Folk story: Phoenix Mountain
New Year's Eve: Big family, big fish and big meat on the table. Niu Er's home is full of sweet potatoes and a bowl of porridge, and a small grain of rice can be seen vaguely in the porridge. Pear blossoms push rice porridge to Niuer. Niuer said, "I'm not hungry. Drink it! " Pear flower said, "I just drank it." This is reserved for you. Drink it! " Niu Er knew that pear flower was lying, so he picked up a sweet potato, peeled it and ate it. Nobody drinks rice porridge. "It snowed on my way back just now. ""oh! " Pear replied.
Goose feather and snow were flying all over the sky, and the cold wind roared in horror. "Dangdang Dangdang ..." Someone was knocking at the door and opened the door to see an old woman. She has gray hair, rags and crutches. Pear flower pushes Niu Er, who is stuck at the door, to invite the old woman into the house (Pear flower was rejected by her mother when she was a child, but her mother froze to death, but she was held in her arms to keep warm. Early the next morning, she was driven away with a stick. Niu Er's parents saw that she took her in and buried her mother. The old woman walked into the house step by step, shaking all over. The pear flower dusted off the snowflakes, and Niu Er picked up the bowl and vaguely saw a bowl of rice porridge for the old woman to drink.
The old woman spent the night in their house. The next day, the snow was still falling early in the morning, and the old woman was ready to leave. Pear grabbed her hand and said that the snowy road outside was difficult to walk. Please stay here until the snow stops. It's not like a big family, but when you leave our home, you will feel warm. The old woman didn't speak and looked at the sky. These two men stayed. Every meal is sweet potato and rice porridge invisible to rice grains, and rice porridge is given to the old woman. On the seventh day, it snowed for seven days and it cleared up. The old woman got up to say goodbye. Pear flower didn't leave her this time and sent her outside. Pear flower left tears, just like saying goodbye to mother. At this moment, the old woman took out a piece of white cloth. "This silk is embroidered for you with hardworking hands, and happiness is destined for hardworking and kind people." Pear flower refused to accept the old woman and put it in pear flower's hand. "I saw a phoenix on the silk." "Pear flower looked up and called her mother-in-law, but the old woman was gone.
Therefore, pear flowers are embroidered with this kind of silk during the day and at night. She embroidered the phoenix head with red silk thread, the phoenix eye with black silk thread, the phoenix wing with golden silk thread and the phoenix tail with colored silk thread. Embroidered, embroidered, embroidered needle stuck into her finger, blood stained on the silk and disappeared, and she embroidered a fiery red sun and clouds on it. She embroidered the phoenix from the Lantern Festival to the winter solstice, and finally embroidered it.
This elegant picture of phoenix is hidden or present, and the phoenix looks back at the fiery red sun in the sky as if it were alive. Niu Er hung it in the house, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became. At night, something strange happened. Niu Er woke up in the middle of the night and saw a golden light in the room. When he looked carefully, the phoenix came down from the silk map. He immediately woke Lihua, and the couple watched quietly. I saw the phoenix fly around the room several times and return to the silk map, and the golden light disappeared.
The next morning, Pear rose to sweep the floor and found a golden egg on the ground. The couple sold it, bought a few acres of land and a cow, and lived happily ever after.
As the saying goes: paper can't wrap fire. I don't know who spread the story of the golden egg to the magistrate's ear. The magistrate thought: the golden egg must have been laid by something. That would really be a rare treasure. I have to get it! So he called Niu Er and said, "Niu Er, how dare you lay golden eggs without permission? Where did you say the golden eggs came from? Niuer was trembling with fear, so he told the story of the man who laid eggs with a phoenix map in detail. The magistrate of a county and the master muttered for a while and said that the master flattered you and was willing to pay five taels of silver for your Phoenix map.
Niu Er replied, "The Phoenix Map was embroidered with pear flowers with great effort. I don't sell! " Hearing this, the magistrate's face sank, patted the gavel and said, "This is obviously a treasure stolen from the palace some time ago. Where did you get such a treasure map of the poor family? " Because Niu Er didn't talk, he added another charge of "stealing palace treasures", put Niu Er in prison for interrogation and beheaded. He also ordered the chief to go to Niu Er's house to get the map of Phoenix. I also caught pear flower together, and I'm going to put pear flower in prison to see this face "take her to the backyard for me"
When I got the map of Phoenix, the magistrate of a county was really proud. He looked around and smiled from ear to ear. That night, he sat in a chair, waiting for the phoenix to lay golden eggs. Time passed very slowly, so he ordered someone to bring the pear flower in and push it down on the bed. The magistrate's tongue added a circle to his mouth and jumped directly. Suddenly the dazzling golden light filled the whole room, and the magistrate of a county stopped and sat up, only to see the phoenix coming down from the painting. He thought the phoenix was going to lay eggs, so he got up to watch. Unexpectedly, the phoenix came at him fiercely and pecked him blindly, making him roll in pain and shouting, "Somebody! Help! " When the courtiers heard the news, the phoenix had rushed out of the window and flew towards the mountain with a "wow". The chief lifted the magistrate of a county from the ground and saw that his face was covered with blood and his left eye was pecked blind.
The magistrate of a county ate this loss and was still thinking about the golden egg. I picked up something and prepared to tie the pear flower tied to the bed to vent my anger. At this time, the master stopped him and said that the girl could embroider this phoenix picture, and she would definitely embroider the second one. So, the magistrate of a county grabbed the pear flower and told her that if she could embroider another phoenix, she would put you two back. Pear flower thought for a while and agreed. She took the silk back from the magistrate and embroidered it stitch by stitch. Time passed quickly, and the gorgeous phoenix was embroidered again, leaving only one pair of embroidery. She told the magistrate that only she and Niu Er could embroider these eyes together. That's what the fairies said, and so did their first one. The magistrate asked the sheriff to bring Niu Er here. Pear flower saw it, so he gave him the needle, told the magistrate to take the officials out and invited them in when the embroidery was finished. The magistrate had no choice but to go out and let the officials surround the house and wait anxiously at the door. Pear flower and Niuer hugged each other and cried inside. Pear flower picked up a needle and embroidered it, and soon her eyes were embroidered. The two men took one end of silk and were going to call the county magistrate. If they are not allowed to go, they will tear up the map. They never expected that it would be a beating, and Niu Eryi vomited blood on the map of Phoenix. Pear flower ran over and hugged Niu Er, crying.
The blood quickly disappeared on the map of Phoenix. When the phoenix came back to life, it spread its wings and flew down. It pecked at the magistrate's head, grabbed the pear flower and the cow and flew to the top of the mountain and disappeared. The other eye of the magistrate of a county is also blind.
Later, people called this mountain Phoenix Mountain.