Prerokba o propadu Jingzhouja

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Prerokba o propadu Jingzhouja

Early in the Jian’an era, children in Jingzhou sang a rhyme: “In the eighth and ninth years, decline will begin; not a soul will remain.” This meant that since the restoration of the Han, Jingzhou alone had remained unscathed; under Liu Biao’s governorship, its people had enjoyed abundance and contentment, but the time would come when its fortunes would begin to wane. “Decline will begin” referred to the death of Liu Biao’s wife and the loss, one after another, of his generals. “Not a soul will remain” referred to the thirteenth year, when Liu Biao himself would die, bringing ruin and defeat in his wake. At that time, a woman in Huarong suddenly began weeping and crying out, “There will be a great bereavement!” Her words were so wild that the county authorities deemed them ominous rumormongering and put her in prison. A little over a month later, she suddenly cried out from her cell, “Liu, Governor of Jingzhou, has died today.