Yiwu: a place named after a bird

According to legend, during the Qin Dynasty, there was a piece of fertile land in the territory of Yuyue, 150 kilometers west of the East China Sea, where the winds and rains were favorable and the grains were plentiful. The people should have been well fed and clothed and lived in peace and contentment, but due to the brutal exploitation of the local wealthy lords, many peasants lost their land and homes, became serfs, or wandered and begged, and lived in abject misery.

There was a father and son surnamed Yan, the father's name was Yan Feng and the son's name was Yan Wu. The two men traveled south from Shandong to escape the chaos. They began working for a wealthy family, but when the wealthy man saw that Yan Feng was old and sick and had nothing left to squeeze out of him, he threw them out of the house. Yan Wu and his father had to beg for a living.

Because of the constant lack of food, they were often starved to the point of dizziness, especially their elderly father, who was already seriously ill. Fortunately, Yan Wu was a filial son and served his father very well.

On one occasion, Yen Wu found a small rocky cave on his way to beg, which was small in size but warm in winter and cool in summer. Yan Wu was overjoyed, he cleaned up the rocky cave, moved a few large clean stones, the big one as a bed, the small one as a stool. From then on, father and son settled down in the cave.

The summer, the rock cave mosquitoes gradually more and more, how to let the sick father not mosquito infestation sleep peacefully? The smart and filial Yan Wu has its own way. Every evening, Yan Wu always first father back to the cave outside the cool, and then he returned to the cave, naked lying down, those big and ruthless mosquitoes buzzing around the Yan Wu pinch bombardment 攠. After a few hours, and so the mosquitoes are satisfied with the full meal pinch retreat 攠, Yan Wu only got up to carry his father back to sleep in the cave. Sometimes the father can not help but ask: pinch son ah, how do you face so many red bumps? Yan Wu always smiled and said: pinch father, your eyes are not good, my face red and moist it!

Over time, Yan Wu's filial behavior touched a nest of crows perched at the mouth of the cave, and these crows saw the mosquitoes and ate them, and then there were no mosquitoes in the cave. Yan Wu sometimes to ask for food back, will also save a little food to feed the crows to eat. The crows and the father became good neighbors.

One day at dawn, the crows were suddenly awakened by a cry of pain, it turned out that Yanwu's father died, Yanwu embraced his father's remains at the entrance of the cave and cried his eyes out, och whetstone crows are also infected by the miserable cry, so sad, "wow! Wow! Wow!" Wah, wah, wah! Later, several crows left the nest one after another and flew in different directions.

After a few hours, a miracle occurred: thousands of crows flew toward Yen Wu and his son, each with a white mourning ring around its neck. The crows circled around the heads of Yan Wu's father and son a few times, and then flew in a northwesterly direction, they were from 1 kilometer away from the yellow earth to the mud, piled up to Yan Feng's body. These crows you a piece of mud, I a piece of mud, busy flying back and forth, soon, the crow's beak is injured, the mud block are stained with dots of crow blood.

By evening, the crows had built a tall, large grave.?

It is said that when Yan Wu, a filial son, died, the crows buried him next to his father's grave. People built a shrine here, called the Shrine of the Filial Son. In order to commemorate those righteous crows who built graves and were injured, people called this area of the place Wu Wound. After Emperor Qin Shihuang pacified Jiangnan, this place was built as a county named Wuxian, and in 624 A.D., it was called Yiwu.?

According to the old people said, when the crows pecked the mud and become a large pit of water into a pond, is now the city passenger center north of the Qin pond; crows articulate mud on the way to rest because of the fall of a lot of mud, into a small steamed buns Hill, some years ago the city expansion, the steamed buns Hill was taken to do the road, become a section of the city's North Road, the approximate location of Yiwu Dengfeng machinery limited company nearby.

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Yiwu other historical stories:

1, Fotang

Fotang is a famous town of Yiwu with a long history. 1931 Hangjiang Railway before the opening of the town of Fotang by virtue of the advantages of the water transport of the Yiwu River became the local economic and transportation center. It is the center of economy and transportation, and has the reputation of "Little Lanxi".

Before the founding of the PRC, Yiwu River was the main waterway for the east, west and south townships of Yiwu. It can go up to Weishan in Dongyang, and down to Jinhua, Lanxi, Hangzhou, Qu County, Changshan, and up to Tunxi in Anhui Province. It can pass bamboo rafts and wooden sailing boats of 3 to 5 tons. Fotang Town was the main water transportation wharf at that time, thus bringing the prosperity of shipping industry, commerce and service industry. In (Jiaqing) Yiwu County Records, there are as many as 6 entries describing Fotang. Such as Fotang Town, Fotang City, Fotang Street, Fotang Port, Upper Fotang, Lower Fotang and so on. In the Fotang town entry, there are "South negative cloud yellow (mountain), north of Daxi (river), across the floating beam (bridge), the ship moored as ants attached to the record. Yiwu county governor Yang Chun-chang in the Qing dynasty Qianlong in the "Wan Shan bridge record" wrote Fotang town is "convergence of the four directions, clothing Jia pulling the car, traffic in neighboring counties 攠. This shows that Fotang Town was famous more than 220 years ago.

