Myths and legends about Mount Tai

1, the five great pines

five great pines diagonally depending on the mountain, backed by five pine pavilion, where you can look at the eighteen plate, the South Heavenly Gates, only to see the two mountains face each other, ten thousand ren in the bird road hundred folds, clouds steam haze, disorientation ears and eyes between the clothes, the pine waves gusts, passing thousands of valleys and ravines are not endless.

Here you can also look down the Yunbu Bridge, only to see the water gurgling, steeply into the stream, waterfalls hanging streams, splash flowers diarrhea beads, the wind and water sound, all the music is silent, the scenery of the beautiful and secluded to the words.

It is said that Qin Shi Huang did the emperor, found that the southeast of the son of heaven, fearing that others took his throne of the emperor, with a large group of people, from the Kyoto Xianyang set off, came to Taishan vast Zen, one would like to take this to report the work of heaven and earth, and more importantly, is to the world to show off his might, in order to deter service to the world.

Suddenly, the weather suddenly changed, dark clouds rolled down from the mountain, and suddenly the sky was dark, wind, rain, thunder and lightning came together. Emperor was caught off guard, see a pine tree in front, up to several feet high, branches and leaves, canopy such as a shed, the wind and rain, they rushed to hide under the tree to avoid the rain, the entourage early chaos, drilling holes drilling holes, climbing cliffs to climb the cliffs.

In a short while, the wind and clouds scattered, the rain cleared, the first emperor because of the tree, was not attacked by the wind and rain, in order to reward the pine tree for the rain, the first emperor immediately sealed it for the "five big doctors".

The holy decree just down, I heard someone on the tree said: "the world is united, you do not take the gods of earth and grain as a priority, the big construction, repair Afang Palace, build the tomb of Mount Li, a large increase in taxes, the random distribution of labor, no virtue, no benevolence, no manners, the emperor's order, what is the arbitrary seal around"

The first emperor heard this, and remembered that just now met with the rain, felt really bad luck, and it is said that the pine tree is the best way to prevent the rain. Feel really bad luck, it is said, in the Wanli thirty years, due to the Taishan dragon rose, flash flood waterfall, Qin Song was washed away, we see today is not the Qin Song, but the Qing Dynasty, when the Kangxi supplement.

2, look out for people pine

Wu Daifu Pine above the slope, there is a curling pavilion of pine trees, a long branch of the trunk stretched diagonally down, as if the enthusiasm of Taishan in the hope of the arrival of guests at home and abroad, many young couples, but also as a symbol of fidelity and unswerving love will be her, in the tree under the photo, because she upward cohesion of a touching love story.

Legend, a long, long time ago, in the vicinity of the Chaoyang hole lived a young couple, they work at sunrise and sunset, love each other, charity. One day, a foreign florist to Taishan to collect flowers and plants, accidentally lost their footing and fell off the cliff, was saved by her husband back home, the two took good care of, the florist soon recovered his health.

They did, the next year, Mount Tai really flowers and grass, very beautiful, and once again, a stonemason to their home to avoid the rain, they poured all of their hospitality, stonemason in order to thank them for their hospitality, overnight chiseled all the way up and down the mountain of the disk, attracting a large number of visitors, so that the couple was very eye-opening, and later, in order to dress up Mount Tai to make it even more beautiful, determined to go out to study outside! The husband was determined to go out to learn the art.

However, the husband left a year, two years, three years, but the delay in hearing the return date, from spring to summer, from fall to winter, the young wife stood on the hillside anxiously looking, persistent expectation, looking forward to her husband's return.

One day, her husband finally came back, see his wife into a pine tree, grief abnormal, so in the tree built a stone house, day and night to guard his wife, to his wife full of love, are dedicated to the Taishan Mountain, for the decoration of the Taishan Mountain, the construction of the Taishan Mountain, to the Taishan Mountain tour guests, did a lot of good things.

3, fly to the stone

In the Royal Tent above the cliff, under the five dafu pine, there is a huge stone steep, dangerous as an egg, shaking to pour, engraved on the "fly to the stone" three words, especially striking.

According to legend, Song Zhenzong led thousands of people and ten thousand horses to Taishan Zen, traveling to the clouds on the bridge, only to see the heavy mountain stacked green, white cloud pressure head, Qin Pine Ting Ting, streams, waterfalls, as if the Milky Way hanging upside down, the mountains green and green water, as if the new rain clearing of the clean, at the bottom of the stream, capture the jade beads agarwood, under the gurgling of the water, the front of the beauty of the songs and dances, according to the back of the ancient green mountains, good to not consume the remote and at ease.

