Legend of the New Year: In ancient China, there was a monster called "Nian", with a sharp head and horns, ferocious and unusual, "Nian" beasts live in the bottom of the sea all year round, and every New Year's Eve, climbed up to the shore to devour livestock and hurt people's lives, so every New Year's Eve, people in villages and towns fled to the mountains to escape from the harm of "Nian", which is the most dangerous animal in the world. village and village people help old and young, fled to the mountains, to avoid the "year" of harm.
This year's New Year's Eve, the elephant relatives are busy packing things to escape to the mountains, this time the east end of the village came to a white-haired old man to a family of old women said that as long as he let him live in her house for a night, he will be able to "New Year" beasts away. The people do not believe that the old woman advised him to go to the mountains to avoid the good, the old man insisted on staying, the people see persuade him not to, they have to go to the mountains to avoid the good.
When the "year" beast as in previous years, ready to break into the village rampage, suddenly came the white-haired old man Rang sound of firecrackers, "year" beast trembling, no longer dare to come forward, the original "year" beast is most afraid of red, red, red, red, red. "The beast is most afraid of red, fire and explosions. At this time, the door opened wide, only to see the courtyard of an old man wearing a red robe laughed loudly, "the year" beast was shocked, fleeing in fear.
The next day, when people from the mountains will be to the village, found that the village is safe and sound, it suddenly realized that the original white-haired old man is to help us expel the "New Year" beast of the gods, people also found the white-haired old man to expel the "New Year" beast of the three! The people also discovered the three treasures of the white-haired old man to expel the "New Year" beast. From then on, every year on New Year's Eve, every family is sticking red couplets, firecrackers, household lights are brightly lit, to keep watch for the New Year. This custom is more and more widely spread, into the Chinese folk the most solemn traditional festival "New Year".
The legend of the New Year's Eve
After the death of Liu Bang, the son of Empress Lu, Liu Ying, ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of Han. Emperor Hui was weak and indecisive, and his power gradually fell into the hands of Empress Lu. After the death of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Empress Lu took control of the government and turned Liu's world into Lu's world. The senior officials of the court and the Liu's clansmen were y indignant, but they were all afraid of Empress Lu's brutality and dared not speak out.
After the illness and death of Empress Lu, all of them were afraid of being harmed and ostracized. So, they secretly gathered at the home of General Lu Lu and ****planned for a rebellion, so as to completely seize Liu's kingdom.
This matter reached the ears of Liu Sang, the king of Qi, who decided to send an army to crush the Lu Lu in order to protect Liu's kingdom. Then he contacted with Zhou Bo, the founding minister of the state, and Chen Ping, and designed to disarm the Lu Lu, and the "Lu Lu's Rebellion" was finally completely pacified.
After the rebellion was quelled, Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, was crowned Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and the Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the second son of Liu Bang, was given the title of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wen was y impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, so he designated the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the day of the quelling of the Lü's Rebellion, as a day of joy for the people, and all the houses in the capital were decorated with lanterns and colors to celebrate the occasion. From then on, the first day of the first month of the fifteenth has become a universal celebration of the folk festival - "haunted Lantern Festival"
Lu Ban built a stone bridge
According to legend, during the Yuan Dynasty, Zhaozhou (today's Zhao County, Hebei Province) south of the city, there is a stone bridge, was built by Lu Ban, very sturdy. After Lu Ban completed this bridge, he boasted, "There is no second bridge that can be compared to this one in ancient times." His words were heard by a local god named Zhang. Zhang rode a donkey under the bridge and said to Lu Ban with a smile, "This bridge is strong, but if I cross it, can you guarantee that the bridge will not shake? With that, he rode the donkey onto the stone bridge, only to see the bridge shaking as if it was about to collapse. Seeing this, Lu Ban ran under the bridge and fixed it with his two hands, making it as solid as ever. To this day, there are traces of the head and tail of the donkey and the four feet of the donkey ridden by Zhang Shenxian on the bridge. This story was first written in the Yuan Dynasty, "Hukai News Yijian Xunzhi", after the Yuan Dynasty, the story was widely circulated, and Zhang Shenxian also became Zhang Guolao. The story of Zhaozhou Bridge in the song and dance drama "Little Cowherd", which is in circulation today, is derived from this story. In fact, Zhaozhou Bridge was originally called Anji Bridge and was built by Li Chun, an artisan of the Sui Dynasty. The bridge still spans the river today.
