There is a big stone turtle in the big temple of Nanyue, where did this come from? This is related to the osmanthus fairy on Nanyue Mountain. It is said that a long time ago, at the foot of Nanyue Mountain, there is a school, there is a poor scholar in the school, named Zhao Songquan. He studied hard every day, and after a few years of study, he not only filled his stomach with essays, but also developed a good hand at painting.
One day, after reading for a while, he opened the window to get some air, and was stunned. Why? A good view! It turns out that not far from the window, there is a large osmanthus tree. It was August, the osmanthus tree, full of small golden yellow flowers; the wind blew, and sent a burst of fragrance. He couldn't help but sigh, "Good flowers! Good flowers!" In the past few years, Song Quan seems to be the first time to find such a laurel tree outside the window, he immediately lifted his pen to describe the fragrant laurel tree.
From this day onwards, he circled around the osmanthus tree every morning; and at night, he always moved a chair and leaned against the osmanthus tree, saying with emotion: "Osmanthus, osmanthus! You never dress up in flamboyance, and do not compete with the group of flowers, but in this dreary autumn, but exudes a refreshing fragrance. You are simple and elegant, pure and resolute."
This osmanthus tree has a history. I do not know how many years ago, the Eight Immortals in the Hexian nun came to Nanyue Mountain to collect medicine, when it was in the fall, walked all over the eight hundred miles of mountains and rivers, in addition to the stars of the wild chrysanthemums, what flowers are no longer. He took off the head of the golden hairpin, buried in the foothills of Nanyue Mountain, and then grew this osmanthus tree.
This osmanthus was originally is the immortal planted, and after a long time, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, has become osmanthus fairy. Every year in August, is the most tourists in Nanyue, she stood upright in the foothills of Nanyue Mountain, the fragrance of their own clear pole scattered to millions of people, but no one has not praised her that innocent, noble quality. Now Zhao Songquan not only praises her to the fullest, but also accompanies her in the morning and evening. The osmanthus fairy y felt that only Zhao Songquan was her only soulmate.
One night, Zhao Songquan moved his chair to sit under the osmanthus tree and chanted, leaning against the tree trunk. Song Quan was so frightened that he fainted and fell to the ground. Osmanthus Fairy was even more shocked, sweating profusely, and hurriedly jumped down to help Songquan into the study and settled on the bed. Then, to the window to fly a vertical, flew to the Zhu Rong Peak of the moon stage under the ginseng essence, boiled into soup, poured into the mouth of the Songquan. Only after Songquan returned to his last breath did she leave the study. Not long after, Songquan woke up, opened his eyes to see, the quilt on his body, the candle on the desk is still lit, what just happened is still vaguely remembered. But when he looked up, the moonlight outside the window had moved to the bed, and everything in the house was the same as usual, so he suspected that he had dreamed a dream. After this happened, Osmanthus Fairy was not as restrained as before, and often hid her body in Song Quan's study, accompanying him to recite poems and paintings . Sometimes she even secretly sent a plate of osmanthus cakes or brewed a cup of osmanthus tea. Song Quan first felt frightened, but after a long time, he felt happy. He thought about the osmanthus fairy day and night, so that the meal is not lazy to eat, sleep is not good, the body gradually lost weight.
This night, into the Songquan again came to the courtyard, looking at the cinnamon fairy affectionately said: "cinnamon cinnamon, if you really are immortal, why a shape and shadow are not, a lover to wear only a handful of bones, can not also bear it?" The words just fell tone, only to see the osmanthus tree came to a head in the golden flower fairy, lowered his head, red-faced, said: "Mr. ah, you know me the kindness and deep love, I have long wanted to dedicate my body to figure to repay, such as don't see abandonment, I would like to" Pine Spring heard, and hastily to the osmanthus fairy arched his hand in a bow and said: "I'm a I'm a mortal, it's really a blessing to be able to match with the fairy! Since the fairy doesn't mind, please let the bright moon be the matchmaker and Mount Yue be the witness that tonight is our auspicious night." After saying that, he bowed y again. And so Zhao Songquan and Fairy Laurel were married that night.
