Portals to Hidden Worlds in Ancient Chinese Legends

Fei Changfang witnessed the old man jumping into a gourd. Sun Mingguo / The Epoch Times

William Blake wrote, “To see a world in a grain of sand. And a Heaven in a wild flower.” The Buddha talked about three thousand realms, and in the view of Taoism, the human body is a cosmos.

There are stories from ancient China of people entering a vast world through a small opening.

A World Inside a Gourd

There was an official named Fei Changfang in Runan who was in charge of bazaars during the Eastern Han Dynasty. An old medicine seller at the market always had a gourd hanging at the door of his shop.