When you enter the Dong village, you can often see a very chic wind and rain bridge. When it comes to wind and rain bridges, there is a myth and legend.
Anciently, there is no equalization of the big village, the Dong family living in the mid-levels, a small cottage, only a dozen families. There was a small cottage with a descendant, named Buka, married a wife, named Peiguan. The husband and wife were so in love that they were almost inseparable. Two people work back, a pick firewood, a load of grass, a carry hoe, a cattle, always followed by back and forth. This Peiguan was so beautiful that when the couple crossed the bridge, the fish in the river leapt out of the water to see them.
One morning, the river suddenly surged. Mr. and Mrs. Buka were in a hurry to go to the west mountain to work, and they could not care less, and went to the small wooden bridge in front of the village. Just as they walked to the center of the bridge, suddenly blew a gust of wind, scraping the Buka can not open their eyes, Peiguan "ouch" fell into the river. Buka opened his eyes to see, his wife disappeared, know scrape down the river, he jumped headfirst into the water, dive into the river. However, back and forth to look for a few rounds are not found. Folks know, also rushed to help him look for, looking for a long time, still can not find Peiguan. What's going on here?
There was a crab spirit deep in the bay, and it swept Peiguan into a cavern at the bottom of the river. All of a sudden, the crab spirit turned into a beautiful descendant and wanted Peiguan to be his wife, but Peiguan refused and slapped him. He immediately showed his fierce face and threatened Pei Guan. Peiguan cried and cursed, and the sound of his cries and curses traveled from the bottom of the river to the ears of a flowery dragon upstream.
Then the wind and rain came, and the waves rolled in, and a flower dragon was seen in the waves, looking east and west with its head held high. The dragon looked to the left, the wave hit to the left, the left side of the mountain collapsed, the dragon looked to the right, the wave rushed to the right, the right side of the shore cracked. The small wooden bridge has long been swept away by the waves. The people were frightened. But the dragon's head came to the beach side of Buka, the dragon's head even nodded a few times the waves calmed down. Then the flower dragon made a circle on the water and rushed to the bottom of the river. Then, from the water out of a stream of black smoke, rose into the air into a cloud, the flower dragon rushed into the air, flopping body, the black cloud down, finally pressed it to show its original shape. Turned out to be the drum tower top so big black crab. The black crab panicked and fled, climbed to the cliff three feet high. The flower dragon went down to the water and turned over, the dragon tail swung, and swept the crab down to the water. This several rounds, the crab is exhausted, wobbly crawling to the bamboo forest, want to use the bamboo to block the flower dragon. But the flower dragon jumped up, opened its mouth to spray water, spraying the bamboo forest piece by piece down, the crab fell into the river. Flower Dragon closely chased to the bottom of the water, the waves rolled down the river, and then no longer see the black crab showed up. Later, not far from the river bay, revealing a crab-shaped black stone, is the flower dragon to the crab essence of the town. This stone, later people called it the crab stone.
When the river had calmed down, a woman's voice was heard calling from the opposite bank. Buka took a look and it was none other than his wife. Buka called a few people to swim over immediately. After getting ashore, Peiguan said to Buka, "Thanks to Flower Dragon's rescue!" Everyone realized that it was the Flower Dragon who had saved her, and they were all very grateful to the Flower Dragon. At that moment, the Flower Dragon flew back upstream, nodding to the people from time to time.
This story soon spread throughout the Dong village. The people of the small wooden bridge near the water was converted into a large wooden bridge like a promenade in the air, and the four center pillars of the bridge were engraved with the pattern of the flower dragon, wishing that the flower dragon would always be there. After the completion of the large wooden bridge in the air promenade style, a grand celebration ceremony was held, very lively. At this time, colorful clouds in the sky, shaped like a long dragon, haze, people look closely, it is the flower dragon back to visit everyone. Therefore, the later called this bridge for the Dragon Bridge. Some places also called the flower bridge, but also because the bridge can be sheltered from the wind and rain, so it is also called wind and rain bridge.
