《史记·十二本纪·周本纪》
满了十月就生下一个儿子，姜原认为这孩子不吉祥，就把他扔到了一个狭窄的小巷里，但不论是马还是牛从他身边经过都绕着躲开而不踩他，于是又把他扔在树林里，正赶上树林里人多，所以又挪了个地方;把他扔在渠沟的冰上，有飞鸟飞来用翅膀盖在他身上，垫在他身下。
居期而生子，以为不祥，弃之隘巷，马牛过者皆辟不践；徙置之林中，適会山林多人，迁之；而弃渠中冰上，飞鸟以其翼覆荐之。
After ten months she gave birth to a son, but, considering him unlucky, she left him in a narrow lane. But when horses and oxen passed and repassed they avoided him lest they should tread on him. She then removed him to a forest, where, as there happened to be a great number of people, she again shifted him to another place and left him on the ice of a stream, where some birds came and screened him with their wings.