This person likes poetry and will always leave some poems when he encounters interesting and beautiful places. Although his work is mediocre, he never tires of it. In addition to writing poems, he was influenced by his mother since he was a child and was very devout in Buddhism.

During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a student named Zhang Yunzhi somewhere in Zhejiang. Zhang Yunzhi, who was in his twenties at the time, took the provincial examination in the provincial capital but failed and had to go home disappointed. This person likes poetry and will always leave some poems when he encounters interesting and beautiful places. Although his work is mediocre, he never tires of it.

In addition to writing poetry, he was influenced by his mother since he was a child and was very devout in Buddhism. There was a wooden Buddha statue in their family that was passed down very early. The specific time cannot be verified. It is probably hundreds of years old. It is a It was a family heirloom. Whenever his mother had free time, she would go to the room where the Buddha statue was placed almost every day to kneel down and worship, while silently reciting Buddhist scriptures in order to protect the safety of the whole family. Due to his current influence, Zhang Yunzhi became very devout to Buddha statues, and he also made demands on himself according to the requirements of Buddhist laymen. The most important one is to never kill unless absolutely necessary.

Zhang Yunzhi has a good friend who sneers at his approach and doesn't take it seriously. He is a good eater and especially likes duck tongue. He eats it every day and kills many ducks every day at home. When Zhang Yunzhi saw him, he said that he did not want to kill like this to satisfy his lust for words. He also told this friend several strange things he had encountered.

Zhang Yunzhi has a distant relative. This relative’s wife likes to eat cats for some reason. When she got a cat, she would first have someone store lime in a jar, throw the cat into it, and then fill it with boiling water. The cat was eroded by the lime gas, and all its fur fell off, so there was no need to pluck it out. The blood flowed back to its internal organs, and its flesh was as white and shiny as jade. The lady said it tasted ten times better than a chicken. People set up nets and traps to catch cats every day. The number of cats killed is too many to count. Later, one day, the lady was critically ill, and she suddenly made a meowing sound in the hospital bed. It took a few days for her to die, and her expression was extremely painful when she died.

In addition, Zhang Yunzhi also told this friend that he knew a son of a nearby official family who liked to take cats and dogs, break their feet, spin them backwards, and watch these animals jump and howl in pain for fun. Many were killed. Unexpectedly, the children he gave birth to later had their heels facing forward.

Zhang Yunzhi also said that Wang Er, the son of his slave, was good at playing with bird guns , so he never missed a hit and would often kill dozens of birds a day. The king had only one son, named Wang Yun, who was born when many clouds appeared in the sky. When he was eleven or twelve years old, he suddenly developed sores all over his body, like marks left by fire. In every sore, there is an iron marble that enters from nowhere. He went to many doctors and tried many medicines, but none could be cured. As a result, Wang lost all offspring.

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yunzhi also quoted scriptures and said: "The emperor will not kill cattle without reason, the officials will not kill sheep without reason, and the scholars will not kill dogs and pigs without reason. This is etiquette. We should follow the teachings of sages. Of course, there is no way to cut off meat. It makes sense. However, except for entertaining guests and holding sacrifices, it is absolutely inappropriate to kill an animal for a piece of meat or kill dozens or hundreds of lives for a bowl of soup. Isn’t it a bit incongruous for the endless fear and pain of so many lives, the endless misery and resentment, to satisfy my taste in a blink of an eye, and to fast according to the date?”

After hearing this, his friend was a little scared. After that, I no longer had to kill ducks and eat duck tongues every day like before.