Benxi is located in the mountainous area of Liaodong, where the mountains are high and the forests are dense. It is an important water conservation place in eastern Liaoning, and there are many rivers. Benxi is indeed the "source of water". However, the origin of the name "Benxi" has another origin.

Benxi is named after Benxi Lake. Benxi Lake is located in the city, with a surface less than 1.5 square meters, which can be said to be the smallest lake in the world. Although the lake is small, it is also famous. It was once included in the Ten Scenes of Kanto. During the Tongzhi period in the Qing Dynasty, the book "Benxi Lake in Liaodong" written by Chu Shi Gao Shengxian was carved on the mouth of the lake, and the ancient temple of Cihang was built by the lake. It was built in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Sanskrit incense was once very popular.

The lake is surrounded by mountains and peaks, which are wide outside and narrow inside. It is very similar to a wine glass made of rhinoceros horn, so it is called "Cup Rhino Lake" and homophonic "Benxi Lake". Since then, the city has been named after the lake. In 1939, Benxi Lake City was formally established. After the founding of New China, the word "Lake" was removed and it was named Benxi City.

Benxi has a long history. Archaeological excavations at Miaohoushan show that human ancestors thrived here in the Paleolithic Age 411,111 to 511,111 years ago. This not only fills the gap of paleolithic human fossils in northeast China, but also provides valuable historical data for studying the distribution and transfer of human beings in Northeast Asia.

Legend of the Water Cave:

When the chaos first started, Benxi was originally a sea of Wang Yang, and Taizi River was a river flowing into the sea. There lived a couple of fish in the Prince River. The husband was a loach covered in patterns, and the wife was a slender eel. They gave birth to a son, who was covered in patterns like his father and slim like his mother. He was named Little Eel Loach.

Since childhood, the little eel has a big mind and needs to learn skills. It is necessary to do something important to change its family and honor its ancestors. According to the fish family in Shuiguo, if you want to change your family, you have to practice hard and jump the dragon gate. Jumping over Longmen can make Jackie Chan, and Jackie Chan can make waves, make clouds and make rain.

but where is the Longmen? It is said to be in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Henan Province. Therefore, if the fish in the Taizi River want to jump the Longmen, they have to enter the Benxi Sea and then the Liaohe River, the Bohai Sea and the Yellow River upstream.

But then the Prince River will end up flowing into Benxi Sea. No fish in the Taizi River and Benxi Sea can expect to jump the Longmen. The little eel thinks that as long as he can practice his skills, why do he have to jump the dragon gate? Why does it have to be Jackie Chan? So it went up and down the Taizi River to find teachers and friends, carefully cultivated, and studied hard for more than 3,111 years year after year.

God helps those who help themselves. It has finally developed a body that is invulnerable to fire and water. It has also developed the ability to walk on clouds and fog, and it will change. Its body can be large or small, and it can grow to 181 feet, flying in the sky, and it can be as small as half a needle, hiding in underwater cracks. What is even more surprising is that it can also spread clouds and rain, and it has the same ability as a dragon, just because it has not jumped over the dragon gate and cannot become a dragon.

This year, it's Qingming Festival again, and the little eel loach knows that there must be rain in Xia Geng in spring, so she decides to go to Buyun for a rain trip. When it whistled, many fish brothers and turtles came, and the eels cast spells, and the fog immediately rose.

its body suddenly became as thick as a jar mouth and more than a hundred feet long, and it danced in the sky in twists and turns, and the rain began to fall. His fish brothers and turtle brothers also made trouble together.

at this time, the world is worried that the land is dry and cracked because there is no snow in winter and no rain in spring. Getting this good rain really made everyone kowtow and burn incense everywhere. The eel is more proud when it sees it, and the more it sells its strength.