2. Legend of Huixian Bridge
Huixian Bridge is on the Nationality Road in Yuzhong District, in the center of the square in front of the present-day Huixian Building. The bridge disappeared early, and my uncle came to Chongqing in the early 1920s to work as a laborer, and never saw the bridge. However, the place name of Huixianqiao existed until the 80s of last century.
Anciently, the city of Chongqing is not very populated, Daliangzi (now Xinhua Road) area is still a forest. A small stream flowed down from Daliangzi, approximately down present-day Zhengyang Street, through Dayanggou, to Hongyadong, and into the Jialing River. Huixian Bridge was a bridge over this stream, probably less than 10 meters long. The reason why it is called Huixian Bridge is that legend has it that someone met a fairy here. However, there are several versions of the legend.
One version is that an old man opened a cold tavern at the end of the bridge, and often a Taoist priest from Laojun Cave on the south bank came to drink in his tavern. He invited the old man to go to Laojun Cave to play. When the old man went there, the Taoist priest treated him to a bowl of douhua, which the two of them could never finish. In the afternoon, the old man returned to the tavern, the wife was surprised, said: "How come you do not come back for many years?" The old man said: "You fainted yo, I just play half a day." But when he looked in the mirror, he grew a long white beard. The old man realized that the Taoist priest he met was a fairy. The rumor spread, so people called the bridge in front of the tavern the Bridge of the Meeting Immortals.
The origin of the Cat's Bridge - a legendary story!
Once upon a time, there was a bridge at the corner of Pipa Street in Hangzhou, where an old tanner lived. The old tanner was a lonely old man who kept a cat at home. The cat was bare without a few hairs, ugly dead, it will not catch mice, lazy even screaming is not happy to call, a day to night muffled in the old tanner's feet dozing. Neighbors look bad, they advised the old tanner: "Throw it away before it's too late, raising a mangy cat has what use ah!" But the old tanner heard, always shook his head: "My home is cold and quiet, a cat is also a good companion."
One day, a treasure hunter passed by here, coincidentally, a boot rear eye off, they turned into the old tanner's shoe repair store, asked him to repair it. The treasure hunter waited at the side, looked around, and saw the mangy cat at the old tanner's feet. He stared at the cat for half a day, and asked the old tanner: "Old uncle, this cat is you keep?" The old tanner nodded. The treasure hunter asked again, "I'll give you three hundred taels of silver, sell it to me!" The old tanner just thought he was looking for a good time, so he said, "What are you going to do with such a cat?" The treasure hunter said, "You don't have to care what you buy it for, as long as you promise to give it to me, you will pay the silver with one hand and take the goods with the other." The old tanner shook his head, "There is no such thing as three hundred taels of silver to buy a cat! I'm not selling, I'm not selling!"
The people who watched from the sidelines advised the old tanner, "Old tanner, you've worked hard for most of your life, and you haven't even accumulated three taels of silver, now you have three hundred taels of silver, and you won't be poor in the days to come, so quickly sell the mangy cat to him."
The old tanner didn't move, he said slowly: "I've been poor for most of my life, as long as the hard work and hard work over the day foot, can have a bowl of rice is good, never expect this kitten to make a fortune!"
People laughed at the old tanner as a dullard.
You a word, I a word, we are talking about, just sheep dam head of the vicious habits of the bully scalp head A five passed by here. Scalp head A five heard that there is such a cheap thing, hastily crowded into the crowd, to the treasure collector arch hand, said: "Guests please! It's not hard for you to get this scalp cat, just tell me what the cat is for, and I'll take care of it!"
As soon as the people saw the scalp-headed Wu, they avoided him. The treasure hunter saw this person in the local is a powerful face, expected to have his appearance, this cat is not afraid of not buy hand, said: "Master five, you look carefully at this cat, although only a few yellow hairs, but in the sun shining, this is a golden cat it! Master Five doesn't know that on the top of the Sixth Harmony Pagoda next to the Qiantang River, there are twelve jade mice that come out in the middle of the night to play on the top of the pagoda. That jade mouse is a priceless treasure, and only this golden silk cat can catch it."
