The Mystery of Wudang Scenery Golden Toad

In the central passage of the courtyard of the Zixiao Palace in Wudang Mountain, there is a stone slab. When people stand on it and stamp it with their feet, they will make a sound like a toad. Lifelike. When tourists come here, everyone who knows it should enjoy it to their fullest. It will naturally be full of fun and double the fun of the trip. Because this toy has a touching story about the "golden toad", it is even more interesting.

1. The Legend of the Golden Toad

Legend has it that once upon a time, there was a poor young man named Zhang San in Wudang Mountain who had a good heart. One day, he went up the mountain to collect firewood and rescued a golden toad from the mouth of a python. He took it home and healed the injury. Who knows, this is a precious toad.

When it lies in the suitcase, Zhang San will have new clothes to wear; when it lies in the grain tank, Zhang San will have endless rice and noodles. Zhang San donated clothes and food to the villagers. This matter spread to ten people and hundreds of people, and the money-grubbing county magistrate knew about it. The county magistrate sent someone to snatch the golden toad and locked it in his empty silver cabinet, hoping to make a fortune. Unexpectedly, a few days later, the county magistrate went to open the cabinet. Not only was the cabinet still empty, but the golden toad also took the opportunity to escape and returned to Zhang San's place.

The county magistrate got angry and sent someone to snatch the golden toad from Zhang San. In order to prevent the golden toad from running away again, he tied the golden toad's two front legs with a hemp rope, but the golden toad broke its front legs and still escaped. The county magistrate was so evil that he once again led people to snatch the golden toad from Zhang San's arms and burned Zhang San's house.

The golden toad got angry, and when the magistrate bent down to catch it, it splashed urine on the magistrate's neck. While the magistrate was wiping his neck, it jumped away again. The county magistrate was chasing after him. The golden toad jumped to the courtyard of Zixiao Palace, saw a crack in the stone, and got in. The magistrate couldn't catch him, so he stood on the stone slab and stamped his feet. He stamped his foot, and the golden toad called "You ha" under the stone slab.

"Ha" is a Junzhou dialect, which means very bad. The county magistrate heard the fuss and sent people to pry off the stone slabs to catch the golden toad and throw it to death. Unexpectedly, when I pried open the stone slab, there was nothing inside. When the stone slab was closed, he stamped his feet again, and the golden toad continued to scream again. I stomped and screamed like this over and over again, but I couldn't catch the golden toad. The county magistrate had no choice but to return to the county office in despair.

After the county magistrate returned, he had "beheading treatment" on his neck and died of it. With the help of the villagers, Zhang San built a new house, married a daughter-in-law, and lived a happy life. happiness.

But the golden toad burrowed under the stone slab and never came out again. Anyone who stomps their feet on the stone slab accidentally will think that they are the bad, greedy county magistrate again! So they will continue to shout: "You ha! You ha!"

The touching story expresses the working people Simple emotions of love and hate, but it is a fictional story after all. The phenomenon of "golden toad" truly embodies the creative wisdom of ancient working people.

2. The cause of the sound of toad

< p> The "golden toad" phenomenon was cleverly designed by ancient construction craftsmen based on natural principles, using a special acoustic effect. It turns out that the Zixiao Palace is located in a basin and is surrounded by mountains. The echo effect. The courtyard of Zixiao Palace is surrounded by tall buildings, which of course creates an echo field.

It is said that this is because of Zixiao Palace. It is located in a depression. In order to consider drainage during construction, drainage channels were not only built around the palace wall, but also underground in the center line of the building complex. Because the drainage channels are hollow and have an echo effect, this makes The construction craftsmen used the double echo field to design a "golden toad" effect for people to enjoy.

After precise sound testing, they found that a certain stone slab above the drainage channel of the courtyard was in the best position. When the echo point is reached, it is carefully designed here to finally form this lifelike "golden toad" cry.

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