Besides, the Dragon King in Benxi Sea was sitting idly in his palace when it suddenly began to rain. It was really confusing for Zhang Er, a monk, and he was killing people to find out. Only when Prime Minister Turtle and the sea patrol hag clamored and broke into the temple, they said, "Report to Your Majesty the Dragon King, it began to rain in the Prince River!"

the dragon king was furious: "how dare a little eel be so bold? That's not bad!" So he quickly sent an order to find the eel and ask for guilt. He led his men to fly high into the sky. When he saw the little eel, he shouted, "Bold eel, how dare you throw clouds and rain at will? Come and die soon!"

The little eel said, "I am the rain of the World Bank. What's it to you, Dragon King?"

the dragon king said, "it's our son and grandson's business to rain. What should you do if you rain privately?"

The little eel said, "My eel has the ability to swim in the rain. I am welcome to swim in the rain!"

The Dragon King was furious. He gave the order and started a big war. The war between the Shui nationality and the Shui nationality in this water country is extraordinary. Both sides fought each other by making waves, spreading clouds and raining, killing each other. Therefore, the world was flooded with water, turning the banks of the Taizi River and Benxi into a Zeguo.

Benxi Sea is low in the northwest, and the sea water rushed out of a gap in the direction of Liaoyang in the northwest. There was a loud bang, and Hong Tao rushed down, overwhelming, and the Dragon Palace in Benxi Sea collapsed. Long Zi Long Sun and fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs all came down from Hong Tao, entered the Liaohe River and entered the Bohai Sea. Benxi Sea Dragon King also lost his armor and went to the Bohai Sea Dragon King to ask for help.

The Dragon King of Bohai Sea could not refuse, so he led some fish essence, turtle monster, shrimp spirit, crab mother, clam demon, snail mother, sea patrol hag, and little devil to fight eel, but eel came with victory, commanding and unstoppable. The Dragon King of Bohai Sea lost several battles in a row, so he had to hang up the war-free card, guard Haikou tightly, and prepare an emergency memorial to report it to the Jade Emperor.

This aquarium war caused Tao Huang in Taizi River and Liaohe River Basin to roll, houses collapsed and people and animals drifted. Many people fled to the top of the mountain with the young and the old, ate wild fruit roots to coax their bellies, and the kitchen gods provided by various families had no place to live, so they had to return to the Heavenly Palace to play books to the Jade Emperor.

It happened that the Jade Emperor was summoning his ministers in Lingxiao Hall to discuss whether he should set out to conquer eel essence. Some ministers talked about it, and some said that they shouldn't start. The Benxi Sea has been dried up and can't be restored to its original state. Why bother the people and disturb the world? Some scripts said that it would be a joke to let it go, and that the Dragon King and the Jade Emperor could not control a little eel and fish essence, which really lost the majesty of the Dragon Palace and heaven.

This made the Jade Emperor indecisive. Just as the Kitchen God returned to the Heavenly Palace in advance to complain, he cursed the eel for its fine sin. The Jade Emperor immediately issued a decree, ordering Erlang God to subdue the eel and loach essence. On the orders of Erlang God, he led his troops down to earth with a barking dog, and met the eel loach over Liaodong, laying out the battlefield.

Although Erlang's three-pointed and two-edged gun is elusive, the eight mouths of the eel must be turned into eight Strafe, which, like eight dragons, not only entangled his gun, but also lashed at his head and body.

Erlang God secretly ordered the barking dog to turn behind the eel to help. Unexpectedly, the eel had been on guard, and it pretended not to know. When the barking dog just approached the mouth, it swung its tail, causing the barking dog to bark and scream, and fell to the ground. Erlang God was surprised and lost his mind. Strafe of the eel pulled off his helmet and scared him to flee back to the worse gate.

It's just that the helmet rolled like a wheel in the clouds until it rolled into Fengcheng County, and it fell between Jiguan Mountain and Huanghuadianzi, becoming a high mountain, so people called it "Hat Helmet Mountain".

When the Jade Emperor saw that Erlang God had come back from a crushing defeat, Long Yan was furious, so he made a personal expedition. The four heavenly kings were appointed as pioneers, and the heavenly generals, such as Eight donkey kong, Twenty-eight Nights, Thirty-six plough, and Seventy-two Earthworms, surrounded the eel spirits from all directions, and used their magic powers to offer magic weapons, such as tying fairy ropes, killing fairy swords, whipping gods, scattering plague flags, ecstasy umbrellas and dry Kun circles. Even the pagoda of King Li Tian of Tota was sacrificed.

