Moon Cliff and Rhinoceros Watching the Moon
I invited my elders to take me to visit Moon Cliff. A stream flows into the rice field. In this driveway, which is only three meters wide, I can see the surrounding mountains, and the Moon Cliff is on the steep slope of this green barrier. Get off and climb the stone ladder on foot. Bamboo groves and vegetation on both sides gently danced their waists in the warm spring breeze, smelling flowers and listening to birds all the way. All the green elves like to bow and smile to welcome our visit. Stone steps are never * * * but a hundred steps. Several uplifted rocks caught my eye, and my fourth uncle told me that they had arrived. The moon is depicted on the stone wall on the left side of the stone steps. The name of this wall is "Yueeryan" for a long time. Later, people used the word "rock" to communicate with "cliff", so the terrain evolution of the cliff was named "Yueeryan" today. I immediately approached a smooth stone wall in the middle of the rock, and sure enough, I painted a full moon. The pattern of osmanthus trees in the Moon Palace is like looking up at the stars and the moon at night, listening to the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon and imagining the cloud-like shadow on the moon visible to the naked eye. Part of the grain on the upper left of the full moon has been eroded by the wind, and a small piece has peeled off over time. The whole stone wall was covered with moss and water stains, as well as traces of years of printing and dyeing. I stroked the stone wall and thought hard. Who painted these patterns? Will there really be moonlight shining on this legendary full moon? Yes! The elders told me that their grandfather's generation circulated the story of moonlight on the Moon Cliff.
A long time ago, the villagers opposite Yueyaya always felt that their rice would gradually decrease for no reason. After investigation, there were no pests, but the reason could not be found.
Every full moon night, the moonlight here in Yueeryan is particularly bright, making the whole village look like daytime. It was another fifteenth night. When the light shone on the rice fields across the mountain in that month, the villagers were all in a daze, wondering why there was less and less rice. Suddenly, I saw the biggest stone in the rice field shining golden in the moonlight. Under the continuous irradiation of moonlight, the whole stone sparkled with golden light. Soon, to the great surprise of the villagers, a big rhinoceros with golden light emerged from the stone! It looked at the moon, shook its head proudly and stretched. The villagers held their breath and dared not make any noise. It's interesting to see what this monster is going to do in front of them. The rhinoceros actually ate all the rice around him three times, five times and twice! The whole rhinoceros looked up at the moonlight again, narrowed his eyes comfortably and circled gently in the moonlight. Its body, like a spell, shrinks gradually, glows golden and sticks to the stone. Soon, it was hidden in the stone, the golden light disappeared, and everything was quiet again. Oh, it was the villagers who stole the rice! Early the next morning, the villagers found tools to catch rhinos. When I came to the rice field, there was no sign of cattle. Everyone split this big stone and saw that the whole figure of rhinoceros was printed on this big stone. In order to prevent rhinoceros from stealing rice again, the villagers cut this big stone into small pieces and paved a bluestone road on both sides of the rice field to facilitate villagers to enter and leave the village. Since then, all the rice has been harvested and the grain has been abundant. People always think of legends under the moonlight at the full moon.
Year after year, stories are handed down from generation to generation, and adults also lead children to carefully observe the stone road under their feet and identify which is the head of a cow, which is the body of a cow and which is the tail of a cow. With the passage of time and geological changes, this bluestone road has now sunk into the stream.
At this point, we have reached the fork in the road where we stopped before entering the village. This is where the story of rhinoceros looking at the moon ends. The elder pointed to the rice field next to this section of the road and said that rhinoceros was stealing food in this rice field at that time! At this time, several villagers doing farm work by the roadside also came to talk: Yes, yes, we heard about rhinoceros looking at the moon when we were very young. Although we don't quite understand the details of the story, we have really seen the clear hoof Yin Shi before! It's exactly the same size as a cow's foot, and even the lines are exactly the same as a real cow's foot! Well, in the pile of stones under the bridge in the west horizon! Listening to their testimony is so true and conclusive that people feel that this myth and legend seems to be true!
I saw the full moon on the moon cliff again and again in my mind, and I saw the shining appearance of rhinoceros again and again. Then I watched here and listened to the evidence of Niuhoof Stone, wondering, where is this mythical rhinoceros monster? Did the full moon on the Moon Rock exert magical power and help the villagers find problems and resolve disasters? The beautiful moon cliff is full of sacredness and worship when people mention it. Next to the rocks engraved with the full moon, I also found other stone carvings, such as bows and arrows painted with semi-circular stone carvings and the words "long life and wealth". Why is this? My fourth uncle told me that these are road signs for doing good deeds that someone later paid someone to draw. I think the full moon on the rock is very aura, and the moon cliff is also beautiful, and the stories in this area are far more than rhinoceros looking at the moon, and there are many magical stories. This is a human geography resource worth exploring and a good place for leisure tourism. I hope these ancient legends and cultural relics in rural areas can be completely preserved.