The folklore of Laoyinshan Mountain

Opposite the Old Yinshan Mountain is Lao Yang. Why is Old Yinshan Mountain high and Old Yangshan Mountain low? There is such a beautiful legend circulating in Gejiu. According to legend, Laoyinshan was a jade girl who accompanied the Queen Mother, named Yinci, while Yangshan was a golden boy of the Queen Mother, named Yangshan. The stars have changed, they have mutual affection, but they are afraid of the arrogance of the queen mother, so it is difficult for them to tell each other their failures and they are also very painful. They yearn for the world and want to be a loving couple, but they know that this is a rebellious act that the queen mother will never tolerate. One day, the Queen Mother took a drunken nap at the flat peach banquet, so the Jade Girl and the Golden Boy escaped from the sky together, and both flew from the sky to a remote mountain stream and disappeared into the wilderness in the deep mountains. Before leaving, the Jade Girl took the colorful silk thread woven by the Queen Mother, and the Golden Boy stole a precious bowl from the Queen Mother when he left. On the earth, they make love with heaven and earth as the room and Shan Ye as the bed. The wildness here is stealing forbidden fruit. One day in the sky, one year on earth. When the Queen Mother woke up at noon, she disappeared from the Kim couple. Knowing that something had happened, she quickly called Lei Gong and ordered her to take Mr. and Mrs. Kim back to punish him.

Just as the golden couple were intoxicated with happiness, Lei Gong arrived with his pursuers. Knowing this, Mr. and Mrs. Jin broke the rules of heaven, went back to unforgiven, the heavenly queen, and begged Lei Gong to chop them to death on the spot, or to be a loving couple forever. Lei Gong was also moved by their loyal love, but did not dare to disobey the imperial edict of the Queen Mother, so he had to promise to execute them on the spot for resisting arrest. Before his execution, Lei Gong promised to make a wish for the jade girl and the golden boy. Jade girl vowed to scatter colored silk thread in Shan Ye and turn it into a treasure for the benefit of the world. Yang Shan, a golden boy, made a wish to put the cornucopia by the spring so that passers-by could use it to scoop water to quench their thirst. Thunder and lightning, the kind of jade girl was cut down on the mountain covered with colored silk thread. Then he dragged the golden boy who didn't want to be separated from the jade girl down the mountain, turned the cloud into fire, and melted the goodness of the golden boy at the foot of the mountain. Therefore, when people call her Laoyin Mountain, the green peaks are in the east, and when Laoyang Mountain is in the west, the red hills are in the west. Now, the sleeping figure of herself is still clearly visible. The colored silk thread sown by Yin Ci melted into the rock and became gold, silver, copper and tin. Yangshan's cornucopia was taken to the mountain by a careless woodcutter, who accidentally grabbed the cornucopia scrubbed and soiled by clay figurines and washed out "gold". In the old society, people called shiny tin ore gold. People used cornucopia to find inexhaustible gold in the depths of Yinshan Mountain, and the world became rich.

In fact, Yinshan Mountain is named because of its short sunshine time and many shady places, while Yangshan Mountain is the first place to enjoy the sunshine, and the sunshine time is long, so Gejiu has the name of Yinshan Mountain.