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An allusion to the fire-blowing spirit: in the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Lu (Quản Lộ), sitting under a lamp one night, saw a small creature holding a handful of fire to its mouth and blowing on it, nearly burning down the house; he had a student cut it in two, it turned out to be a fox, and after that the village had no more fires.
vi Đêm mất điện, ông tôi thắp đèn dầu rồi kể tích tinh thổi lữa cho chúng tôi nghe.
en During a power cut one night, my grandfather lit an oil lamp and then told us the tale of the fire-blowing spirit.