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During the Yuankang and Tai’an reign periods, in the region between the Yangtze and Huai rivers, worn-out straw sandals gathered of their own accord on the roads, sometimes as many as forty or fifty pairs. People would scatter them, throwing them into the woods and grass, but when they looked the next day, the sandals were all back as before. Some said, “We have seen cats carrying them in their mouths and gathering them together.” The explanation commonly given was this: “Straw sandals are the lowliest footwear people wear, and thus signify the toil and humiliation of the common people. Their worn-out condition signifies exhaustion and distress. Roads connect all regions of the land and carry the sovereign’s commands to and fro. Worn-out sandals gathering on the roads therefore foretell that the common people, exhausted and afflicted, will gather in rebellion, cutting off communication between the regions and obstructing the sovereign’s commands.”