A famous dream interpreter, Cao Pi made Zhou a palace attendant and appointed him to a post in the office of the grand astrologer.
Zhou Xuan interpreted the dream as: "A staff helps the weak to stand.
[1] Later, Liu Zhen [zh] dreamed that a snake with four legs lived in a hollow in his gatehouse.
[1] Cao Pi once said to Zhou Xuan: "I dreamed that two tiles fell from the palace ceiling and transformed into a pair of ducks.
He had hardly finished speaking when the prefect of the yellow gate (黃門令) reported that there had been a murder among the palace women.
[1] Later Cao Pi asked: "Last night I dreamed that a green vapor from the ground and filled the heavens."
At the time Cao Pi had already dispatched a messenger to serve an imperial sentence on Lady Zhen.
Cao Pi also asked: "I dreamed I was rubbing the image on a coin, trying to make it disappear, but the design only grew brighter.
Not long afterward, the man was traveling and was invited to a sumptuous feast.
Later, Zhou explained that "Straw dogs are objects used in sacrificing to spirits.
After sacrificial offerings are concluded, straw dogs are run over by cart wheels.