Legend of Zulin, a Paving Family in Laizhuang | Anecdotes 00 1
My hometown is Feixian, a county below Linyi, Shandong.
There are many legends in Feixian County. I heard many legendary stories told by my parents when I was a child. Even now, I always feel that the version of the story told by my parents is the most true. I want to collect and record these stories and collect these beautiful legends.
Collecting stories is a great satisfaction in itself, really.
The first story is the legend of the Chen family who came to Zhuang. This story is known in many places in Feixian County and is related to Feng Shui.
Laizhuang Puchenjia Zulin is located in the southeast of Feixian County, 20 miles away from the city and in the northeast corner of Jiangjia Village. The whole forest garden covers an area of more than 20 mu, surrounded by brick walls, facing south, and the gate is painted with red paint. The gatehouse is solemn, rigorous and neat. The flagpole in the door is tall and straight, there are many stone tablets, the flowers and plants are dense and lush, and the pines and cypresses are green and quaint, standing in the garden. To the east of the garden is an endless plain, and to the west is a continuous branch of Mengshan Mountain. Before and after, there are Fengshan and Xingshan, the gates of Feicheng East, which run north and south and stand side by side. The forest garden is located at the junction of two mountains. Further west, it seems to belong to the mountain, and further east, it seems to be on the other side of the mountain. Zhulong River originates from Longwangtang, meanders from the southwest mountainous area and bends eastward in front of the forest park. There is a stone dragon in the river, lying with its head held high and its tail hidden under Fengshan. The faucet is facing my ancestral forest, and there are stone houses and sedan chairs next to it. The road from Yanzhou to Yizhou is parallel to Zhulong River and passes in front of Forest Park. In front of Zhu Long, facing the Phoenix Mountain, the east is a plain and the west is a mountain range. My ancestral forest, located in the throat of green mountains and green waters, has an exciting and beautiful legend.
Ancestor Jin Chen was a man of great learning. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, forced by social unrest and life, he set out from Hunan for business, drove an ox cart from south to north, slept all the way, and went through hardships to reach Haizhou, Jiangsu. After staying for a while, he arrived in Tengzhou, and then settled in Zuocheng Cliff, southeast of Philadelphia. There used to be an ancient city here, and the ancestor Jin Chen settled on the east side of the ancient city and the north bank of the Red River. After wandering for a while, I went out. When I passed the Feicheng East 20-mile store, the white cow driving called three times and suddenly lay down. This cow is tall and strong, with arched horns, white all over and no hair, as full of spirituality as its ancestors. I can't afford it now, and I won't go.
The ancestors saw that there were mountains in the west and plains in the east, with fertile land and convenient transportation, so they moved eastward and settled in front of the ridge. In the future, I mainly make tofu for a living. Because Laozu is loyal, friendly and fair, and this is the road from Yanzhou to Yizhou, there are many businessmen coming and going, and Laozu's tofu business is also very prosperous. At the same time, men plow and women weave, work hard and are good at housekeeping. Gradually, when they have a surplus, they will buy more fields, gradually become well-off households, and become more and more famous, so they will come to Zhuangpu Village. Since then, there has been a saying that "the white cow pulls the cart, the left city cliffs move, and the village is settled." Later, Bai Niu was old and sick. After several treatments, it didn't get better, and finally died because of ineffective treatment. The ancestors were very grateful for the kindness of the white cow, so they buried the white cow underground and prohibited his people from eating beef. When you worship your ancestors, you must offer tofu as a sacrifice.
It is human nature to be born, sick and dead, and ancestors are no exception. The ancestors were old, so they specially invited a Feng Shui gentleman to choose the cemetery. As the saying goes, there is a good life first, and then there is a land of feng shui. Mr. Feng Shui invited by my ancestors is a special person. He measured it with a compass, indexed it with his hand, and made an eye assessment. He quickly chose a piece of land at the northern foot of Fengshan and the north bank of Zhu Long River. Fengshan, also known as Phoenix Mountain, formerly known as Yan Po, has now evolved into Yan Po. This mountain is named after the mountain shape that rises and falls from time to time and looks like a lying goose. The river that originated in Wanglongtang, tianmashan, slowly flows to the foot of Fengshan, which is the hiding place of Wang. To the north is Xingshan, pronounced lucky and called happiness. Here, it is a happy place where hidden dragons lie in phoenix. And this treasure land is the land where white cows can't afford to lie down.
Most people have this problem. When they find a strange and novel thing, they often can't help but say it, and Mr. Feng Shui can't avoid it. Time is not long, many people in the street know that the Chen family has found a treasure trove of geomantic omen, and there will be strange phenomena: wolves will escape from the forest, and fish will play drums in the forest; At the funeral, there will be poles blooming and hundreds of cars gathering together; Chen Jia will have a bucket of two liters of sesame seeds in the future because he occupies a treasure trove of geomantic omen.
