1. Once upon a time there was a Mr. Xin who owned a tavern. One day, a stout, but raggedly dressed customer walked in, and he asked Mr. Xin calmly: Can I have a glass of wine to drink? Mr. Xin saw that he had an extraordinary temperament, did not dare to be slow, and served a large glass of wine. In this way, for half a year, this guest always came to ask for a drink, and Mr. Xin never showed any sign of boredom.
One day, the guest came again and said to Mr. Xin, "I owe you a lot of wine, and I have no money to pay you back. So he took out a piece of orange peel from his basket and drew a yellow crane on the wall with it. Then he sat down and beat his hands to the beat while singing a song, and the crane on the wall danced with his beat! The other guests in the hotel saw this marvelous sight.
The other guests in the hotel saw this marvelous sight and paid to see it. After more than a decade, Mr. Xin made a fortune from the dancing cranes. One day, the ragged guest came to the hotel again, and Mr. Xin rushed forward to thank him, "Sir, please let me support you, you can live however you want. The guest smiled and replied: Where did I come for this?
He suddenly took out a flute from his bosom and played a few tunes, and in a short while, a white cloud floated down from the sky, and the yellow crane in the painting flew over; so the guest straddled the back of the crane and flew away to the sky on the white cloud. Later, to commemorate the guest, Mr. Xin built a building and named it the Yellow Crane Tower.
2. In 727 A.D., the fifteenth year of Emperor Tang Xuanzong's reign, the young Li Bai came to Anlu in Hubei Province, where he met Meng Haoran. Meng Haoran was 12 years older than Li Bai, and was already a famous poet, while Li Bai was just a novice in the literary world. Meng Haoran's straightforward and free personality, his unique and quiet poetic style, and his life of wandering in the mountains and waters were all admired by Li Bai.
The two men met at first sight and soon became close friends, and from then on they often traveled back and forth, accompanied by poetry and wine. Later, Meng Haoran had to go to Guangling, Li Bai asked someone to bring a letter, and he met in Jiangxia, which is now the Wuchang area, and said goodbye at the Yellow Crane Tower. Li Bai looked at his friend's departure figure, imagining the future of each of the two, a moment really a thousand thoughts which.
So he wrote this song, "Sending Meng Haoran to Guangling": "The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and went down to Yangzhou in March," he said. The lonely sails and distant shadows of the blue sky end, but the Yangtze River flows between the skies. In this poem, Li Bai expresses his reluctance to part with his friend by describing the scenery. The parting of Li Bai and Meng Haoran at the Yellow Crane Tower seems to foreshadow their transition from seclusion to service.
The beginning of the journey from immortality to mortality. Unfortunately, both of their worldly travels were not smooth, but fortunately, both of them blossomed in the twists and turns of the great light. Meng Haoran finally returned to his roots and became a true hermit after the setbacks of his career.
3. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a couple in this area who ran a small tavern, attracting small citizens who often came here to drink and enjoy themselves. One day, the boss's wife found a beggar who was not clothed, he only drank and did not buy food. The boss's wife felt that this could not earn him much money, so she and her husband agreed on a scheme, when the beggar came back to drink again, he was blown away with kind words.
The next day, the beggar came again. The boss's wife then said to him, "Good morning, sir. You are our old patron, and you come every day to drink but not to buy food for some reason. Because you came at the wrong time, if from tomorrow onwards, you are the first to arrive and drink the first bowl of wine of the day in our store, then the wine and food will be complete. But if the other guests arrive first, you will be asked not to enter the hotel again."
The beggar gladly accepted the boss's idea. As soon as the hotel opened the next day, the beggar was indeed the first to arrive first, and the boss's wife had to give him wine and food. The third day and so on, the fourth day, the fifth day is also so. The boss's wife then had a plan, open the door early, the beggar is still the first results; open the door late, he is still the first; not open the door he does not come. And so it was for three years and three months.
One day, the boss's wife suddenly felt that the beggar is not ordinary people. So and her husband both kneel in front of the beggar, repentance thought. The beggar said, "You have finally come to your senses!" It turned out that he was Lu Dongbin. From then on, the story of Lu Dongbin's drinking spread. He felt that he should not drink for nothing, so he painted a yellow crane on the wall in the hotel, and before he finished, the crane came to life.
The drinkers were amazed at the sight, and the story spread. So, more and more people came to see the crane. The owner's wife put curtains on all the windows and doors so that people outside could not see the cranes. She also put up a sign that said, "Anyone who comes to see the cranes must buy three cups of wine." After three years and three months, the hotel made a fortune because people came to see the cranes.
The boss's wife said to Lu Dongbin, "You have given me too much blessing, but if I use the money I made to build a building and ask you to paint more cranes, won't I make more money?" Lu Dongbin thought the boss's wife was really insatiable, but still agreed to build a building. After the building was completed, on the day of the opening ceremony, Lu Dongbin beckoned to the yellow crane on the wall, and the crane spread its wings and flew away.
4, according to legend, in the Three Kingdoms period, there is a sister surnamed Xin, in the riverside opened a tavern, business is not good or bad, because of the Xin sister hospitality, the real thing, relying on the old neighborhood to take care of the business, but also able to support the family. One day, there was a middle-aged man in front of the store, who was dressed in a personalized, avant-garde style, which, to put it another way, was a beggar.
