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Anecdote collection · Cities & buildings

The whole city sprouting vegetables

Chang’an, China · 383 (as told)

苻堅將欲南伐，夢滿城出菜，又地東南傾。

Original text — Taiping Guangji, dream volumes 276–282, Li Fang et al. (compilers)

As Fu Jian prepared to march south, he dreamed that vegetables sprouted all over the city and that the land tilted toward the south-east.

Translation · Editorial translation (draft)

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Source
Taiping Guangji, dream volumes 276–282 — Li Fang et al. (compilers), 978
Rights
Public domain (ancient text)
Record type
Anecdote collection
Place
Chang’an, China · Chinese
Date
383 (as told)
Uncertainty
High — Anecdote preserved in the Taiping Guangji (978); the dream is reported, not first-hand.
Imagery
City · Food
Feelings
Confusion · Unease

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Houses, corridors and endless stairs are frequent dream settings. Some writers read buildings as figures for the self; others note simply that dreams rebuild the spaces we move through every day.

cf. Stevenson, A Chapter on Dreams (1888)

Mythological

Labyrinths, towers and underground cities appear in myths from Crete to Babel — built places where people lose their way, reach too high, or find hidden kingdoms.

Greek myth; Genesis 11

Chinese traditions

Tang tales like “The Governor of Nanke” place a whole kingdom of palaces inside a dream, only to reveal it as an ants’ nest — a lasting image for the brevity of worldly glory.

Li Gongzuo, c. 802

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

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