In a blink of an eye, the twelfth lunar month arrived, and our ancestors failed to survive New Year's Eve and died unfortunately. The whole family was very sad and held a funeral with tears in their eyes. All the neighbors came to help. When the villagers saw that Chen Jia was preparing to make a new forest, they all took horses and cattle and chickens to the woodland for profit. Xinlin is on the roadside, by the river. Usually a place for passers-by to rest. It's the end of the year again, people come and go, visit the market, buy new year's goods, visit relatives and friends, and people come and go. Seeing the funeral of the Chen family, I couldn't help but stop to watch the excitement. At the same time, I also want to see if there are wolves running in the forest and if there are fish playing drums. As a result, hundreds of people came and the whole woodland was surrounded. There are many people, and the woodland is surrounded. Where can there be wolves running in the forest? There are miracles in the world. At this time, there are a group of hunters on Fengshan in the south, surrounded by a strong wolf. Amid all the shouting and snoring, the desperate wolf ran down from Fengshan in the south, jumped over the mountain into the stream, passed through the crowd in the middle of the woodland, and fled to Xingshan in the north. This is the miracle that the wolf ran into the forest.
People marvel at the wonders of wolves running in the forest, but how can fish play drums? God's will is inviolable. When the firecrackers set off in the police forest sounded, I heard the drums. I saw a carp weighing about half a catty jumping up and down on the surface of a three-foot drum, and the drum was drumming. It is even more amazing. Where did this fish come from? At first glance, it turned out to be an osprey flying over the forest. Scared by firecrackers, the fish in my mouth fell off, just landed on the drum surface and rolled on it. People were amazed and talked about Mr. Feng Shui's brilliance, praising Chen Jiaying for choosing a good Feng Shui.
It is a fact that wolves are running in the forest, fish are playing drums, and it is a problem that poles bloom. Not to mention poles, even flowers and plants will not bloom in cold winter. People are waiting for a hundred cars to get together.
At present, the scene is not small and there are many people. Surprisingly, there are often cars coming and going on this road, but today, let alone a hundred cars, there is not even a car in front.
Just when people were surprised, they heard the creaking wooden cart. Everyone looked up and saw a motorcade coming from the east road. When they saw a funeral ahead, they stopped to watch. When people looked in, it turned out to be a pile of salt trucks. Curious people counted the number of cars, but from west to east, it was 99, and from east to west, it was also 99. People are wondering why this is, and whether Mr. Feng Shui's car number is inaccurate. At this time, people saw a couple leaving their parents' home from the west road. The wife is holding the child, and the husband is holding a pole with a spinning wheel on it. A bunch of bright red flowers for the child is tied to the pole and stands out on the shoulder. The arrival of the couple coincided with the blossoming of the pole and the gathering of hundreds of cars. People all praise Mr. Feng Shui's cleverness and admire Chen Jia's good Feng Shui.
Since the Chen family occupied a treasure trove of geomantic omen, the family has become more harmonious, the population has become more prosperous, the financial resources have become more prosperous, and their children and grandchildren have achieved great success in their studies, and they have become the home of scholar-officials on the rich side.
Chen Fengshui, the wolf runs through the forest, the fish drums, the pole blooms, and a hundred cars gather. The story of a barrel of two liters of sesame officials soon spread up and down, inside and out. When god knew this, he was very dissatisfied with Mr. Feng Shui's random discharge of outdoor machines. He felt that such a person's vision was too unique and vicious, and he was punished if he could not let it go on like this. His eyes lost their light and became blind. He is no longer Mr. Feng Shui.
Seeing that Mr. Feng Shui lost his ability to live, Chen Laozu was grateful for his achievements in our family, so he took him home and took good care of his life. Guests treat: eat, three meals a day, sit at the table; Wear, satin, winter, autumn and summer yarn; Living, halls and pavilions, warm in winter and cool in summer; Well, ride a horse far away and sit in a sedan chair near; Servants usually follow and provide good service.
One year, Mr. Feng Shui's apprentice, who had been away for many years, couldn't get along outside and came back to see him. Seeing that he was blind, he showed concern as if he were flattering. Asked if the master had a cure for his eyes, the master said, yes, but it can't be used. His apprentice asked, if you can cure your eyes, why can't you use them? The master said: If you want to cure my eyes, you will destroy the geomantic omen of the Chen family. His apprentice was originally a narrow-minded and treacherous villain. Because of intentional injury, he was driven away by his master. Now his nature has not changed. He encouraged the master to say: You have done so much for the Chen family and are worthy of them. What do you care about their feng shui? Fix your eyes first. He asked the master to tell him how to treat his eyes. Unable to resist the repeated encouragement of his disciples, Mr. Feng Shui told them: Wait until the fifth watch of the New Year's Eve, and you can go to Chen Jialin quietly. Three lotus flowers will bloom in front of their ancestral graves. You can cut them open and soak them in water to wash my eyes. However, lotus is a sacred thing. If someone else's sacred things are cut down, the Chen family will have some useless people like other families. His apprentice said: no one can be noble without useless people, so we don't care about these. During the Chinese New Year, everyone is saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and offering sacrifices to heaven. Mr. Feng Shui's apprentice quietly arrived at the edge of Chen Jialin in the fourth watch, only to see the forest garden with dense trees and deep grass, which was gloomy and terrible; As you get closer, you will hear that the Hunan strings in the garden are more and more silky, slow and light, playing fine, drums and gongs, and the rhythm is harmonious and powerful. His legs trembled with fear and his scalp was about to explode.
