The Digging-tailed Dragon Worships the Mountain
Speaking of Fengjian, in ancient times there was a student who was studying in a private school. He picked up an unusually shaped insect on the edge of a field on the way to school. After returning to the private school, he quietly Put it in a drawer and bring a rice ball from home every day to feed it.
The little bug is taken care of and grows up. The rice balls fed to the children every day were not enough, so they had to wait until night to go out to look for food. The insects eat so much that people near the school often have their livestock and crops stolen, but they don't know why.
The neighboring families discussed it together and decided to send a few watchmen to keep watch and investigate. Late at night, several watchmen noticed a cloud flying from the sky, and the cloud slowly fell in the courtyard of the private school. They felt strange, so they quietly followed the private school, opened the door, and looked inside, but found nothing.
The next morning, the private school teacher checked the drawers one by one and found a strange insect with shiny scales coiled in a student's drawer, which looked very much like a legendary dragon. The school teacher was shocked and feared that it was a sacred object and did not dare to offend it. So he asked the students about the origin of the strange insect and asked the students to put it back into the field immediately.
The students were forced by the teacher's orders, so they had to carry the bug to the field, caressing the bug, and reluctantly parted. Suddenly, the student had the idea of ??meeting the insect in the future, so he took out a knife and cut off a bit of the insect's tail as a mark. As soon as he let go, the little insect immediately jumped into the air, and his body suddenly enlarged and turned into a giant dragon. He nodded goodbye to the child, turned around and flew towards the sky. In an instant, the sky was filled with wind and clouds, and the dragon was nowhere to be found.
It is said that dragons are in the sky. Because this dragon digs its tail, it cannot go to heaven, so it has to hide in the mountains and swamps. Every time it travels, it will be accompanied by violent storms, destroying houses and breaking trees. Injuring passers-by. Every year in April and May, whenever there is such weather, people say it is a tail-digging dragon worshiping the mountain.
But heavy storms never harm Fengjian. Legend has it that one of the ancestors enshrined in an ancestral hall here was Qiujiang Ancestor (surnamed Liang, born in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty), and he was the student who raised the dragon. During the Qingming Festival every year, a thick layer of leaves is sometimes spread in front of the sacred table in the ancestral hall, much like a worship mat. Sometimes a large lantern outside the door is hung on the tree in front of the court. People say that it is a dragon that comes to worship. Sacrificed to repay the kindness of raising him.
Scholar Couplet Fighting Spirits
In Xingtan Village, families with the surnames Huang, Su and Luo have lived since ancient times. The two surnames Su and Luo are located in the east of the village, and they usually work together to do things together. The surname Huang is located at the end of the village and has little contact with the people at the head of the village. One day, scholars with three surnames gathered in a wine shop to drink and have fun. Someone suggested that they should recite poems and write poems to promote their elegance. Su Luo and Su Luo had long wanted to blame the person named Huang, so they colluded together and made a first couplet, and asked the person named Huang to make a second couplet. The first couplet of Luo Liangxiucai read: "Su Luo made a jingle sound, which scared the yellow dog and howled." When Huang Xiucai heard this, he knew that it was an excuse. After thinking about it for a while, he was not to be outdone, and said slowly and thoughtfully Said: "The yellow tiger came down the mountain so bravely, it smashed Su Luo with a bang bang sound." When the two scholars of Su Luo heard this, they were speechless. From then on, the Su and Luo surnames no longer dared to bully the people surnamed Huang.
Maning's "Fairy Footprints"
In ancient times, Maning did not distinguish between east Maning and west Maning. Maning has always been known as a "magical geomantic treasure land", especially Maning Mountain, which is a famous scenic spot. A local folk proverb describes it as "a dragon's head, a moon horn above, a horse's nose and a golden ox below, and a crucian carp on the left." Beach, Baihua Rock on the right, three villages, six cities and eighteen towns, nine wells and thirteen pits." It can be seen that there were many places of interest and the beauty of the scenery at that time. According to local legend, there are ninety-nine hills in Maning Mountain, and these hills were moved one by one from far away places by an immortal overnight. She had one foot on a hilltop in Jun'an and the other on Mount Maning. That night it happened to be moved from distant hills one by one and placed on the land of Maning. It has been moved to ninety-nine hills. Just as he moved to the 100th hill, which was the last hill, it was almost dawn and he was exhausted and sleepy. Suddenly a rooster crowed loudly. The immortal was frightened in his sleep. He loosened his hands and the hilltop fell to a certain place in Jun'an. Therefore, Ma Ning only had ninety-nine hilltops. Legend has it that if there is a person on the top of a mountain, you can get a prize, so Ma Ning and most of his people will be awarded Jinshi.
Let me tell the benevolent people in Ruxiang that the eighth day of the fifth lunar month is the birthday of the Dragon Mother. The Dragon Mother will come on that day and spread her kindness. I hope everyone will accept it sincerely. So, on the eighth day of May, dragon boats from all over the country came to celebrate the birthday of the Dragon Mother, and the newly built dragon boats also came to "put the finishing touch". This custom has been passed down to this day. After liberation, local villagers renamed this day "Water Village Festival".
Ganzhutan Dragon Temple
Ganzhutan is a main waterway in Shunde. One end leads to Guangzhou and the other end connects to the Xijiang River. The mouth of the beach is narrow and densely covered with reefs. When the floods come every year, the floodwaters gather at the mouth of the beach and form a waterfall that pours down the beach like thousands of horses galloping and thundering in the ears. It is very dangerous for ships to travel. If you are not careful, you will hit the rocks and sink. In the past, the embankments on both sides of the beach were thin, and successive officials and township officials ignored the construction of embankments and dams. When the embankments collapsed and floods occurred, the people on both sides of the river were left homeless. Because they lost confidence in the government's construction of the dam, the villagers had no choice but to build various temples on both sides of the river bank to seek help from the gods for protection.
The pious heart of the people in the world finally moved the gods. At midnight one day, many people saw two bright lights flashing on Ganzhu Beach, with the rushing beach water rushing straight towards the mouth of the beach. When the fishermen saw this scene, they were shocked and knelt down to worship. A giant monster that was long, covered in scales and looked like a python rushed to the beach and disappeared in an instant. A few days later, a villager picked up some scales as big as a bowl at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain, not far from the beach entrance. At that time, Xiangshan was a grazing place for villagers, and they often lost their cattle. The people speculated that the lost cow must have been eaten by the snake demon that appeared that night. People were frightened for a while, so they built a temple at the foot of Elephant Mountain and named it the "Demon-Fu Temple".
One night in the middle of the night, a rainbow appeared over the top of the temple, and the entire area within a radius of twenty to thirty miles was illuminated like daylight. Villagers came out to watch it. Suddenly there was a burst of lightning and thunder, strong winds and rain, and a long dragon rushed into the sky. Soon everything calmed down again. As a result, the villagers gradually believed that what appeared that night was not a monster, but a divine dragon, so they changed the name of the original "Devil Temple" to "Dragon Temple".
Oddly enough, since then, on both sides of Ganzhutan, except for the occasional loss of cattle, no livestock has been stolen, floods have also reduced, and the people have lived a long and stable life.