Scalp-head Ah Wu heard the heart itchy, belly has long played another calculator, but the mouth said: "Good, good!"
Cai Bao guest a touch on the body, coincidentally with the silver is not enough, to the head of the scalp A five said: "five masters, and you have a deal, I immediately take the silver to go, the night fast side and then come to hold the cat." Said, put on the freshly nailed boots, and hurried away.
Scald-head Ah Wu saw the treasure collector go far away, turned back to the old tanner and said, "Old man, lend the cat to the fifth master to use for a while, and then come back to return it to you when you catch the jade mouse." The old tanner scrambled to protect the cat and replied, "At first I couldn't part with the cat, but now I can't part with the twelve jade mice. The treasure is everyone's, and should be allowed to remain on the top of the tower; who are you to capture it!"
Scald-head A Wu heard a crooked mouth, the sleeve a push, three punches and two kicks will be the old tanner knocked out on the ground. He picked up the cat from the old tanner's side and, with a yell, took off.
After darkness fell, Scald-head A Wu, drunk and alone, holding the cat, swayed toward the Qiantang River. He climbed up the hill to the foot of the Sixth Harmonies Pagoda, and waited until the moon was in the sky in the middle of the night, and raised his head to take a look, ha! Sure enough, there were twelve crystal bright jade mice, are around the top of the tower, jumping around to play. Scalp-head Ah Wu hurriedly released the cat from his arms. It is really strange, this cat usually only squinted up dozing, this time but suddenly spirited up: head erect ears, bowing tail, staring up two eyes, flashing, that look like a just out of the mountains of the little tiger. It was towards the top of the tower, "Mee-woo, Mee-woo" called twice, then a long leap up to the top of the tower to go
Jade rats see the golden cat, one by one are scared from the top of the tower fell down, fell to pieces. Scalp head A five rushed over, disappeared jade rats, thought escaped, an arrow scurry out. Because he was drunk, the mind does not clear, coupled with the force of the big, slippery feet, "goo goo goo goo" rolled down the hill, "flop" a sound, fell into the Qiantang River to go.
Then again, the treasure hunter went home to get the silver, first turned to the market to buy a large net and a bundle of silk, and then to the old tanner's shoe store to hold the cat. A look, the old tanner fainted on the ground, the gold cat early disappeared. His heart a elusive: no, must be the scalp head A five first hand! He hurriedly chased to the Qiantang River. Originally, the treasure hunter in front of the scalp head A five sold a secret: only tell the use of the cat, but does not teach the method of catching jade mice. When catching jade mice, we must first open a large net under the tower, laying thick silk wool, and then release the cat. In this way, the jade mouse will not escape or fall to pieces.
When the treasure hunter arrived at the Sixth Harmonies Pagoda, the jade mouse had already fallen to pieces, and the scalp-head Ah Wu had died in the river. When he saw this, he stumbled and sighed; but things could not be undone, so he had to admit his bad luck and carry the big net away.
From then on, there were no more twelve jade mice on the Sixth Harmony Pagoda.
The bridge next to the old tanner's shoe repair store, because of this incident, it was called the "cat bridge".
Old times, Hefei East Gate outside the dam on the east end of the street along the Interstate River to the north of the Branch River, in the Branch River on the mouth of the bridge, the name is: "Phoenix Bridge". In the earliest days, this is a river beach, beach bank green trees and flowers surrounded by bees and birds and the scenery is very beautiful.
