There is a stonemason named Chen Long by the lake, and everyone calls him Brother Long. He was sincere, hardworking and brave, and Ling Bo, the fairy, fell in love with Brother Long. In the lake pond, they tied knots with beads. Fairy Ling Bo is in charge of the water source, and the nine lakes are in good weather every year; Brother Long and the villagers worked hard, and the nine lakes and grains were abundant, making them a fairyland on earth.
I don't want to. The happiness and beauty of this world angered the demon dragon, which sprayed poison in its mouth and burned the pastoral village. In order to defend her home, the fairy Ling Bo fought with the pipa. Brother Long swallowed the treasure and became a dragon, fighting against the demon dragon. Finally, the demon dragon failed and fled to the sky, complaining to the heavenly queen.
The heavenly queen listened to the slanderers and sent heavenly soldiers to punish the fairy Ling Bo and Brother Long. In a blink of an eye, Nanxiang was dark, and the sky moved round the mountain to suppress the nine lakes. Since then, the water source has been cut off and the spring water has dried up. Brother Long was crushed under the round mountain. In the clouds, Ling Bo, the fairy who was caught back to heaven, looked at the destroyed home and lonely brother Long, held her head high and spat out a clear spring. Reluctantly, she took out her silver hairpin and threw it to the miserable south township. The silver hairpin fell beside the clear spring at the foot of the round mountain and became a graceful and fragrant daffodil. Nowadays, at the end of every year, every household in Jiuhu will put a few pots of daffodils at home to express their gratitude to Brother Long and Fairy Lingbo.
Another legend
On the banks of the Jiulong River in the southwest of Zhangzhou City, a round mountain stands tall. Seen from the front and back, this round mountain has twelve sides and different scenery. As the saying goes: "A mountain has twelve sides, and all four sides are treasures." Here, it is said that there is a slope in the northeast of the round mountain, surrounded by lush forests, shaped like a pipa, and this place is called Pipaban. A clear spring gushed from Sakamoto, nourishing the countryside below. This is a well-known middle-aged daffodil producing area. However, do you know the origin of daffodils? It's a little weird to say.
According to legend, during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Zhang Guanghui who was honest and clean and worked as a small official in Jixian County, Henan Province. In his career as an official, he saw through the darkness and corruption of officialdom, so he resigned as a bosom friend and returned to his hometown. His hometown is under the pipa ban in Yuanshan, South Township, Zhangzhou. On this day, he took a boat through the vast Dongting Lake, leaned leisurely on the side of the boat, enjoyed the lakes and mountains, and overlooked the blue sky, blue lake and green distant mountains, which made him relaxed and happy, forgot all the insults and unconsciously immersed himself in a quiet dream. In this trance, he saw a beautiful fairy, wearing golden feathers and white jade skirt socks, standing on an ivory carved bow with a green silk sail behind her, flying in the wind and waves. He stood up in surprise, rubbed his eyes and stared at the miracle. At this moment, the fairy and the fairy boat disappeared. I saw a flower floating on the silver lake, shooting an arrow among the green leaves. The white umbel and a dozen stamens are still in bud, but a small white flower rises at the top, and the white petals are crystal clear, making a six-sided jade plate. Flower heart held up a golden glass. Handsome and lovely, very cute.
Zhang Guanghui cherished this unknown flower so much that he reached out and tried to pick it up from the water. Who knows that this fairy flower is very clever, but it leaves the ship's rail leisurely and floats to the middle of the lake. Zhang Guanghui was very depressed and looked at the lake with ecstasy. At this time, this playful fairy flower quietly approached the ship's rail, but always kept a distance and swam away with the ship. Zhang Guanghui tried to catch her several times, but failed to catch her. She was in a hurry, but she was helpless. Slowly, his mood calmed down, and he thought regretfully: since she is a water fairy, she should not be treated coldly, but must be treated politely! So he shook his clothes in awe, respectfully lit three sticks of incense and silently prayed to the water fairy:
Ling Boxian is a beautiful country,
Where do you want to swim on the lake?
Would you like to go to the south with me,
Pipaban is a fairy town!
Strange to say, this fairy flower seems to know Zhang Guanghui's mind very well. After hesitating on the water waves for a while, it came to the side of the ship happily. Zhang Guanghui was overjoyed. He quickly found a jade-colored fine porcelain basin, made a clear lake, and washed it again and again. It was very bright and clean. Then he piously held the porcelain basin in his hand, lifted the bulb of the fairy flower out of the lake and supported it on the net in the cabin. I saw this fairy flower clean and spotless; The fragrance is fragrant and refreshing, and Ling Bo dances to fill the room with light. Zhang Guanghui was filled with joy, staring at the fairy flower, admiring her, worshiping her, singing poems, eulogizing the water fairy, and pouring out his admiration. In a few days, he wrote nearly a hundred poems. One of them wrote:
Exquisite and elegant,
It's cold, the bones are cold, and it's hard to kiss.
Recite Chen Sifu late at night,
Just like Ling Bo, socks have less dust.
This fairy flower really accompanied Zhang Guanghui back to his hometown-Pipaban, Nanxiang, Zhangzhou, Fujian. The day I got home happened to be New Year's Eve. According to the custom of Zhangzhou, on New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to "surround the stove" for the Spring Festival. Zhang Guanghui respectfully and solemnly put the flowerpot in the center of the hall confession, introduced the scene of his exploration with Ling Boxian in Dongting Lake to his family, and told his daughter to tie the flower base with red silk thread, just like tying a red rope to her hair flap, which made the fairy flowers more beautiful and moving. All the men, women and children in the family cherish this fairy flower.
On New Year's Eve, just as Zhang Guanghui and his family were sitting around the fire, they raised their glasses to celebrate the good luck in the New Year. Suddenly, the room became dazzling, colorful and fragrant. It turns out that more than a dozen fairy flowers in bud bloom at the same time, and one after another, they hold up the golden lanterns of the tracts, wishing people a happy New Year and a happy family. When Zhang Guanghui's family saw this scene, they all raised their glasses gratefully, wishing the fairy flowers live in spring forever and the fairy seeds stay in the world forever.
After the Spring Festival, Zhang Guanghui carefully planted the bulbs of fairy flowers in the garden in front of her door, and irrigated them with the fairy spring water in the spring water on Pipaban every day. After several years of hard work, the garden under Pipa Sakaguchi is full of fairy flowers. Because this kind of fairy flower is the embodiment of Ling Boxian on Dongting Lake, jade bone, an ice muscle, is spotless, so it is named "Narcissus".
Since then, every Spring Festival, the Zhang family will present several pots of daffodils to relatives and close friends. I also attached a poem to congratulate the Spring Festival. Poetry cloud:
Horseshoe Crab Cave Peak in Yuanshan, Zhang Jun,
Flowers contain fairy dew fragrance;
Keywords tracts, golden lamps, fairy toast,
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