The Origin of Tianjin
After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ascended to the throne, he divided his sons into kings and stationed them throughout the country. His fourth son, Zhu Di, was named King of Yan and stationed in Beiping, which is now Beijing. When Zhu Yuanzhang died, he passed the throne to his eldest grandson, Zhu Yun. Zhu Di fought against Zhu Yun for the throne and launched the "Battle of Jingnan" in Chinese history. In 1399, Zhu Di, the King of Yan, led an army southward, crossing the river from Sanqokou in Tianjin to attack Cangzhou, and in 1402, he attacked Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and ascended to the throne of the Son of Heaven. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he appreciated the Three Forks River Crossing, which he passed through when he fought for the world, and considered it a piece of feng shui land, so he asked his ministers to offer names. Finally, Zhu Di chose the word "Tianjin", meaning "the place where the Son of Heaven crosses the Jin", from which Tianjin got its name. Soon after, Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, Tianjin became the gateway to the capital, and its military status became increasingly important. Ming Dynasty Yongle two years (AD 1404), set up in Tianjin Wei, "Wei" is a military establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin *** set up three guards, the garrison a little more than 60,000 people. So, people also called Tianjin Tianjin Wei. Set up guards to build a city, Tianjin as a complete meaning of the city's history thus began.
Li Bai seeks a teacher
Li Bai, in his later years, was politically unpopular, and he traveled to and from Xuancheng, Nanling, Shexian (in Anhui Province), and Caishi with a sad mood, writing poems and drinking wine, and roaming the famous mountains and rivers.
One morning, Li Bai, as usual, in the city of Shexian streets of a hotel to buy wine, suddenly heard the next door to the firewood row of people in the question: "The old man, you are so old, how can you pick so much firewood, where do you live?"
The answer came in the form of a loud, hearty laugh. Then someone could be heard chanting a poem:
"Carrying a salary towards betrayal, selling wine and returning westward in the day.
Where is my home? Through the clouds into Cuiwei!"
Li Bai was shocked to hear this. Who is this? He was surprised to hear such a moving poem! He asked the bartender, and the bartender told him: this is an old man named Xu Xuanping, who hated the government, saw through the world, and lived in the mountains, but no one knew which mountain he lived in. Recently, he often traveled to this area, and every day at dawn, he was seen picking firewood into the town, with a flower dipper and a curved bamboo stick hanging on his firewood stretcher. When he sells his firewood, he drinks wine, and when he gets drunk, he recites poetry, all the way to the town, and the passers-by think he is crazy.
Li Bai secretly thought: this is not the same as his own "poetry crazy"? He immediately turned around and went out, only to see that the old man on the street bridge, although his steps are difficult, but Li Bai no matter how to catch up can not catch up.
Catching up with the bridge, through the bamboo forest, around the river branch (river bifurcation), Li Bai tired of panting, sore back and legs, fixed attention to look, the old man has long been no trace. Li Bai stuttered and sighed, "Could it be that I have really met an immortal!"
He lifted up his robe and drove another distance, but he still couldn't see the old man, so he came back disappointed.
That night, Li Bai couldn't sleep, recalling that he hadn't made any real poetic friends in most of his life, except for Du Fu. He did not expect to meet such a poet today, but he could not miss the opportunity and must find him!
The next day, Li Bai waited at the entrance of the Chai Cao Guan until the sunset, but there was no sign of the old man.
The third day, the fourth day, every day fell through.
Early in the morning of the fifth day, Li Bai picked up his wine pot and took dry food with him on his way. He made up his mind that if he couldn't find the old man, he would die even if he had to die here in the mountains and forests.
Turning over the mountains full of wildflowers, traveling through the fast flowing streams, and plucking the thorns, for more than a month, he still didn't see the old man's shadow. Li Bai was a bit discouraged. At this time, he recalled the old woman who used to sharpen needles with an iron pestle when he was a boy. The old woman said, "As long as you have the determination, an iron pestle can be sharpened into a needle." If he wanted to find the old man, it depended on whether he had the determination or not. Thinking of this, Li Bai tightened his belt, gritted his teeth, and walked forward again. Tired, lying on the rocks to sleep for a while; hungry, pick a handful of wild fruits to fill hunger; wine addiction, holding a wine pot to drink a mouthful.
This day at dusk, the evening sun dyed the sky red red red, clear springs and bamboo set each other off, look very beautiful. Li Bai was so preoccupied with the old man that he didn't care to enjoy the scenery. He dragged the tired body, limping to the Huangshan Mountain near the Ziyang Mountain. Turning over the mountain pass, he saw a huge stone standing in front of him, on which there seemed to be words carved. Li Bai forgot his fatigue and jumped on it, carefully recognizing it. Oh, it turned out to be a poem:
"Thirty years of living in seclusion, building a room on the top of the southern mountain.
Playing with the moon at night and drinking from the blue spring in the morning.
