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Legend of the origin of the first sight of Taimu Mountain

Speaking of the origin of the first sight, there is also a fairy tale.

According to legend, Empress Taimu ordered the white monkey to guard the elixir from the furnace by the alchemy well. Because he was very tired for dozens of days in a row, when the elixir came out of the oven, the white monkey dozed off in a daze. At this time, the greedy and lazy golden mouse, who wanted to become immortal, slipped into the blast furnace, picked up an elixir and ran away. Because of his guilty conscience, the golden mouse fell in a panic and touched the dry wood. The white monkey woke up with a start, grabbed an axe and shouted, "Where do you want to escape, lazy golden mouse?"

The golden mouse doesn't care about the white monkey. It jumped up and down and suddenly got into a small hole under a boulder. The white monkey couldn't catch the golden mouse, so he waved his axe with anger, and "click" sounded like a bolt from the blue, and the boulder cracked a narrow and deep gap. The golden mouse with the elixir in its mouth fled hastily, followed by the white monkey, but the golden mouse escaped without a trace. According to legend, this scene was carved by a white monkey with a magic axe.