The Snow that Falls from the Sky Turns Red;

　　He Presents It to the Patriarch

　　天降紅血　呈示祖師

　　He cut off his arm. What happened then

　　 Well, blood gushed out of the wound, dyeing the snow red. A lot of blood flowed and he mixed the blood with the snow, dyeing the originally white snow red. Dharma Master Shen Guang took something, perhaps a bamboo basket, scooped up a basketful of red snow, and said, "Patriarch, please take a look: now the snow is red."

　　砍斷了，你說怎麼樣？那個血就如湧泉般地出來，一竄，把雪都染紅了，啊！淌了很多血。他把血和到雪裏，雪雖然是白的，經過血一染，就變成紅的；于是神光法師就拿個東西──中國人掃地裝塵土的畚箕──把這雪撮了一畚箕，紅血、白雪這麼一攪和，都變成紅雪，說：“請祖師爺您看一看，現在這是紅色的雪。