The Fairy of the Flower of Gui was also an excellent painter. She often corrected Songquan's drawings for him, and also picked up petals of a hundred flowers and hairs of a hundred birds from Nanyue Mountain, refining them into a kind of painting nutrient that was not found on earth. With the help of Osmanthus Fairy, Songquan's paintings reached the realm of the most exquisite and skillful workmanship. Gradually, it became a sensation in the south of the Yangtze River, and more and more people visited Songquan's house, begging for poems and paintings.
Then again, Hengyang Province lot Xiangjiang River, there is a dragon son, he was ordered by his father, the Dragon King here to guard the Xiangjiang River. His poetry and paintings are also a bit famous, and he considered himself to be the first talent of the giant clan of the lake and the sea, and no one dared to put it in his eyes, and often said to people, "My name is like a wave running in the lake and the sea, but the earth and the sky are not yet fully aware of the talent of my king of the Xiangjiang River." So when he learned that Zhao Songquan's paintings have been famous in the south of the Yangtze River, he had a nuisance, and called the turtle general, asked him to go to the "Nanyue Painting Museum" to get a few paintings of Zhao Songquan to see.
Turtle will buy back from the Nanyue Museum of painting a few paintings, the dragon first took out a "pine and chrysanthemums" to the Dragon Palace, and immediately appeared to be a scene of autumn; and then replaced the "spring", suddenly full of fragrance, the Dragon Palace seems to have become a bright spring day, the The bees and butterflies in the glazed garden were all attracted. The more the dragon felt annoyed, long sigh said: "Ai! With this Zhao Songquan, I can never jump out of this deep pool." Seeing this, the turtle general hurriedly came to the dragon's side and offered a plan. After hearing this, the dragon son turned his worry into joy and told the turtle general to go and do it immediately.
This turtle general came to Nanyue, after private investigation, finally the osmanthus fairy's secret clear. He gritted his teeth and said: "You a osmanthus tree, how dare you dance, overwhelm the four seas Dragon Palace, humiliate our Prince Prince, do not punish you a little, do not know the power of our water Palace." He circled around the academy, and thought: this osmanthus tree has become a fruit, included in the immortal class, on their own Taoist law and her fight, certainly not her enemy, can not take the risk to start. He visited for a few more days, and knew that Songquan had a sister and brother-in-law who loved him the most. So he disguised himself as a wandering Taoist priest and scurried there, and as soon as he entered, he said, "The poor Taoist has come to rescue Zhao Songquan. Zhao Songquan has been mesmerized by a demon transformed into a laurel tree." And he added many bad words about the Osmanthus Fairy. When the two families heard this, they were so scared that they were fidgety and hurriedly begged this traveling Taoist for a ride to Songquan. Turtle will deliberately pretense, slowly took out a piece of iron amulet from his sleeve, said: "When there is no one, nail this iron amulet into the osmanthus tree in the academy, you can avoid disaster." After saying this, he left.
Songquan's brother-in-law, listening to the words of the Taoist monk, secretly nailed the iron talisman to the osmanthus tree. Sure enough, the osmanthus fairy fell ill. He was so anxious that he stayed at the bedside of Gui Hua Fairy all day and all night with tears in his eyes.
Seven days later, Songquan's sister and brother-in-law came to Songquan's home, and saw that the Fairy of the Flower Gui had fallen ill in bed and was unaware of her condition, so they believed more in the words of the traveler. The couple called Song Quan to one side and told him about the words of the Taoist monk and the nail iron talisman, and asked him to return to the right path and leave the demon quickly. When Song Quan heard this, he was so angry that his face turned blue, and said to his sister and brother-in-law: "She is sincere and affectionate to me, where is the slightest bit of demonic spirit? Even if she were a demon, I would be willing to die for her!" The husband and wife were snubbed by the younger brother and had no choice but to go back in dismay. After his sister and brother-in-law left, Song Quan went to the laurel tree and found the iron talisman. He pulled it out in a hurry, only to see that it was still covered with blood, Songquan was so angry that he slammed the iron talisman into the dung tank.