But they were all blocked by the eight mouths of the eel, so they couldn't fall down in mid-air and flew up and down. In this way, we fought for three days and nights. The eel thought that it was inevitable to be fooled if they were entangled in many people, so it fell from the air at once. When its tail touched the river, it snapped into a half-needle-sized eel calf and fell into the river and got into a crack in the rock.

The Jade Emperor sent clairvoyance and clairvoyance to look for it. As a result, he found no trace, so he had to move his division and return to the Heavenly Palace.

The Jade Emperor sat on the embroidered pier in Lingxiao Hall and just caught his breath, but Venus, too white, walked up the golden steps with crutches, prostrated herself before the imperial court, and shouted, "Tell your Majesty, I have a way to subdue the eel and loach essence."

"Ah, old Aiqing, what's the clever plan? Come quickly! "

Taibai Jinxing slowly pulled out a gold needle from his sleeve and held it in his palm. He said, "Report to your majesty, this is the treasure of the old Tianhe fish man. It's called the most precious gold needle. It's easy to subdue eel and loach essence with it!"

"Good, then I will send you to subdue it!"

Taibai Jinxing said, "Your Majesty, that eel has been walking for more than 3,111 years, and it is very aura. If we go to the celestial fairy class, it will recognize it at a glance and will never take the bait. I ask your majesty to allow the old minister to visit an ordinary man in the lower world and let him go there. " The Jade Emperor said, "Good, good! Go quickly. "

"follow the instructions!" Taibai Venus kowtowed to the temple and hurried out of the worse gate with auspicious clouds. When I arrived in Liaodong, the clouds fell and I became an old man wandering around. In a place where there was no water, I saw a young man in his twenties wearing a white Dai Xiao, kneeling in front of a grave and burning paper and crying.

Taibai Venus asked, "Who are you in this grave?"

The young man wiped his tears and said, "It's my father and mother. It was drowned by the flood. "

Taibai Jinxing said, "That's the flood of eel essence. You can get rid of this eel essence and avenge your parents!"

The young man looked at the Taibai Venus and said, "Heavenly soldiers and generals can't subdue it. Who can subdue it, ordinary people?"

Taibai Venus said, "I'll give you a treasure, and it will be subdued."

Taibai Jinxing said and took out the most precious gold needle. "You tie it with a red rope. At midnight, when the stars are all up, go to the bank of Taizi River, face the river, hold it in your right hand, pinch the tactic with your left hand, and say,' Eel, eel, don't worry, it's a gold needle, no bait and no hook'. Read it three times in a row, and when you loosen your hand, you can catch it, but don't take off the hook, put it down on the spot, grab three handfuls of soil, turn around and run, and run for a hundred steps before you look back. In three days, you can take off the hook and stick three needles into its head, then you can stick it to death, and this precious gold needle will be yours. This is a priceless treasure. If you need something, just take it out, hold it with your right index finger and thumb, pinch the tactic with your left hand, close your eyes, and say the phrase' Golden hook, golden hook, share my worries, I want XXX, go and seek it'. Then when you shake your right hand, it will automatically become a hook, and what you want will hang on the hook. "

The young man took the lily and saw that the old man had disappeared into the breeze. The young man was surprised and surprised, knowing that he had met a fairy. ?

when he got home, he found a silk rope and tied the golden lily. At midnight, he came to the bank of the Prince River where the waves were rolling. He taught by Taibai Venus and recited the formula. Sure enough, he caught a small eel fish. He quickly put it on the ground, grabbed three handfuls of sand and buried it. He turned and ran. He heard a long whistle behind him and a series of heavy thunder.

when he ran out of the hundred paces and looked back, he saw a high mountain rising from the fog.