The civil and military ministers ran this and that, busy and happy. Coincidentally, this time, Mount Tai God Huang Feihu parade from here through, see the true emperor so enjoy, can not help but angry: "this incompetent emperor, named to Mount Tai Zen, in fact, is a tour of the mountains, the heart is not true, the intention is not sincere, quickly bomb him down the mountain.

So the god of the mountain made a spell, will be around a huge stone toward the true father rolled. True Father at this time is enjoying the optimistic scenery, suddenly heard a sound like thunder, turn around and look, see a large stone pressure top and came, scared three souls six spirit are up in the sky, busy shouting "ouch, my mother, hurry up to save the driver" at this moment where there are people answering the voice of the ministers of the civil and military have fled to go, and busy shouting: "Banzai don't be afraid of the stone is the old man! The first time I saw this, I was so happy to see you.

Zhenzong heard, and saw the boulder towering, like a salute to himself, so back to bed, beckoning the civil and military officials, said in a serious manner "lackeys, a piece of gravel will scare you into this way?

I am the true dragon son of heaven, is the Yuanjun sent to receive the welcome, how can I will suffer this disaster?"

This is the first time I have ever seen the Emperor's heart beating, so I quickly got up and went to the mountain. In order to please the emperor, Wang Qinruo named the stone "receiving the driving stone", and named the stone ping where the emperor rested "the royal tent ping".

4, Wangfusan

Legend, a long time ago, a Dongyue temple fair, a newlywed couple to Taishan incense, hoping that after the wedding can be well-fed, the next year to give birth to a big fat boy. Two people intoxicated in the joy of the newlyweds, talking and laughing along the way, unknowingly came to the pine mountain near the Pan Road. Just as they were climbing the eighteen pans in high spirits, they wanted to take possession of it.

Only when he made a wink, the attendant servant understood and came up to molest her. When the groomer saw that someone was molesting his wife, he rushed forward to protect her. The groomer, who was weak in body and strength, was no match for those tough officers.

Several officers joined hands, a burst of punches and kicks, and then pushed the groom to the bottom of the ravine and fell to his death. The officer turned back to the bride and said with a smile on his face, "Our son has fallen in love with you, it is your good fortune, in the future there will be you enjoy endless glory and wealth," said even pulling and tugging to bring her up to the top of the mountain.

The gentleman was as sweet as honey in his heart as he traveled through the mountains and the water and gained a beautiful woman. He came to the top of the mountain with great excitement, and said to the servants, "This Mount Tai is the place where all the emperors have sacrificed to heaven and earth, and it would be better for me and my wife to worship heaven and earth and be married here." He said that he would marry the woman. That woman at this time has been grieved to the extreme, want to cry without tears.

She said, "It's okay to get married, but in the panic, I didn't even have time to say a word to my husband, and he was buried in the valley."

The man heard her say that, and thought that she agreed to marry him, so he agreed to her.

Seeing that the woman calmly arranged the hair on her head, unhurriedly walked up the hill, gazing at the place where her husband was buried, while the body company of the officer did not pay attention to, shouted to the valley: "Husband, wait a minute, I'm coming with you," said then jumped off the cliff, to martyrdom. In order to commemorate this loyal and chaste woman, the descendants named the hill where they also looked at their husbands as "Wangfushan".

5, Dai Temple Tian Kuang Hall Taishan gods mural

Everyone knows that "the gods of Taishan", it is really big and small temples are all over the place. The names of the gods and goddesses are also very varied, from the heavenly lord, down to the landlord, there is really nothing strange. So many gods and goddesses are concentrated up and down Mount Tai, how did this come about?

Legend has it that in the very ancient times, under the Jiangxi Longhu Mountain, out of a true life, was appointed by the Jade Emperor, he came down to earth, named Bai Shilang. When Bai's Lang grew up, he went to school in the East Village across the river.

When he crossed the river every morning and evening, an old man with a white beard would come and carry him on his back willingly and obediently. As time went on, Bai Shilang's mother felt strange and asked her son, "Why don't you cross the river without wetting your shoes or getting your feet cold?" Bai Shilang told her, "Every day an old man carries me across the river." When the mother heard this, she told Bai Shilang, "Tomorrow you ask the old man why he carries you across the river."

When he crossed the river the next morning, Bai Shilang asked the old man in detail, and the old man said, "My royal majesty, you are the true son of God, and the emperor of heaven has sent me to serve you as an errand boy, so that in twenty years' time you will be the king of the people and the landowner of a dynasty."

Bai Shilang went home and smugly told his mother, who was so excited that she looked forward to her son being the emperor every day. Every day when she was cooking under the stove, she used a burning stick to knock on the statue of Zaowangjie to recite, "Zaowangjie you listen: if my son becomes the emperor, I am avenging any hatred, and avenging any injustice." For three meals a day, she knocked on the Zaowang master and said it three times.

