The legend of Phoenix Hongqiao

This bridge was built in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. Phoenix people who believe in Feng Shui say that this bridge cut off a dragon's neck, causing a giant dragon's head to be dislocated. The only blame is that Zhu Yuanzhang, a boy from Anhui who was born as a monk, listened to the slanderous words of Mr. Yin and Yang who traced a dragon vein from the Kunlun Mountains through the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to Wuzhai Sicheng. The same strange peak that plunges into the Tuojiang River is the leader he is looking for. And it can be deduced from this that one day someone will come out from this place to aspire to conquer the Central Plains, and the real emperor will appear. How could Emperor Zhu allow the remote Phoenix to have his potential rival? With a stroke of Zhu's pen, the dragon's neck was cut off, the Phoenix's feng shui was devastated, and the Emperor could no longer emerge from the Phoenix. We don’t care whether these legends left by the older generation are true or false, but there is a bridge. The pool under the bridge has been called "Huilong Pool" since ancient times. Close to the south bank, there used to be a "Huitao Pavilion" built near the mountains and rivers. Wang Jiabin, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, also wrote a poem about this: The dangerous building overlooks the cold blue waves, and the snow rushes around the moss rocks; it is absolutely like a mainstay in the middle of the river, not causing the river to make wild waves. There is also a folk legend that there is a sharp sword hanging from each of the three arches of Hongqiao. The beheaded dragon still wanted to practice hard and return to the sea, but the three sharp swords ruthlessly threatened it. It was shaken and the pain was unbearable, so Tian Po Heavy rain, lightning and thunder.