"Book of Sui", Volume 69, "Biography of Wang Shao": At that time, during the KaiHenry Lao period of the Sui Dynasty, someone was bathing in the Henry Laofeng Spring and found two white stones with quite a lot of patterns... Among them, the large jade had the sun, the moon, and the stars... There were also two birds, one of which was a Quefei. The birds all had human faces, which is what "Baopuzi" called "live for thousands of years".
Volume 3 of the Inner Chapters of Baopuzi by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: Birds that are a thousand years old and birds that are ten thousand years old all have human faces and bird bodies, and their longevity is as their name suggests.
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The old man's face instantly lost color.
... He ordered solemnly: "Comrades, hurry up and get back to the ground. Don't bring any iron tools with you. Put them down gently without causing any sparks."
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