Opening to find Xin sister to drink a bowl of wine, Xin sister Bodhisattva heart, pity his miserable appearance of the image, to give him a big bowl, the results of this buddy every day to drink wine, Xin sister is not rich, but home brewing, is not worth a few cents, every day to give not wrong. This is the way the whole year, this day the middle-aged uncle said to Xin big sister: "drink your year of wine, can not drink in vain.
Give you a gift." After saying this, he took out a piece of orange peel from the broken jacket, and painted a crane on the wall of the hotel, an orange-colored crane, but it was very vivid and vivid, and Xin was about to cry, but not with such a pitiful, just painted the wall ah, the stucco maker's wages have not yet been paid, I'm the one who is inviting the others to mess with me.
One day, a few guests drank too much, played drunk, hit the chopsticks and sang - that is, knocking chopsticks while singing blindly, and the result was that the yellow cranes on the wall danced to the beat, which was too shocking, too shocking to sweat, which is simply a miracle. The story spread, and soon everyone in a hundred miles knew about it, and many people came to enjoy it every day, and some intellectuals and bricklayers stayed there every day.
Xin big sister's business is naturally doing better and better, bigger and bigger, after ten years of development, when the small hotel has become a big restaurant. This day the beggar came again, Xin big sister grateful, pulling his hand and said: "Big brother, discuss a thing, labor your big drive, can this three-story restaurant walls are painted full of cranes? This decade everyone is tired of watching the solo dance.
They say they want to see a square dance, and it would be nice to have a large group exercise." This uncle's face changed greatly, quickly took out a flute from his tattered jacket and began to play a tune, and in no time, a piece of colorful clouds descended from the sky, and the yellow cranes on the wall flew down, and the middle-aged man sat on the back of the crane, and flew off into the sky, surrounded by colorful clouds.
Sister Xin in order to commemorate this game of the world's slovenly immortal, the ten years to earn money out of the river in a small hill called "yellow bull's-eye", repair a building, named "Xin's building", and later changed to The "Yellow Crane Tower", even "Huangguoji" also incidentally called "Huangheji".
5. A long time ago, a poor old woman set up a small tea stall on Snake Mountain in Wuhan. The old lady was kind-hearted, and poor people from near and far were willing to come to her tea stall to rest their feet and drink tea. One morning, the old woman saw a Taoist priest fainted on the ground, she quickly picked him up and wiped his face. When the Taoist priest woke up, the old woman invited him to drink tea. The Taoist priest said he hadn't eaten for three days, so he didn't have any money for tea!
The old woman then made tea and paid for two cakes for the Taoist priest to eat. After eating the cakes and drinking the tea, the Taoist priest stood up and said with a smile, "Good intentions will be rewarded." Said with a finger, only to see a flash of golden light, the old woman rubbed her eyes to see, the small tea stall into a large tea house. The Taoist priest drew a yellow crane on the wall and said, "If you clap three times, it will come down and dance." After saying that, he disappeared.
The old woman's tea stall became a tea house, and everyone was happy to drink tea and watch the crane dance. The tea stall's business got better and better. The news that Whooping Crane could dance reached the ears of a landlord, who thought: If we get Whooping Crane, we will be very rich! One day, the landlord brought people to the tea house and shouted, "I lost my dancing Whooping Crane, I heard it is here, give it back to me!"
The old woman pointed to the wall and said, "If you have the ability to take it away!" The rich man took a look at it, and it turned out to be a mural. The rich man slipped away with a red face and lowered his head, inviting laughter from the teahouse full of people. The county magistrate heard about this, he wanted to offer the crane to the emperor, so that he could be promoted and become rich. The county master brought people to the teahouse, everyone is happy to enjoy the yellow crane dance. As soon as the county eunuch saw the yellow crane.
Don't care about the dignity of being an official, straight towards the yellow crane pounced. The yellow crane was not waiting for the master to get close, the yellow crane shook his wings and flew back to the wall. He was so angry that he went crazy and ordered, "Move the wall back to the palace!" The county magistrate burned incense and made offerings at the county office, and bowed and kowtowed. But Huanghe still didn't move a muscle.
The county magistrate was so angry that he asked people to paint the cover, and the oil was brushed several times, and the crane appeared on the wall as usual. The magistrate also asked people to use fire, big live burned for a long time, the yellow crane is still intact as before. Suddenly, the yellow crane winking from the wall to fly down, the county master was overjoyed, and rushed to hold the legs of the yellow crane. The yellow crane flew up, flew up to the sky. The magistrate followed it into mid-air, and his ocelot was blown off by the wind.
Flying and flying, the county magistrate looked down and saw that the yellow crane was flying over the choppy Yangtze River. The county magistrate was terrified, his whole body trembled, and once he let go, he fell from mid-air into the Yangtze River and drowned. The crane flew back to the teahouse, and the old woman sat on the crane and flew away. Later, people built the Yellow Crane Tower on the place of this teahouse. Now it is in a new posture, standing on the Yangtze River.