On the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, Master Zao was going up to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on the good and evil on earth, and he truthfully made a report to the Jade Emperor on the words and deeds of Bai Shilang's mother. The Jade Emperor did not believe it, Zao Wang said, "Grandpa Heaven, I get knocked three times a day, if you don't believe it take a look at the pimple on the head of the little god." With that, he stretched his head and showed the Jade Emperor with his finger.

This time the Jade Emperor can be angry, think really want to tell Bai Shilang sat in the world, his mother this practice is not good enough? So he ordered the God of Thunder and the Mother of Lightning to come down to Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Province on the sixth day of the sixth month of the next year, and to draw off the dragon's tendon of Bai's Lang.

The next morning, Bai Shilang went to school again and came to the river. The old man who had carried him across the river said, "I'll carry you just this once, and in the future I won't come to answer my errands, because you can't be emperor anymore." Bai Shilang was amazed, so he asked him for what? The old man then told the story of Master Zao's complaint to the Jade Emperor.

Bai's Lang was terrified, and he pleaded with the old man to give him a way out. The old man told him, next June 6, if there is a rainstorm, remember: "Close your mouth tightly, bite your teeth, although the dragon tendons were drawn, can no longer be a human master, can still leave a golden mouth and jade teeth. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said, "I'm going to have to do it.

Don't forget." Bai Shilang finally asked the old man who he was, so that he could remember his kindness, and the old man said, "I am the Jade Emperor's driving front, Taibai real person is also."

On the sixth day of the sixth month of the following year, the God of Thunder and the Mother of Lightning, on the order of the Jade Emperor, came to draw the dragon's tendon of Bai's Lang. On this day, Bai's Lang closed his mouth and clenched his teeth as Tai Bai Jin Xing had instructed him. After a sharp burst of thunder and lightning, Bai's Lang fell limp to the ground as he struggled to keep his golden mouth and teeth.

After Bai's Lang recovered physically, he hated Zao Wang, and thought, "I also have the spirit of the golden mouth and jade teeth, and when I say so, he found a gourd and wanted to put Zao Wang into the gourd, so that he could never come out. So he took the head of the gourd in his hand, and went to the idol of Zao Wang, and cried out, "Zao Wang Mao Shen, put it into the gourd." Then he saw a flash of fire, and he loaded the Zao King into it. Bai Shilang then covered the gourd plug.

When Bai's Lang saw that his golden mouth was really effective, he thought, "All these little hairy gods in the world are no good, and he vowed that he would put all these little hairy gods into the gourd, so that he could also get rid of the resentment of being cramped.

So he went all the way north from Jiangxi, loaded as he went, all the gods in Jiangnan, none of them escaped. Later, he heard that the old granny of Taishan had Taoism and was very spiritual, so he was ruthless again and loaded up the old granny of Taishan again.

As soon as Bai Shilang went to Taishan, the old granny pinpointed it, and she made some ingenious arrangements. Taishan in June, under the sun's exposure, hot and dry, the stream is so dry that there is not even a little water. Bai Shilang carried the big gourd he had loaded with gods on his back and trudged up the mountain path, his thirst and tongue dry, his throat on the verge of smoldering.

At that moment, suddenly an old, gray-haired grandmother, carrying a bucket of water, came down the mountain. When Bai Shilang saw the water, how could he not drink it? He saluted forward and asked the old mother to give him a mouthful of water to drink; the old mother refused to give him any because of the lack of water due to the heat of Mount Tai. He begged again and again, and the old mother said, "If you want to drink the water, you must kowtow to me and call me your mother three times before you can do so."

Bai Shilang really got down on the ground, kowtowed, shouted three times for his own mother, and got down on the bucket of water and drank his fill. Old Sister said, "Bai Shilang you drink my water, but do not forget that I am your mother ah!" Bai Shilang thanked again and again full of promise.

Drinking enough water, Bai Shilang had the strength to go up to the top of Mount Tai in one breath, to go to the Bixia Palace to pretend to be the old grandmother of Mount Tai. When he walked to the god seat, pulling the gourd plug to pretend to be a god, he heard Bixia Yuanjun on the god seat shouted, "Bai's Lang, ? Bai's Lang, you are ungrateful and bereft of conscience, take the gourd and load your mother."

Bai's Lang looked up and saw that the god seat was sitting on the very same old Sister who he had kowtowed to and asked his mother to give him water. If he really loaded her, wouldn't that be ungrateful? He was so angry and remorseful that he threw the god-loading gourd in his hand to the ground and broke it into pieces.

Those who were loaded with the god, then saw the light, released from the detention, climbed up, up and down to Taishan Mountain, fleeing in all directions. These fleeing gods, one by one on Taishan Mountain, so that, to this day, the gods of Taishan Mountain, only more than a full mile!