After the turtle general had cast the poisonous plan, he sneaked to the academy every day at noon to see the osmanthus tree. After seven days, only to see that the osmanthus tree again put out a strange fragrance, clusters of osmanthus blossoms glittering with golden light, the withered leaves also turned green. Turtle will be surprised, and slipped to the sister's house, instigated Songquan's brother-in-law, to the fifteenth night at midnight, climbed up the osmanthus tree, the tip of the cluster of the best-growing osmanthus branches cut off. The two of them were afraid that their younger brother would be trapped in an evil spirit and lose his future, and they listened to the words of the Taoist priests.
The cinnamon fairy ate this bitter, sick and well right after, and from her husband's mouth to ask about the original story, on the metamorphosis of the metamorphosis to raise the vigilance. Fifteenth night, Songquan has gone to bed, Guihua Fairy but not at all sleepy. When the third night had passed, Songquan's brother-in-law sneaked into the academy. He just climbed to the half waist of the osmanthus tree, suddenly a gust of wind blew, swept him up in the clouds in the middle of the day, after floating for half an hour, landed in front of their own house from the water surface of the water pond of five, six feet high, the body as if caught in the plywood as a movement can not, he looked down at the water, scared like sifting rice, mute voice shouting his wife to save his life. Songquan sister out, along the moonlight to the water above the city wall, scared dumbfounded, busy kneeling on the pond Kam kowtow, begged: "immortal ah, our husband and wife should not listen to the words of the Taoist, and will not dare to offend the immortal. Please look at my brother's face, save my husband's life" After a while, Songquan brother-in-law slowly moved to the shore, landing on the ground. Since this bitter experience, the couple no longer dare to listen to the words of the traveling Taoist, but still fear for Songquan pinch sweat.
The turtle will see one plan and two plans have not succeeded, plus Songquan's sister, brother-in-law and do not listen to his command, decided to do it themselves. He took advantage of the quiet time, touched the courtyard, and used all his strength to push down the big beams of the courtyard, and crushed the osmanthus fairy and Songquan to death together. Who knew that Osmanthus Fairy had already waited here. She pointed at the tortoise and scolded: "You bastard, we have no grievance or hatred with you, and we have not harmed a single hair of your Water Palace, but you are trying to put us to death by all means! "Without waiting for the turtle to speak, Fairy Gui Hua took down the golden hairpin on her head and threw it at the turtle, which immediately released ten thousand rays of light and burned the turtle into a big black stone turtle. In order to prevent the dragon from coming out to seek trouble, Guihua raised a stone drum from the academy and blew it with her mouth. The drum flew to Hengyang City and pressed on the exit of the dragon palace in Xiangjiang River. The drum grew bigger and bigger, and soon became a mountain, which was later called Shiku Mountain.
Songquan and Guihua Fairy loved each other and lived to a ripe old age. When Songquan died at the age of one hundred, the osmanthus fairy was nowhere to be found. However, verdant osmanthus trees grew everywhere in the foothills of Nanyue Mountain. Every year in August, the osmanthus tree blossomed yellow flowers, the fragrance wafted in the Nanyue mountain stops under the mountain, pouncing on the body of the guests in the tour of Yue. The black stone turtle, has been lying in the bamboo bush, sun and rain, no one cares about it. Until the Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor to set up a large monument in Nanyue, a moment to find a seat, a few old stonemasons to move the stone turtle to the Nanyue temple to send the scene, the stone turtle has been so pressed in the Royal Monument Pavilion below the monument.