The woodcutter sings on the ridge, and the birds play in front of the rock.
If you are happy and do not know how old you are, you will forget the year of A Zi."
Reading it three times in a row, Li Bai exclaimed, "Wonderful! Wonderful! It's really the voice of an immortal!" He thought to himself: when I see the old man, I must pay him three visits and ask for advice. Although I have been dealing with poems for decades, this is the first time I have ever experienced a poem that smells like wildflowers.
He turned around and saw a pile of rice paddies spread out on the flat ground beside the cliff, which seemed to have been sunned by Xu Xuanping. Li Bai simply squatted down to the edge, while enjoying the mountain scenery, while waiting for the old man to collect the grain.
Dark, Li Bai suddenly heard the sound of water from the mountains, and looked at the sound, only to see the mountains on the other side of the river rowed a boat, a bearded old man standing in the bow of the boat to get the paddle. Li Bai went forward and asked, "Old man, may I ask, Xu Xuanping old man home where?"
It turns out that this old man is exactly what Li Bai is looking for Xu Xuanping old man, last time he saw Li Bai wearing the imperial brocade robes, thought it was the official sent to find him to do the job, so no longer willing to go to Shexian city. I didn't expect this person to follow him. At this time, the old man glanced at Li Bai, casually pointing to the boat hedge, carelessly replied: "A pole of bamboo in front of the door, is Xu Weng home!"
Li Bai raised his eyes and looked at the lush mountains, and then asked, "There are bamboos everywhere, where can I find them?"
The old man re-examined the dusty, sweaty guest and asked in return, "Are you ......?"
"I am Li Bai." Said the man, bowing y.
The old man froze, "You are Li Bai? Li Bai is you?"
Li Bai hurriedly explained his intention.
On hearing this, the old man arched his hands, "Aiya, you are the Poetry Immortal of today! What am I but a drop of water in the sea of poetry? You the sea how to come to a drop of water to seek advice, really dare not, dare not!" After saying this, he picked up the boat and was about to go back.
Li Bai pulled the old man's sleeve, and begged bitterly, "Old man, three months, I've been looking for you everywhere in the rain and wind, and it's not easy to see the teacher, can't you just send me back like this!"
Li Bai's sincere words touched the old man's heart. The two of them stared at each other for a long time, then the old man pulled Li Bai fiercely and jumped into the boat.
Since then, no matter in the rosy morning sunshine or in the afterglow of the setting sun, people often saw Li Bai and this old man, sitting on the big green stone by the stream drinking wine and reciting poems. The loud laughter, and the clamor of the flying waterfalls merged into one, with the stream together sent hundreds of miles and thousands of miles away ......
To this day, many visitors to Huangshan Mountain, always love to follow the murmuring stream, to trace Li Bai's wanderings.
See? Hutou Rock, in the sound string spring, there is a carved "drunken stone" two words of the boulder, legend has it, when Li Bai and the old man is here to enjoy the mountain scenery, drinking poetry. They often used the spring water to wash their wine cups, so this spring is called "wash cup spring".
Jianglang's talent
There was a famous scholar named Jiang Yan in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties, who wrote a lot of wonderful prose and poems in his life, and was known as "Jianglang, the Talented Scholar".
Jiang Yan was a native of Jiyang Kaocheng (present-day Lankao County, Henan Province) and grew up with his mother. Despite his family's poverty, Jiang Yan was able to write a good handful of essays in his youth, thanks to his own hard work. Later, Jiang Yan's fame reached Liu Jingsu, the King of Jianping in the Southern Song Dynasty. Liu Jingsu admired Jiang Yan's talent, so he wrote to Jiang Yan, hoping that Jiang Yan could be his subordinate. Later, Jiang Yan visited Liu Jingsu, and the two of them had a very good conversation. Soon after, Liu Jingsu promoted Jiang Yan to be the official of Southern Yanzhou. But he didn't realize that a magistrate named Guo Yanwen had committed a crime, and in order to exonerate himself, he falsely accused Jiang Yan of accepting a bribe from him, and Jiang and Guo were arrested together and sent to the state capital's prison.
Jiang Yan asked himself to have no shame, so he wrote a long letter to Liu Jingsu in prison, in which he generously expressed his feelings of inner aggression, which is really an exquisite article. After Liu Jingsu read the letter, he was so moved that he immediately sent someone to release Jiang Yan from prison. After he was released from prison, Jiang Yan won the first place in the examination of Southern Xuzhou, and from then on, the fame of the talented Jiang Yan became even greater.
