The fragrance of flowers filled the Qinling Mountains, and green grass spread like woven cloth. Everyone sat on the ground, drinking the sweet liquor from the wells and springs as wine and eating the ripe melons and fruit that covered the mountains. They all scrambled to drink and gather fruit, hoping to claim a good omen. There was no need for many lanterns or festive decorations, for the rainbows hanging over the waterfalls and rushing ravines, and the rosy radiance bursting from the mountain clefts and caves, were the finest decorations of all.
"Golden chimes and jade resonance," "sweet springs welling from the earth," "withered trees meeting spring," "light and fire from opened caves," and "the yellow dragon bowing its neck"-these five phrases were mentioned most often at the great feast. Yet many people had never heard them before, or knew only some of them. It was only when the immortals and True Persons at the very center of the feast discussed them, their voices carrying to those nearby, that the others learned of them.
The imagery of these phrases was so vivid that, upon hearing them, the listeners naturally connected them to the signs of True Lord Cheng's attainment of immortality and understood what the immortals and True Persons were discussing. Thus, those listening farther out also began discussing the subject, repeating the five phrases with endless wonder. Soon, people farther out still heard them, and the words spread into the distance.
It was easy to imagine that within three days, perhaps the entire Divine Land would be discussing these phrases over and over.
As the immortals and True Persons at the center spoke, attentive people farther out pricked up their ears. They then learned that these five signs together had another name: "Five blessings converge."
It was said