At that time, there was a giant named Kuafu. Usually, he always has two long snakes in his ears and a long mahogany cane in his hand.
One day, he suddenly had a whimsical idea and wanted to race with the sun.
From sunrise, he climbed mountains, crossed rivers and waded until the sun set.
As soon as Kuafu saw the sun set, he tried to catch up, but before he reached the sun, he was scorched by the blazing fire, and the pain was unbearable.
I had to turn around and run to the Weihe River of the Yellow River to drink water. Although the river has been drained, I can't quench my thirst. Finally, I died of thirst at the foot of the Qinling Mountains, and his mahogany crutch turned into a big peach forest winding for dozens of kilometers.
Whenever peach blossoms are in full bloom in spring, butterflies and bees fly here, and the scenery is pleasant, so people call it "Peach Forest".
Legend has it that at the end of Kaiyuan (AD 74 1 year), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty just sat down in the early morning, and Tian Tongxiu of Chen Jun made a prelude: "Report to your Majesty, I had a dream last night, dreaming that the purple air was lingering on the door of Hanguguan in Taolin County (now lingbao city), and Emperor Xuanyuan (Lao Zi) was floating in it. I was about to come forward to worship, but I listened to his old man's way.
"Say that finish and disappear, I don't understand its meaning, please play the holy one." Xuanzong was overjoyed after hearing this, and immediately sent someone to Hanguguan to look for the amulet.
Sure enough, an "amulet"-a piece of wood made of mahogany with the word "ten wood" written on it in vermilion was dug up in the west of Guan Yin's former residence in Hangu. Everyone didn't understand its meaning, so they had to send this "amulet" to Chang 'an (now Xi City, Shaanxi Province) and submit it to Xuanzong for reading.
Xuanzong looked left and right with the amulet, but he couldn't understand it at all. The ministers couldn't see anything.
Tian Tongxiu, who was still good at following the trend, tried to say, "I don't know if my opinion is right, and I dare not talk nonsense." "Ai Qing found that' Ci Fu' is meritorious, but it is not important." "I think these words together seem to be the word" mulberry "in ancient books.
Three crosses, plus a wooden character, take the wood apart and it is a cross, and a character is 48. "So on say, ministers have to think about the exam.
"Forty-eight, forty-eight, Emperor Xuanyuan blessed my emperor's forty-eight years of prosperity." A minister shouted happily.
Everyone has also echoed, saying that this is an epiphany of Emperor Xuanyuan and sent a "amulet", which is gratifying.
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was naturally very happy and thought it was a gift from Laozi, so he changed the year number from "Kaiyuan" to "Tianbao".
Taolin County, where the "verve" was discovered, was changed to Lingbao County.