After Xiao Daocheng destroyed the Song Dynasty and established the Qi Dynasty, he asked Jiang Yan to be a historian, specializing in writing history. Once, an ancient tomb was excavated in Xiangyang, and a jade mirror and some bamboo slips were unearthed. No one could read the ancient characters engraved on the bamboo slips, so people showed them to Jiang Yan, who recognized that the bamboo slips were written during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou. From then on, Jiang Yan's fame was widely spread. After Xiao Yan established the Liang Dynasty, he made Jiang Yan a senior adviser to the emperor, and later he was named Marquis of Liling and given a fiefdom.
Jiang Yan became a big official, living a life of honor, no longer willing to write articles. For a long time, the talent recedes, sometimes barely write a little something, but people read it and feel very boring. Therefore, people are very sorry to say: "Jianglang talent exhausted.
Plum Wife and Crane Son
Lin Bu, in his later years, lived in seclusion on Mount Kokushan in West Lake, Hangzhou, and planted three hundred and sixty-five plants on the mountain. He planted three hundred and sixty-five plum trees on the mountain. He worked hard to weed and fertilize the trees on weekdays. When the plums were ripe, there were groups of vendors who came to buy his plums. He sold plums not by catty but according to the number of plums per tree, the gross judgment, the valuation is fair. So vendors like to buy his plums, he also prepared three hundred and sixty-five bamboo tubes, the money sold under each tree into a separate bamboo tube numbered. Whether there are customers, no customers or customers, customers, customers less. The money from one bamboo tube of plums a day, never use more than a penny.
He also raised two cranes. When the guests came, the gentleman made a sudden whistle, and the white cranes immediately flew and stood in front of the gentleman. He put the money and the note in a bag, hung it on the crane's neck, and let the crane fly to the market to buy fish, meat, wine and food. When the traders saw the white crane flying, they knew that the gentleman had a guest, so they paid for the goods according to the note and gave them to the white crane to bring back.
Legend of Tieguanyin
In Anxi Xiping Ou village, there is a beautiful fairy lake, the lake cliffs growing a strange orchid, there is a picking tea picking flowers of the little girl in order to pick a branch of a strange orchid, she fell off a hundred feet of dangerous cliffs ...... Since then, the tea grown here are with orchid fragrance, the local people in memory of this beautiful and kind girl, the tea named "Tie Guanyin", "iron" resonates with "tea", "Guanyin" symbolizes the beauty. This legend has also become a tea village people never finish singing a hymn!
The legend of Zhaozhou Bridge
Ancient Zhaozhou, is now Zhao County, Hebei Province. Zhaozhou has two stone bridges, one in the south of the city and one in the west. The big stone bridge in the south of the city looks like a rainbow over the river, magnificent and majestic. Folklore says, this big stone bridge is Lu Ban repair; west of the city of small stone bridge, look like a small white dragon floating on the water, alive, legend has it that this small stone bridge is Lu Ban's sister Lu Jiang repair. These two bridges have been repaired well! The stage staged "Little Cattle", there is also this lyrics: "Zhaozhou stone bridge Lu Ban grandfather repair, jade railing saints stay, Zhang Guolao donkey ride on the bridge to go, Chai Wang Wang cart rolled a ditch." Here sings the legend of Lu Ban repair Zhaozhou Bridge.
Legend has it that Lu Ban and his sister traveled around the world, went to Zhaozhou, a white Xiao River blocked the way. On the river side of the carts, tandem, onion sellers, garlic sellers, horseback riding to catch the exams, pulling donkeys to catch the meeting of the hustle and bustle, scrambling to cross the river into the city. There were only two small boats swinging around in the river, and they could not pass a few people for half a day. When Lu Ban saw this, he asked, "Why don't you build a bridge over the river?" People said, "The river is wide, the water is deep, the waves are fast, who dares to repair it, and we can't find such a skillful craftsman even if we hit the lantern!" Lu Ban listened to his heart, and discussed with his sister, Lu Jiang, to build two bridges for the pedestrians.
Lu Ban said to his sister, "Let's build the big stone bridge first and the small stone bridge later!"
Lu Jiang said, "OK!"
Lu Ban said; "Building bridges is hard work, don't be afraid to suffer!"
Lu Jiang said, "I'm not afraid!"
Lu Ban said; "It is good that you are not afraid. Your heart is stupid and your hands are clumsy, if you are afraid of suffering again, you will be in trouble." This sentence made Lu Jiang upset. She said defiantly: "You do not think that my heart stupid hand clumsy, this day, we separate repair, you repair big, I repair small, and you race
a race, see who repair fast, good repair."
Lu Ban said, "Good, race! When will the work begin and when will it be finished?"
Lu Jiang said: "The stars start working in the dark, and the rooster crows in the morning to finish." The brother and sister made a deal, and they split up to prepare.