On the fifth watch, he crustily skin of head touched into the forest garden and found himself in front of the middle grave. As expected, he opened three lotus flowers, which were graceful and fragrant. He doesn't care about anything else. He cut them off with a sickle and turned and ran. He heard someone screaming, yelling and murdering behind him, which scared him out of my wits. Two of the three lotus flowers were lost. After he ran back, he gave the lotus to the master, and Mr. Feng Shui cured his eyes with this lotus.
After his apprentice came back, he was seriously ill and took a long time to cure. He hates Chen Guren's geomantic omen and asks Mr. Geomantic omen to tell him how to break it further. Mr. Feng Shui told him that there was a phoenix on Fengshan in the south of Chen Jialin. It drinks water in the Zhu Long River in front of Chen Jialin every night, which is part of the Chen family's geomantic omen. It bowed its head to drink water, and Chen Jia had one more official. When he raised his head, he swallowed one more official. Head down and head up, never ending. You can ask the blacksmith to hit a 10-foot-long iron peg and nail it to the neck of the phoenix on the northern slope of Fengshan in the south, so that the phoenix can't come down to drink water. The official of the Chen family is only as much as a barrel of two liters of sesame seeds, and it can't be added. His apprentice was cruel and wanted to nail the Phoenix to death, so he made an agreement with the blacksmith to beat the iron pegs to 10 feet and 20 feet with one or two pieces of silver, but the blacksmith beat the iron pegs to 10 feet and 6 feet in order to make more money.
After the nails were put away, his apprentice took advantage of the dead of night to carry the nails up the mountain. Most people feel guilty and afraid when they do things that hurt others. Besides, he had studied Chen Jialin's skill, and knew that going up the mountain was definitely not easy, so he was too scared to walk straight. On the north slope of the mountain, his legs were wobbly and unstable, so he found a place and nailed it hard. As a result, he heard a loud cry, like thunder, so scared that he couldn't even find his soul, and even rolled and crawled down the hill. Because the iron pegs are six feet long, it is impossible to nail them all, and half of them are exposed.
The noise at night shocked many people, and the Chen family was no exception. They soon learned the truth, and then organized several young men to go up the mountain to pull out nails. As a result, when they shook the nail, they all had headaches, big shakes and small pains, but they couldn't pull it out, so they had to go home. When I got home, I said that my family had a headache when I moved nails. The bodhi old zu of our family said: there is no shortage of officials in our family. As long as the family is safe and happy, don't pull them out. Let the family find a big pot, put iron pegs on it and cultivate a lot of soil on it. Now the place higher than the west of the northern slope of Fengshan is the place where the iron pegs are buried. Because the bodhi old zu is "not short of officials", Chen Jiazhi has a kind of person who is indifferent to fame and fortune.
Since then, the geomantic omen of the Chen family has been destroyed. Fortunately, because Mr. Feng Shui's apprentice has a guilty conscience, his limbs are trembling with fear. He nailed the nail wide, only breaking the cortex and not hurting the bone. In addition, the iron pegs are too long to be nailed, and the phoenix can still raise its head and will soon struggle with its wings flapping. Every time the phoenix flaps its wings, there will be an official in our family. Every time it flaps its wings, there will be an official in our family. Now, the phoenix is still flapping its wings desperately, trying to get rid of the shackles of iron pegs. I believe that in the near future, with the passage of time, Phoenix will get rid of the iron pegs, heal the wounds, eat and drink enough in the Zhu Long River, and stand proudly on the tree-lined Fengshan. The geomantic omen of the Chen family will also reappear in the past, producing more talents to serve the people and the country.
Postscript: Folk stories are one of the important categories in folk literature. Broadly speaking, folk stories are oral literary works in the form of fictional prose created and disseminated by working people. They are all folk prose works, and some places call them "lies", "old sayings" and "ancient classics".
Folk story is a kind of narrative story with a wide range of topics and full of fantasy, which tells the various relationships between people in strange language and symbol forms. Folk stories start from life itself, but are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable. They often contain natural and whimsical ingredients.