Anecdotes and legends about Pingjin Town
Mandarin Duck Sword Angrily Kills Tyrannosaurus Rex
In Pingjin Town, there is a junction of two streams. The cliffs are steep, the river is wide, and the water is fast. This pass is called Yanjingkou, where people flow downstream. The terrain at the throat of the mountain is extremely steep. The people who had suffered so much saved money and food, donated the money and food they had saved, and built a magnificent Yanjingkou Arch Bridge.
In the Bailicao waters along the Longxi River at the mouth of Yanjing, there is an evil dragon named Shanshan. Shan Shan was born with a violent nature and was stubborn since he was a child. His father found the treasure land of Baili Cao Water and asked him to cultivate his character here. Shanshan has been practicing for more than a thousand years, and has mastered the skills of arranging troops and summoning wind and rain. He calls himself the Tyrannosaurus Rex. He actually recruits troops and trains day and night. When the time is right, he will flow down the Yangtze River and march to the East China Sea to capture the Dragon King alive and replace him.
One day, Taishang Laojun had nothing to do after refining alchemy, and wanted to travel to Huarong Mountain in eastern Chongqing. Passing over Baili Cao, he suddenly heard a roaring and murderous roar below. He stopped and watched. It turned out that Shan Shanzheng stepped up his naval training and calculated that there would be a catastrophe in Fang Xiaopingjin area in a few years. So, Laojun summoned the bridge god who was guarding the Yanjingkou Arch Bridge, took off the two mandarin duck swords he was wearing and handed them over to his charge, ordering them to be killed if they offended evildoers.
Decades later, an extremely heavy spring rain caused the water in the Longxi River to surge. Shanshan saw that the time was ripe and immediately led his army to fight. The waves rolled in the river, and his huge body waved left and right. The rocky hills and riverbanks were suddenly flattened. Shan Shan's evil deeds completely angered the Bridge God, and he immediately drew his sword to subdue the dragon. The Mandarin Duck Sword is the beloved object of the Supreme Lord, and has extremely high spirituality. However, the sword rose into the air, the two swords joined together, and struck the Tyrannosaurus Rex Shanshan with lightning speed. In the blink of an eye, the faucet fell into the water, staining the river with blood.
Thousand-stone betrothal gift
During the Xianfeng period, Yan Jin was the richest man in Pingjinpu, Liangping County. Miss Yan Hui’s lover was named Zhang Mingzhong, who made a living by farming and was upright and kind-hearted. The Zhang family prepared gifts and asked someone to propose marriage to the Yan family. Yan Jincai deliberately embarrassed and tested his future son-in-law: "Your consent does not count. If the boy named Zhang can send a thousand stones of rice as a gift, I will agree."
Hearing the matchmaker's request to bring back the Yan family, the Zhang family frowned anxiously. One stone weighs about one hundred and twenty kilograms, and a thousand stones weighs sixty tons. After hearing this, Zhang Zhong thought for a moment: "A thousand stones are worth a thousand stones, what's the difficulty?"
On the wedding day, Zhang Zhong rushed to Yan's house with the sedan band. Yan Jincai didn't see Qianshi rice, and felt a little unhappy. Then Zhang Zhong walked to him confidently: "Father-in-law, Qianshi rice has been delivered." After saying that, he took off a bamboo fiber pole from his back and removed the two ends of the bamboo pole. He poured the rice stored in the fiber load into the basket next to him. The bamboo fiber pole is a tool used to carry heavy objects in rural areas of eastern Chongqing. It is made of bamboo as thick as a wine glass and functions like a shoulder pole. The word "fiber pole" has the same pronunciation as "thousand stones". Yan Jin finally came to his senses, feeling a little embarrassed on the face, but full of joy on the inside.
The wedding went smoothly and the lovers finally got married. Zhang Zhong and Yan Hui were extremely loving and married for life.
Pagoda-supported Fox Fairy Mouth
Fox Mouth is located in the hinterland of Xishan Mountain in Liangping, at the western foot of Mingyue Lake in Pingjin Town. The Xishan Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, and contains the world-famous Baili Bamboo Sea. It is the watershed between Liangping and Dazhu County in Sichuan. I don’t know when the local people started to spread the rumor that Huzui was a holy place for fox immortals to retreat and practice, and they went there to pay homage devoutly.
The fox’s mouth is originally an ordinary rock, and its appearance and expression are just like nature’s creation and coincidence. However, due to constant incense all year round, it absorbed a large amount of human energy, and after thousands of years of evolution, it really became a fox fairy. The Fox Fairy has enjoyed human sacrifices for a long time, and its inexhaustible food supply has increased its appetite day by day, so that the large amount of tributes can no longer satisfy its needs. The fox fairy's tail is facing Dazhu, and its head is facing Liangping. The ripe golden rice at the foot of the mountain is brilliant and gorgeous, and the fragrance of rice is floating. After a full meal, a large piece of rice is wrapped in the belly.
