Guanyin cave, a mysterious and frightening place.
It is said that some brave people in the village have visited the cave, but when they ask questions carefully, they are secretive and can't say anything.
I am also a curious person. I want to enter the cave many times, but every time I go to the cave, I think of the legends of the old people in the village, and I have a gloomy feeling. My heart is full of fear, and the cave itself is blocked so badly that it is difficult to get in and out. I go to the cave again and again and turn back again and again.
When I was a child, Guanyin Cave was an activity place in our village. Every summer, when the water rose during the Dragon Boat Festival, my hometown rose greatly. After the flood was poured into Guanyin Cave, many fish would swim back. Not far from Guanyin Cave, there was a piece of land that was flooded all the year round. People called it a flooded dam. Every year, the fish that swim back from Guanyin Cave are either gathered in flooded dams or scattered in farmland.
One summer, when the water rose during the Dragon Boat Festival, Erbo went to his field to plow. When he saw some movement in the field, he used a whip to beat cattle. He actually caught two fish, one of which weighed more than 1 kilograms, and the other one weighed four or five kilograms. My cousin also stuck the fish tail on the door as proof that his family had caught big fish.
When I was a child, every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, people in the village would run to the flooded dam. Many people make great efforts, and Qi Xin worked together to muddy the water. When the fish can't stand choking, they will stick their heads out to breathe, and then people will wait quietly on the water with dustpans and backpacks. As long as the fish looks up, they will go down with their backpacks. If they are lucky, they will catch the fish. At that time, the flooded dam became a paradise for children and left us a happy childhood.
I remember one year, when I was still studying in my hometown, at a hot noon, my parents didn't arrange me to do farm work because of the hot weather. At this time, I remembered the flooded dam, where no one had caught fish for a long time. I think, if I do it now, I should be able to reap good results.
So, I took a dustpan and a small hoe and came to the flooded dam. After some on-the-spot exploration, I decided to build a dam at the outlet of the flooded dam ditch, cut off the water above it, and decided to start working. It took about an hour to finally build the dam. After about half an hour, the water in the ditch slowly drained away. I stood on the ditch ridge and could see fish jumping around in the ditch. I rolled up my trouser legs, took a dustpan, and began to catch fish. Sometimes a dustpan went down.
I don't know how long it took, but I basically caught the fish in the ditch. In the afternoon, the sky began to be covered with dark clouds, and it was about to rain heavily. But the fish I caught was put in a pond, because I didn't have much hope, so I didn't take any tools to hold the fish.
At this moment, the village party secretary of our village came. He saw the fish I caught, and he gave me 5 yuan to sell it to him. I thought that if I didn't sell it to him, the fish would run away when the heavy rain came. After much consideration, I decided to sell it to him.
At that time, our parents occasionally gave us some pocket money, but it was pitiful, a few cents at most, and no more than one or two dollars at most. Therefore, through your own efforts, you can earn an income of 5 yuan, which is already a great harvest.
Unfortunately, due to the ecological destruction, there is less and less rain in my hometown. I don't know from which year, the flooded dam has dried up, and no fish have ever swam back from Guanyin Cave.
The mystery of Guanyin Cave comes from its legend, which is where I yearn for and fear it.
It is said that there used to be a Guanyin Temple above the Guandong Cave, where two monks lived. They were supposed to be temple administrators, but they were not monks, because they didn't strictly abide by the precepts like monks, and they were just responsible for managing the temple. According to local customs, there will be a temple fair every year. The local elderly people have the habit of being vegetarian. Every year, one month before and after attending the temple fair, they will be vegetarian and then go to the temple fair to eat vegetarian food. You have to pay to attend the temple fair. When the incense is flourishing, you need someone to manage it.
One day, there was no oil in the temple. One monk went out to buy fat pork. He drank some wine in the street and went back to the temple. Another monk boiled a large pot of oil and put it there. Because of the wine, the monk who bought the oil fell asleep. When he woke up the next day, a big pot of lard disappeared, and his other companion disappeared, leaving a lot of blood on the ground. He was very puzzled and scared. He thought, was it a thief? Or robbed by bandits.
Out of curiosity, he waited until the evening to see what was going on. In the evening, he never dared to close his eyes. About midnight, a python came out of Guanyin Cave, and he was so scared that he couldn't get out of the atmosphere. After the python couldn't find anyone everywhere, he went back to the cave.
The next day, the monk ran away with something valuable. From then on, no one dared to manage Guanyin Temple. After a long time, Guanyin Temple slowly became deserted.
After liberation, people will build an irrigation canal and pass through the rocks above Guanyin Cave. People cut a canal on the rocks, and the remaining stones rolled to the bottom of the rocks, burying Guanyin Temple. At the same time, a cave was divided into two holes, and the fish we ate as children swam back from the two holes when the water rose.
It is said that the Golden Bodhisattva is buried in the temple. When I went out to study, I once returned to my hometown. When I went to Guanyin Cave, I found someone digging a stolen hole nearby. It is said that someone went in and stole the Golden Bodhisattva. No one knows whether it was stolen or not.
There is also a legend about the dragon in Guanyin Cave. It is said that before liberation, it rained cats and dogs one day, and the whole village was flooded. Just when the flood overflowed all the rice fields, a dragon ran out of Guanyin Cave.
It is said that the people of the older generation who saw it at that time, as soon as the dragon came out, all the water rushed to the dragon to protect it. When the dragon swam to the bridge, it happened to meet the soldiers guarding the bridge. The soldiers fired at the dragon and blinded one eye. Finally, under the attack of the soldiers, the dragon had to return to the Guanyin Cave.
In my hometown, whenever the weather changes, the water flowing out of Guanyin Cave becomes turbid. The local people say that it is caused by the dragon turning over in it.
Now Guanyin Cave is divided into left cave and right cave, and the entrance is overgrown with weeds. Even when it is hot in summer, a cool breeze will blow out of the entrance. There are bold people in the village. It is said that they have been inside, and it is extremely spacious. It feels like the whole mountain is empty.
According to people's opinions, there should be an underground river, from which those fish swam back.
when I was a child, I had a dream, that is, when I grow up, I can develop the underground river, exploit its resources and develop it as a tourist attraction. I also have a dream, that is, to explore the cave, because everything I know about Guanyin Cave is either legend or hearsay.
with the growth of age, this dream gradually faded. Because the unknown is full of fear, what's more, there are local legends about dragons. Even without dragons, a python is completely possible. Because in my hometown, there are so many snakes around Guanyin Cave that we didn't dare to go there to mow the grass when we were young.
Since it is unknown, let it leave a beautiful thought in my heart. Maybe one day I can really go into the cave and see the real Guanyin Cave, and it may not be so beautiful.