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Marriages Are Arranged in Heaven

In ancient China, marriages were arranged by parents and matchmakers, whereas in modern times, one is supposed to marry for love.
The following stories were recorded in the histories of ancient China. At that time, people believed that marriage was a fate determined by heaven.
Foreseeing His Wife in a Dream
Zheng Huangu, a scholar in the Imperial College during the reign of Emperor Wenzong in the Tang Dynasty, was engaged to the daughter of Liu, the Minister of Justice.
Before the wedding, Zheng and the Taoist Kou Zhang went to Zhaoying County, where he had a strange dream. He was in a carriage that passed three small bridges before stopping at a house behind a temple, where he married a young woman. The host of the wedding was surnamed Fang.
After Zheng awoke, he told Kou Zhang about his dream and also recorded it on paper.
Zheng married his betrothed, but his wife passed away shortly afterward.. A few years later, he married a woman from a Li family in Dongluo. The wedding took place in a house behind a temple in Zhaoying County. That day Zheng Huangu indeed passed three small bridges.
Fang Zhiwen was the deputy head of Dongluo, but he was also an old friend of Zheng Huangu's late wife's family. So Fang was the host of the wedding ceremony. It was not until then that Zheng Huangu realized that the woman he saw in his dream was his future wife.




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The story reference is: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2019/12/17/181121.html
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