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The Legend of "New Year's Money"
On New Year's Eve, every child was able to get New Year's money.
The earliest New Year's money appeared in the Han Dynasty, also known as the pressure of the money, not in circulation, but cast into the form of coins ornamental objects, has the function of avoiding evil spirits. The front side of the coin is generally cast with "long live the thousand years", "to remove the evil" and other auspicious words and dragons and phoenixes, turtles and snakes, double fish and other auspicious designs.
There is a story about New Year's money. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a small demon called "Sneaky", with a black body and white hands, who came out on the night of New Year's Eve every year and specialized in touching the brains of sleeping children. After being touched, the child would have a high fever and talk in his sleep, and after the fever went down, he would become a crazy fool. People are afraid of the evil spirits to harm the children, light the lamp all night long, called "guarding the evil spirits".
It is said that there is a family surnamed tube in Jiaxing, husband and wife in old age, very precious son. On the night of New Year's Eve, in order to prevent "Sneaky" to infestation has been teasing the child to play, the child with red paper wrapped in eight coins, wrapped and unwrapped, unwrapped and wrapped, slept, wrapped in eight coins on the pillow. In the middle of the night, a gust of wind blew, the dark little man was about to touch the child's head with his white hand, suddenly a golden light burst out from the child's pillow, and Soun fled with a scream. So this story spread, everyone followed suit, in the New Year's Eve with red paper wrapped in money to the child, the sneak will not dare to come back to infestation. Therefore, people call this kind of money "pressure Sneaky money", "Sneaky" and "age" pronunciation is the same, day after day, it is called "New Year's money The first is the "Sung" and the "year", and the second is the "year".
Nuwa Mending Heaven
One day, the Great Dragon, together with Jingwei and Xiaotaiji, went to the ancient times to play, and actually saw the legendary Buzhou Mountain, which could hold up the sky and open up the sky and the earth, and also encountered the beautiful Nuwa, and even saw Nuwa mending the sky....
It was such an amazing experience that it makes my nose hurt to talk about it!
Nuwa, the great god in the sky, made clay dolls out of clay and then gave them life.
From then on, Nuwa created human beings, and people have been living happily for generations.
However, the good times didn't last long.
One year, Zhu Rong, the god of fire, and **** Gong, the god of water, fought a war.
***Worker knocked down the pillar holding up the sky, Buzhou Mountain, and the sky collapsed in half, smashing a lot of holes, and cracking the ground, and the floods on the ground and the water of the heavenly river kept leaking down, resulting in floods and fires on the earth, which was really a tragedy!
Nuwa, in order to save mankind, decided to quarry stones to mend the sky, mending the sky with five-color stones, and then using the four feet of the East China Sea God turtle to hold the sky.
Seeing that the great work of mending the sky was about to be completed, she realized that there were not enough five-colored stones and the big hole had not been mended yet.
The compassionate Nuwa had to sacrifice her own life and use her body to mend the big hole in the sky. Seeing that process with her own eyes, the Great Dragon, the Jingwei and the Little Taiji, as well as all the clay dolls cried red eyes!
After several efforts, Nuwa finally mended the sky, and peace was restored to heaven and earth, and colorful clouds appeared.
All creatures were alive again on the earth.
The laurel is 500 feet tall and closes as soon as it is cut, and it was this never-ending labor that Emperor Yan used as punishment for Wu Gang.
And Wu Gang's wife, feeling guilty about what had happened to her husband, ordered her three sons to fly up to the moon to keep Wu Gang company; one became a toad, one a rabbit, and one is unknown.
The Carp Jumps the Dragon Gate
The Temple Gorge, also known as the Wonderful Gorge.
The two towering and majestic Phoenix Mountains, plucking water from the sky, standing between the river, the fascinating carp jumping Dragon Gate, living and breathing, majestic and spectacular.
Entering the canyon, the two mountains, cliffs, cliffs stacked, cliffs, wall peaks piercing the sky;
Strange rock flowers, according to the wall competition, the canyon decorated into a fairyland in general.
This magical canyon has a beautiful and touching story.
A long time ago, the villagers on the banks of the Longxi River, men and women plowed and weaved, and lived a peaceful and happy life.
One year, a big yellow dragon flew in from nowhere and did a lot of evil.
It either called the wind and rain to destroy the crops, or swallowed the clouds and spit out the mist to harm the living beings, the whole canyon to make a mess, no peace.
Every year on June 6, its birthday, but also forced people to offer a pair of boys and girls and ten head of cattle, a hundred pigs, sheep and other things for it to enjoy.
If not, it will be angry and evil, open its bloody mouth, scurrying up to the village to devour people and animals, destroying the countryside, causing the people of Ninghe to complain and suffer.
The town of Longxi at the mouth of the gorge, there is a smart and handsome young girl named Yu Gu, she was determined to get rid of this evil dragon.
