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The origin of Shangqiu Vulcan platform
Legend has it that in primitive society, after Zhuan Xu, Di Ku was the leader of the Shang-Lu tribal alliance. Di Ku saw that the people of Shang Dynasty had no fire, so he asked his son Wei Xiao to be the "fire officer" here. Quiber did his duty and tried to put out the fire. After his death, people built a fire temple (or Kuiba Temple) on the earthen platform where he stored the fire, which was later called Vulcan Platform. Wei Xiao was originally a "fire strategy", why did he become a Prometheus-style fire thief hero? Another local legend goes like this: Kui Bo turned out to be the "Vulcan" in the sky. He violated heaven and secretly scattered fire on the earth, and the Emperor of Heaven wanted to demote him to the earth for the people. When Quiber was about to fall from the sky, he secretly hid the fire in his body and brought it to the world. Before long, the Emperor of Heaven knew about Wei Xiao's stealing fire, so the Emperor of Heaven flooded the human kindling and punished Wei Xiao. The flood on the ground is like a wild animal, scaring people to flee everywhere. In order to preserve the fire, Kuibo built a high platform and shed to shelter from the rain, and stayed alone on the high platform to guard the fire. After the flood receded, when people came back from all directions, the fire on the high platform was still burning, but Bob starved to death nearby. This mythical Queba is a Prometheus-style fire thief hero in the East.