On the third day, the young man came to inspect carefully. When he walked to the high mountain, he saw that the golden needle turned into a gold hook and hooked it in the mouth of the eel. The eel has become very big, and I don't know how long it is. Because it was pressed in the mountains, it seems to grow with the rocks. I saw that it was full of tears. When he told the story, the young man's heart softened, so he decided to spare the eel from dying.

Since then, the eel has used those eight mouthfuls to do good deeds for people. When someone falls into the water, it will be rescued with a long beard; When a woodcutter falls down a cliff, it gently holds him with a long beard; When the summer floods, it becomes busier, saving people and fishing around the clock.

year after year, it has lost four of its eight beards, but it still doesn't stop, and continues to do good deeds and help people. On this day, when the sun was about to set, suddenly, the only mouth of the eel fell off, and the gold hook hooked in its mouth suddenly straightened, and then it fell off, and it was about to fall into the river. It quickly grabbed the golden needle with a probe.

At this moment, it suddenly felt its body loose and separated from the rock. Looking back, I found that my body was covered with scales, and it had become a dragon, leaving a big hole on the cliff.

It moves its body happily, and goes down the river with a treasure in its mouth. Because it has become a dragon, it has successfully entered the Liaohe River, the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea? From then on, the precious gold needle fell into the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea and was renamed as "Dinghai Shenzhen".

Later, it was borrowed by the Monkey King as a weapon, also called "Ruyi Golden Hoop". However, the Monkey King didn't get all the tips of it, so he could only change from big to small, or he read the formula of "golden hook, golden hook, share my worries for me, I want to catch the demon, go and seek it", and he can hook the monster with a flash of a hook, and it will be much smoother to go to the West to learn from the scriptures.

It was a long time before Xie Jia found that the cave was winding for miles, with countless beautiful flowers on both sides and the top of the cave, like figures, villages and mountains and rivers. Actually, that's the skin taken off by an eel. Because the bottom of the cave is advection green water, people call it Xiejiaweizi Water Cave, which is today's "Benxi Water Cave" or "Jiuqu Yinhe Cave".

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Features of Benxi Water Cave:

Benxi Water Cave is a large water-filled cave formed millions of years ago. The entrance seat is located in the south and north, and the entrance is 16 meters high and 25 meters wide, which is in a half-moon shape. The upper end is engraved with the four characters of "Benxi Water Cave" written by Bo Yibo. The entrance of Neifenshui Cave and Drought Cave is 21 meters high and 21 meters wide respectively, which is magnificent.

To the right of the hall, there is a dry cave with a length of 311 meters, which is strewn at random. There are holes in the cave, which are tortuous and blurred, and each has its own cave. The stalactites at the top of the cave and on the rock wall develop in groups along the cracks, showing all kinds of objects, which are natural and interesting, just like the Dragon Palace Wonderland. Ancient wells, Longtan, Baibuchi and many other landscapes make tourists daydream and linger.

at the end of the cave is a clear pool, which is bottomless, and the water vapor strikes, making people feel sad and cold.

On the front of the hall, there is the pier leading to the water cave. The water surface of more than 1,111 square meters is like a quiet and unique "harbor". Within the reach of the lights, the cruise ships in the water and the stone scenery in the cave are reflected in it, making people feel like entering a fairyland.

step down from the revetment stone steps, get on the boat from the dock through the promenade, and you can swim in the water tunnel. The total length of the water tunnel is 5,811 meters, and now it has been developed to 2,811 meters, with an area of 36,111 square meters and a space of more than 411,111 cubic meters. The widest part is 38 meters high and 71 meters wide.

There is more than 1,111 square meters of water in front of the hall. There is a dock where 41 cruise ships can be parked at the same time, and boating can be used to swim in the water cave, enjoying the size, length and depth of the water cave and the beauty of the waterfall. Then, you have to marvel: "There are thousands of wonderful peaks of the clock breast, and there are thousands of poems and paintings with clear water in a canoe. Zhong Xiu should only be in the fairyland, and it is the only cave in the world.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Benxi Water Cave