On several occasions, she went up to Yuntai Guan to seek help from Yuntai Fairy, but failed to find it.
She was still not discouraged and continued to look for it.
This morning, she climbed up to the Yuntai Temple, and the fairy was touched by Yugu's spirit of sincerity and perseverance, and appeared in front of her eyes, pointing out to her: "There is a carp cave thousands of kilometers away from here, so you can go and meet with a carp fairy, and she will surely be able to help you."
Yugu said goodbye to the Yuntai Fairy, and traveled through mountains and rivers to the Carp Cave, where she found the Carp Fairy and explained her purpose.
The Carp Fairy said to Yugu, "You want to rid the people of evil, which is a great thing, but you must sacrifice yourself! Can you do that?"
YuGu said without hesitation: "As long as it is to get rid of the harm for the townspeople and destroy that evil dragon, I am willing to go up the mountain of swords, go down to the sea of fire, and break my body and bones!"
The Carp Fairy, seeing that Yugu was so sincere and resolute, nodded her head with great satisfaction, and sprayed three mouthfuls of white spring towards Yugu, and she was suddenly transformed into a beautiful and vigorous red carp.
The little red carp swam up the river, and after seventy-nine days, swam back home.
This day is the morning of June 6, she turned back to the original appearance, see the townspeople are ready: a pair of boys and girls, ten big yellow oxen, a hundred fat sheep and pigs. People beat gongs and drums, like a long dragon to the sacrifice of the Yellow Dragon's gorge to come, the front of the pair of children dressed in red, red dress boy and girl, has long been crying into tears.
The yellow dragon saw the people sent to the feast of delicacies, has been salivating, proudly opened his mouth.
Just at this time of a thousand fishing, YuGu stepped forward, stopped the folks and said: "everyone here to pause and wait, let me go forward to clean up this vermin."
The words just finished, saw the jade nun jumped down into the water, all of a sudden into a big red carp, leaping in the air, straight towards the mouth of the evil dragon rushed, a scurry into its belly, east stabbing west poke, the dragon's organs pounded to the ground, the evil dragon desperately struggling to roll around, but to no avail, and finally was killed by the jade nun.
But, Yu Gu himself was also buried in the yellow dragon belly.
From then on, the people of Ninghe lived in peace and happiness again.
People built a Carp Temple halfway up the mountain at the mouth of the gorge in order to honor the memory of Yugu for ridding the people of evil.
To this day, the story of the carp jumping over the Dragon Gate is still widely circulated around Ninghe.
The Legend of Tanabata
A long time ago, there was an orphan who lived with his brother and sister-in-law, who was both smart and hardworking, but his sister-in-law still disliked him, and drove him up to the mountains to herd cows before dawn, and everyone called him Cowherd, and after a few years, his brother and sister-in-law split up the family with Cowherd, and his sister-in-law gave him only a broken rowing house and an old cow. From then on, Cowherd spent his days herding cows and chopping wood, and at night he slept with the old cow in the broken room.
One day, Cowherd drove his ox into a strange forest, where the mountains were green and the water was beautiful, and the birds and flowers were fragrant. Cowherd saw nine nymphs driving auspicious clouds fell on the grass of the river, and then take off the colorful neon dress, jumped into the crystal clear river water, the cowherd stared at one of the youngest is beautiful nymphs. Ke was mesmerized, when the old ox suddenly spoke: "She is the weaving in the sky, just take away the colorful neon dress, she will be your wife." Cowboy quietly along the tree from, quietly took away the weaving nymph's colorful neon dress. As the day approached noon, the other fairies put on their colorful neon dresses and rode away on the auspicious clouds. The only one who couldn't find the colorful neon dresses was the Weaving Maiden. At this time, the cowherd from the tree to be out of the back, requesting the weaving woman to do his wife weaving woman to see the cowherd loyal and honest, hard-working and strong pulse shy nodded his head.
The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden were happy to be married, and the men plowed and the women wove, respecting and loving each other. Two years later, the Weaving Maiden gave birth to a man. However, when the Emperor of Heaven heard that the Weaving Maiden had married on earth, he was furious. On the seventh day of the seventh month, the Queen Mother was ordered to take the heavenly soldiers to catch the Weaving Maiden, and the grief-stricken Cowherd, with the help of the old oxen, chased his children up to the sky in a basket of roses. See catching up, the Queen Mother dialed down the golden hairpin a stroke, the cowherd feet immediately appeared a rough river in the sky.
The weaving maiden and picking children of the cowherd, one in the east of the river and one in the west of the river, looking at the sobbing and crying touched the magpies, countless magpies flew to the heavenly river in a flash, built a magpie bridge, the cowherd and the weaving maiden can finally meet in the magpie bridge, the queen mother had no choice but to allow the cowherd and the weaving maiden every year on the seventh day of the seventh month in the bridge to meet once.
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