Lu Ban unhurriedly slipped away to the west toward the mountains. When Lu Jiang reached the west side of the city, she hurriedly got her hands dirty. She repaired while thinking: do not need to be busy, must pull you down. Sure enough, before the third watch was over, the small stone bridge was repaired. Then she quietly ran to the south of the city to see what her brother had repaired. To the south of the city to see, the river is not even a bridge shadow. Lu Ban was not at the river either. She thought to herself that her brother had lost this time. But turned his head, west of Taihang Mountain, a man driving a flock of sheep, jumping and scurrying down the mountain. Waiting to get closer to see, the original sheep driving is her brother. Which is to drive the sheep ah, clearly driven to a piece of snow like white, like jade as smooth stone, these stones to the river, a blink of an eye into a processed variety of stone. There are square bridge foundation stones, rectangular bridge deck stones, crescent-shaped arch ring stones, and beautiful railings. Beautiful columns, where the bridge, everything. Lu Jiang a look at the heart of a shock, so good stone bridge to build up how strong ah! In contrast, they built that can not, need to quickly think of remedies. It is too late to rebuild, just in the carving on the efforts to cover him! She quietly went back to the west side of the city to start, in the railing carved Pangu open heaven, Yu water, and carved the cowherd and the weaving maiden, the phoenix and the sunrise. What rare birds and animals, exotic flowers and plants, are carved like the real thing. Carved birds can fly, carved flowers scented. She herself looked at this exquisite carving satisfied, and ran to the south of the city to peep at Lu Ban. At first glance, she exclaimed. The rainbow in the sky, how to fall on the river? Fixed attention and then a closer look, it turned out that the brother to build a bridge, just missing a good bridge on the last pillar of the lookout. Her brother won a bet, so she played a joke with him. She dodged squatting behind the willow tree, pinching the throat and stretching the neck, "coo-coo-coo -" learned a chicken call. She screamed, which led to the nearby people's home chickens also screamed. Lu Ban heard the chickens, rushed to the last pillar to the bridge, the bridge is also considered to be completed.
The two bridges, a small one and a large one, are very beautiful. Lu Ban's big stone bridge, majestic, durable; Lu Jiang repair small stone bridge, delicate, beautiful and delightful. Zhaozhou built two bridges in one night, and the next day it was a sensation in the nearby state government offices and counties. Everyone watched and praised. The skilled craftsmen came here to learn their crafts, and the skillful girls came here to describe their patterns. People came to visit every day, like running water. This strange thing soon spread to the Peng Cai immortal island immortal Zhang Guolao's ears. Zhang Guolao didn't believe it, he thought Lu Ban had such a great ability! He invited Mr. Chai to go and see for himself. Zhang Guolao rode a small black donkey, Chai Wang Wang pushed a one-wheeled cart, the two came to Zhaozhou stone bridge, just met Lu Ban is standing on the bridge, looking at the pedestrians laughing! Zhang Guolao asked Lu Ban: "This bridge is you repair?" Lu Ban said: "Yes, what's wrong with it?" Zhang Guolao pointed to the little black donkey and Master Chai's one-wheeled cart and said, "If we cross the bridge, will it stand up?" Lu Ban gave them a glance and said, "If a big mule and a big horse, and a golden carriage and a silver carriage can pass through, can't this little donkey and cart of yours pass through?" When Zhang Guolao heard this, he thought that he was talking too much, so he used magic to gather the sun and the moon, and put them in the pouch on the donkey's back, with the sun on the left side and the moon on the right side. Master Chai also used magic to gather the five famous mountains and mounted them on the cart. The two men smiled a little, pushing the donkey to the bridge. As soon as they got on the bridge, they looked at the bridge and saw it lolling. Lu Ban hurriedly jumped to the bridge, raised his right hand to hold the bridge, save the bridge.
The two men passed, Zhang Guolao looked back at the bridge to the Chai Wangzhi said: "No wonder people praise, Lu Ban repair this bridge is really unparalleled in the world." Master Chai nodded his head and gave a thumbs up to Lu Ban, who had only just returned to the bridge. Lu Ban looked at their backs and said in his heart, "These two people are not simple!"
Now, Zhaozhou stone bridge deck, there are still Zhang Guolao riding a donkey stepped on the hoofprints and Chai Wang cart rolled a ditch. To Zhaozhou stone bridge to go to the people, can be seen, the bridge below the original also left a big handprint Lu Ban master bridge, now can not see.
(P.S.: According to historical sources, Zhaozhou Bridge was designed and built by Li Chun, an artisan of the Sui Dynasty.)