Maigao Bridge, which belongs to Qixia District, Nanjing, is one of the ancient place names in Nanjing, located outside the Shenmen and the Central Gate of the toilet in the north of Nanjing. Maigao Bridge was not called Maigao Bridge originally, but called "Selling Cake Bridge". ?

Legend of Maigao Bridge:

Legend has it that a long time ago, an old woman without children sold steamed cakes at the bridge. This is a delicious specialty snack, which melts in the mouth, so some mothers who don't have milk will buy it to feed their children. In other words, the old lady's steamed cakes are delicious, so people in Shili near Fiona Fang will buy some to eat, and the old lady's business is always good.

But strangely, every night when the old woman goes back to count the money she earned in a day, she will find a banknote in it. At first, my mother-in-law didn't take it to heart, thinking that some greedy people cheated her with paper money. But after a long time, she still received the paper money. The old woman wanted to know who had been buying cakes with paper money.

There was a young woman who attracted the attention of the old woman. She buys cakes with her children in her arms every day. Every time a young woman finishes buying, paper money will appear in the cash box. When the woman bought cakes with paper money again, the old woman exposed her with a basin of water on the spot. The woman cried and said, "To tell you the truth, I'm not human. I died in childbirth. But I didn't expect to give birth to a child after being buried in a coffin. " Therefore, women can only have paper money to buy cakes to feed their children every day. The business in the old woman's shop is good because of the protection of women.

The woman cried and begged the old woman, saying that there was no one at home. If the child was allowed to live in the coffin all the time, I was afraid it would not survive. Let the old lady rescue the child and adopt it, and let the child take the old lady's surname. Hearing this, the old woman didn't feel like it. She asked the woman that it was disrespectful to open the museum if she wanted to save the children. The woman said it was a saving grace for me. What's wrong with opening a museum? After telling her mother-in-law's address, the woman cried and thanked her and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The old woman took the people to the place where the woman said, and sure enough, she found the coffin. When the coffin was opened, the woman had not rotted and the child was still hot. After drinking ginger soup all night, the child can cry. The old woman adopted a child, and when the child grew up, she was a smart person.

When the old woman watched the child grow up, she told him about his life and his mother's tomb and asked the child to worship. In the evening, the biological mother told the child in her dream that it was too painful for her to swim in the water every time in order to buy him a cake. Let the children build a bridge convenient for passers-by. So the children built a bridge and bought cakes on the water.