried out in grief. To this day its calls echo through the cliffs and valleys, and no one knows how many years have passed.