Legend has it that on the night of the Tanabata Festival one year, the sisters of a village near the river beach gathered together, have knotted colorful threads and wore colorful needles in the hope of becoming "skillful hands", "skillful sister", "skillful wife", in order to get the God of heaven. in the hope of becoming "skillful hands", "skillful sisters", and "skillful daughters-in-law", so as to be rewarded by the God of Heaven. Just when the sisters were busy and happy, a hand of the most dexterous girl suddenly saw the night sky sky door open, the Milky Way first crossing, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden met. The girl couldn't help but cry out in joy: "Look! Look! The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden are meeting!" In order not to lose the elegance of the girl, the girl from time to time with a hand on the mouth to cover the cover. When the gods saw this, they mistook it for a wish to grow a beard on the girl's mouth, and gave it to her. Since then, the girl has grown a thick beard on her mouth.
A girl with a thick beard on her mouth is not a man, not a woman, how can she see others? The girl is hiding in her boudoir all day long, the door does not come out, more than worry, bitter. Another silver moon in the sky at night, the more the clever girl think the more difficult to feel the taste, the days are difficult, they quietly came to the Interfax alone, to the sky and the silver moon sighed: "God ah, your reward did not bring me the slightest happiness and joy, but the opposite of harming my good bitter ah! If you have a spirit, let me put on my wings and fly to the southern sky to get out of this boundless sea of misery." At the end of his speech, he jumped into the river with a thud.
But the god of the sky really heard Miss Qiao's cries in the southern sky, and felt y guilty. However, Miss Qiao had already thrown herself into the river, what should be done? The God of Heaven thought for a moment, took out a tail of brocade feathers to the girl threw the river place, only to see the river instantly waves, suddenly flew out of the river a colorful golden phoenix.
Since then, this place has been given by the God of heaven auspicious gas, every morning, the rising sun, colorful sunshine reflecting the earth, auspicious gas lingering, there are always a number of phoenixes in the middle of the dance, a good fairy music scene. Later, people for the admiration of the clever girl, and think of the spirit of the phoenix, will be here to build a large green stone bridge, called the "Phoenix Bridge".
Fengqiao legend
A temple can only have a monk in charge, cold mountain and pick up two monks in a temple, who hosted it? Both monks are very polite, push and push, no result. This temple is only his two monks, it does not matter, until one after another to recruit a group of small monks in, there is a problem. The young monks asked, "Old monk, which sutra to recite today," and Hanshan said, "You should ask Master Shide first." The little monk went to ask Shide, Shide said: "Still should ask Han Shan master." They respected each other, but the little monk suffered, how to entertain the guests, how much incense oil to buy, who to send to collect firewood, and so on. The little monk is at a loss, there are opinions, it is difficult to barely blah blah blah blah blah blah. Little monk's words to Cold Mountain, pick up the ears, the two discussed again, push and push, or no results. At this time came an old peasant woman, said: "two masters do not humble, I come to give you an idea. You compare your skills, and the one with the most skills will be the head monk, which is the fairest." Cold Mountain, pick up the hearing, is a way, but, than what, the peasant woman pointed to a river in front of the temple, said, this river lacks a bridge, folks come and go by crossing the river, and inconvenient and dangerous, please show your magic, change a bridge out, which becomes out is which is the ability of the big. Monks do not fight words, so, not afraid of cold mountain pick up hidden spells, really pick up the first spell, the body of the monk's clothes off, to the river a throw, changed into a bridge, but unfortunately, no bridge support, a, the wind blew, look at it is going to be scraped down. Cold Mountain hastily will be in the hands of the Zen staff to the river side of a plug, the operation of the spell, Zen staff suddenly turned into a tree, the tree towards the other side of the bank a spread, a bridge will be stable and lying on the river. The old peasant woman smiled and said, "It's still Cold Mountain who is more capable." Said a handkerchief towards the feet in front of a throw, handkerchief into a lotus flower, she stepped on the lotus flower rose into the air, cold mountain pick up to look up, it turned out that the old peasant woman is the Goddess of Mercy change. Cold Mountain had to do as a monk, the temple is also called "Cold Mountain Temple". Cold Mountain that Zen stick, is made of maple, the bridge is naturally called "Maple Bridge".