At first, kind-hearted people believed that the fox fairy protected their hometown, saved all living beings, and ate some food, so they should be treated as tributes. What is unexpected is that as time goes by, the fox fairy's appetite becomes larger and larger, which has seriously affected people's normal life. The suffering of the people spread to the county government, but the fox fairy had great powers and the government had nothing to do.
A visiting monk proposed a plan, and the county magistrate heard about it and happily adopted it.
Ten years later, a stone tower stood in Qingzhu Village, three kilometers northwest of the county. The tower is a double-eaves drill-point building with an octagonal body and a height of twelve floors. Folk proverbs praise: "There is a Wenfeng Pagoda in Liangping, but it is only one foot and eight in the next day." The tenth floor of the stone pagoda is engraved with the Chinese character "Wenfeng" in bold and powerful handwriting. There is a small copper bell hung on each eaves corner of the top floor. The wind blows the bell, and the clear sound spreads far and wide. When Wenfeng Pagoda was built, it coincided with another harvest season of crisp autumn weather. The fox fairy was about to open his mouth to eat. Unexpectedly, as the wind chimes suddenly rang, his huge mouth was firmly supported by the stone tower, and he could not reach the nearby rice. Since then, the Liangping Dam has become increasingly prosperous.
Qunshan Suoyue
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, a mountain man named Zhang lived near Shuanghekou. The family lived a simple and happy life, free from competition with the world and happy and harmonious.
One year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the bright moon was in the sky, the three members of the Zhang family admired the bright moon, ate glutinous rice cakes, and drank shochu. Zhang had already fallen asleep comfortably. The next morning, Zhang Zao went to work in the fields under the morning dew and morning glow. When he was approaching Shuanghekou, he saw a pair of ducks the size of mandarin ducks playing in the pond from a distance, having fun freely.
Zhang Zao quietly approached the duck. If you don't look at it, you will be surprised when you look at it. The two ducks are emitting golden light, and the closer they are, the stronger the light becomes. Zhang Zao was fascinated when he accidentally stepped on a stone on the side of the road. The stone fell into the pond and startled the ducks. The two ducks held their heads high, spread their wings, and flew straight towards a huge rock beside the pond, burrowing into the stone. Zhang Zao took a closer look and found that the rock was intact and there was no crack in the cave.
Zhang Zao was frightened and returned home. When Wang saw him coming back early, she became suspicious and asked why. Zhang Zao told him everything about the golden duck playing in the water and diving into the rocks that he had seen before. After hearing this, Mrs. Wang was confused. Zhang Zao was an outspoken person. After a long time, he felt uncomfortable, so he told his childhood friend about the matter. Soon, the news spread in nearby villages and towns, and many people confirmed that they had seen the golden duck playing in the water, but no duck had been seen entering the rocks. But Zhang Zao was loyal by nature, and people believed in his words. The local squires also heard about this and were very excited. They knew that their "blessing" had arrived. What objects emit light? "Gold". What can drill through rock? "Fairy". This is obviously the "Golden Duck Fairy" appearing and intending to leave. In order to retain the "Golden Duck Immortal", the squires favored literati and craftsmen. They wrote "Quanshansuoyue" in four strokes of running script on the left half of the rock at Shuanghekou where the duck penetrated the rock, intending to retain the "Golden Duck Immortal". ", protect the peace of one side and benefit the people of Pingjin.
The four characters "mountains and mountains lock the mountains" are written with the force of a dragon and a snake, and have been preserved for hundreds of years. Regrettably, when Mingyue Lake was built in the 1960s, the "mountain locks" and the rocks were blown up, leaving lasting regrets.
Carps Jump over the Dragon Gate
During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, Feng Shui Master Qian Guan always traveled around and came to a stone bridge in Pingjin Town, Liangping County. The bamboo trees here are lush, the river is clear, and there is a stone bridge under the bridge. The stone ridge has a drop of more than three meters, forming a beautiful waterfall. Next to the bridge, a thousand-year-old yellow oak tree blocks the sky and the sun, so I rest here. While I was closing my eyes to relax, I suddenly heard the sound of waves. When I opened my eyes, I saw in the deep pool under the waterfall, a nearly two-meter-long red carp soared up with its tail curled, jumped over the waterfall and headed upstream. In the blink of an eye, I didn't know it. trace.
The well-informed Qian Guangyuan was surprised and intuitively told him that this place was extraordinary, so he named it "Carp Jumping over the Dragon Gate".