During the T'ai-chung period (847-860) of the T'ang Dynasty, a young scholar named Ning Chun was staying by himself in an abandoned farmhouse at the foot of South Mountain, where he was studying in preparation for the examination at the capital.
唐朝太中年間，有個名叫寧菌的秀才，獨個兒住在南山下的大寮莊裡讀書，準備進京應試。