A legend about the Yangliu River was once circulated in the Huayuan and Puxing areas of Xinjin. The core of the story is simply the Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet.

The bottom layer of the story reveals some of the secrets of digging rivers.

The story begins as usual in a distant era.

There are two families named Yang and Liu living in Huangniba, Puxing.

Because there is a feud between the two surnames, the children are not allowed to intermarry, and those who violate it will be put to death.

But a young man named Yang Xing fell in love with a woman named Liu Xiang.

So the Liu family captured the two of them and wanted to punish them.

But at this moment, the flood came, and the patriarch had to stop his family law and said to the two of them: Let the flood deal with you.

However, if you two can conquer the flood, you will be allowed to get married.

The two looked at the torrential flood and were helpless.

At that time, the Sichuan River was flowing across the river and floods occurred every year. The villagers did not know how to draw water except by climbing Muma Mountain.

I don’t know how long it took, but Yang Xing accidentally said a word that inspired the two of them: Alas, if the water had a road, the water would not run around.

So after the water subsided, the two began to manage the water and dug a river channel.

When there was a flood next year, the water really flowed away in the river.

So the river dug longer and longer, forming a real river. And what about Yang Xing and Liu Xiang? They naturally became a couple and lived happily.

The two surnamed Yangliu families have since eliminated their hatred and have been living in harmony and friendship from generation to generation.

Later, people named the river after the two surnames Yangliu, and the name Yangliu River was passed down.

This folk tale contains the romantic and tragic atmosphere of Nongdu, and embodies the local people's yearning for a peaceful and sweet life.