The origin of the Fotang town pressure, has a magical legend. According to "Fu Da Shi Anthology * Song Touduo biography" and "(Jiaqing) Yiwu County Records" records, according to legend, in the North and South Dynasties, the Tianzhu State a Song Touduo, the name of Dharma, in the South Dynasty Liang Dynasty, Emperor Wu Tianjian years (A.D. 502-519 years) to the Wu injury, living in the rocky valley jungle in the Xiangshan Mountain.

Later, Dharma traveled to Pine Crag Mountain, and the Liang Dynasty, Wu injury Lou Yan met, the two have similar interests, talk very much, Dharma invited Lou Yan the following year back to Wu injury to raise funds for the construction of the Fragrant Hill Temple, Lou Yan readily agreed. After the temple was built, Dharma became the abbot of the temple.

Liang dynasty ordinary two years (AD 521 years) on March 14, Dharma to nearby villages to participate in the fasting, fasting will end, Dharma refused to return to the temple, the people stayed bitterly, Dharma said: poor monks edge will come, the edge of the end and go. The people saw Dharma's intention to go has been decided, only to send off in tears. Dharma went south to Jinshan.

At that time, due to days of heavy rain, the river soared, some embankments have been washed away gap, the flood water mercilessly flooded the fields, low-lying villages are also immersed in the water, the villagers have climbed on the roofs, some climbed in the trees, some have been swept away by the flood, struggling in the water, the situation is very critical.

There are a few wooden boats on the river, but in the face of the waves, they are moored by the embankment, cowering in fear. Dharma is a high monk, great powers, in the face of this situation, mouth incantation, carry the iron fish chime (a kind of iron, shaped like a fish magic weapon) thrown into the air, only to see the iron fish chime released thousands of rays of light, into a wooden boat drifting into the river.

Dharma also reached out and pointed, the wooden boat to the people surrounded by flood water quickly, the boat in the raging waves, meandering, until all the people in distress to all the rescue to the embankment, the motorcycle to retrieve the iron fish chime, and an umbrella placed on the water, sitting on the umbrella to float across the river, to the Jiting pond to the enlightenment of the Fu Xie (that is, the later Fu Da Shi) to go.

In order to thank Dharma for his great kindness in saving people's lives, the common people built a Wat Chime Temple for people to worship. In the temple, there is a couplet: "Buddha's light spreads through the color of ten thousand generations, and the candles in the hall shine brightly in all directions". The first word of the couplet was "Fotang" and the temple was called "Ancient Fotang", which is the name of the temple.

The people of Fotang treasured this ancient temple, which has been repaired and rebuilt several times, and is still well preserved in the western part of the town.

2, Huang Chao Valley

Standing at the entrance to the village of Qiuzhai in Yixi, looking west, you can see that there is a ravine around the Xiaohuangyan extends to the northwest. Follow the ravine approaching the foot of Xiaohuangyan, about two kilometers ahead, the ravine seems to come to an end. A craggy stone wall majestic, dark rock almost no grass, only a few small trees y rooted in the stone cracks. If you continue forward and approach the stone wall, you can find a seam more than ten meters wide in the middle of it.

A small stream gurgles out of it. The cliffs on both sides are like axe-sharpening, standing upright. Except for the upward climb along the brook, even birds and animals can't get up there. Following the brook upwards, the mountain crevice gradually becomes wider and the road becomes easier to walk. After climbing 500 meters, there is a mountainous area of about two to three square kilometers. The trees are lush and full of life. Surrounded by high mountains and steep hills, it is a paradise beyond the world. There is also a legend about this place.?

The end of the Tang Dynasty was characterized by political corruption, and Huang Chao took the opportunity to raise an army against the Tang in the north, but was unfortunately thwarted by the suppression of the powerful Tang army. Huang Chao then led his troops to Jiangnan. With the Tang army in pursuit, the rebel army was very sleepy and wanted to find an ideal place to rest and recuperate. One day, the army came to Yiwu and set up camp. At night, Huang Chao had a dream that he led his army into a magical canyon in Yixi, where the army was rested and the supply of soldiers was replenished.

The next day, he sent his men to explore and look for it as shown in the dream, and he found this valley northwest of Xiaohuangyan.?

Before entering the valley, he first sent his soldiers to wipe out the bandits, suppress the bullies, and distribute the proceeds to the villagers. Therefore, the villagers joined the army one after another. After a period of time in the valley, the insurgent army suddenly came out of the mountain, and took Wuzhou with a swift momentum.

Later, the local villagers named this valley as Huang Chao Valley in order to honor the insurgent army.

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