sentences:  For his Buddhist initiation ritual at the capital Ye, the emperor parodied the Buddhist ceremonial "fangsheng" 放生 "releasing caged animals (usually birds and fish)".The (1044) "Zizhi Tongjian" records that in 559, all the condemned kite test pilots died except for Eastern Wei prince Yuan Huangtou.Gao Yang made Yuan Huangtou [Yuan Huang-Thou] and other prisoners take off from the Tower of the Phoenix attached to paper owls.