1, according to legend, a long, long time ago, mackerel circle is a small fishing village, the coast is not like the present such as crescent-shaped, but almost a straight line. On the hillock of the beach, there lived a young man who lived by fishing. This young man had an ancestral flute, and every time he returned from fishing, he stood on the hillock and played various tunes, which were extremely moving. Even the fish in the sea were mesmerized by it.

2. One day, the descendant was playing the flute, when suddenly, a foot-long fish scurried out of the water, flipped a flower in the air, and landed on the beach. The latter put down the flute, walked to see, is a beautiful Spanish mackerel, is lying on the beach in the side of the residual gasping. The latter took pity on it: "Wahoo girl, what's wrong with you?" The mackerel said breathlessly, "Brother, save me, put me back into the sea." Spanish mackerel can talk, the afterlife feel strange, is hesitating, and heard the Spanish mackerel said "big brother, you saved me, I will not treat you poorly, the sea has all the treasures, what I want to give you what." After years of wandering in the sea, all day long for the life of fear, said: "Spanish mackerel girl, you can give me a water pearl?" The Spanish mackerel said with disappointment, "It's easy for you to ask for anything, only the water-avoiding bead is too difficult, you have to pull down all the scales of the Spanish mackerel to build a water-avoiding bead." The latter was not satisfied. "Well, I'll keep my word, I'll send you a water-avoiding bead after three days." The latter held up the mackerel and gently released it into the sea.

3. The mackerel that was saved turned out to be the mackerel princess of the sea. After she went back, she immediately gathered all the sisters together and said: "It is a difficult thing to build a water-avoiding bead, but I have promised the descendant who plays the cross flute, and we have not spoken without counting, so let's do it. Only to see the harem courtyard between two standing coral stones, sandwiched between a flat round iron ring with serrated teeth. Princess mackerel first drilled through, her body scales were scraped down, naked body was cut out of a line of blood, like peeling a layer of skin. She endured the pain and almost fainted. Turning to look at the sisters. Princess of Spanish mackerel's body demonstration, sisters dare not slow down, one after another from the iron ring drilled through, each body turned light, each body is a bloody road, pain each other wailed. The Spanish mackerel princess put a pile of fish scales under the iron round ring, put it into the pot, let people set up a fire to fry up.

4, three days later, Princess of Spanish mackerel personally sent to the latter to avoid water beads. The latter saw the water beads, happy, and hastened to thank Princess Mackerel. Princess mackerel like to complete a big thing, free and easy to swim back. In the twinkling of an eye a year has passed, one night, the sirens are floating in the sea singing, suddenly saw a big wave drifting past a person, the sirens stop singing, clap hands and face slippery tone called: "Come on, brothers, we can have a big meal tonight 1" they all pounced over, the person drifting in their hands and then picked up, while singing, while returning to the water palace. singing a song, they returned to the water palace, and shut up the drowned man in a little room. One of the sirens said, "Let's get some wine and come back to eat," and the rest of the sirens went off to prepare for the midnight feast.

5, the Spanish mackerel princess see four sirens happy look, thought they must be the night and eat people, come to see rare. She peeled the small room to see, put her shocked, that lying person is not the flute player after the student? How did he end up in such a state? She immediately opened the door and went in to inquire carefully. The latter slowly woke up originally, the latter in fishing, encountered the sea wind, capsized the boat; at first, the water pearl is still in the mouth, but then opened his mouth, the water pearl on the unknown where to go. The latter begged the mackerel princess: "Princess, save me! There are all kinds of treasures on the coast, I'll give you whatever you want." Princess Mackerel liked the flute very much, so she said, "Give me this flute." The descendant promised, "OK! I promise to wait for you on the beach with the flute on the 15th day of the 8th month.

6, "mackerel Princess will be back out, hidden in their own back garden; and then called the sisters, in the Bohai Sea for the back of the spread of the people, looking for the lost water beads mackerel sisters to find the water beads, the Princess will be the water beads given to the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the water beads in his mouth, like a boat, only to hear the sound of the water whirring, not very soon, he came to the shore! He returned home. On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the latter drove the transverse flute and played one tune after another.

7, a little while later, this flute will be given to the mackerel princess: they can no longer blow, he was a little reluctant to give up. After the student is blowing vigorously, a neighboring old fisherman, suddenly surprised shouted: "after the student, you see, open sky and earth ... open sky and earth ......" after the student along with the fisherman's finger to the sea to see, can be a big deal, full of the sea! The back of the Spanish mackerel, a crowded one, black, dry pressure, one is toward the shore with a round mouth. They were probably singing happily to the sound of the flute, because they were going to get the flute in a while. But the old fisherman advised the latter, saying, "You give them the flute, they, the latter, you must not give it!" Said turned around far not to go far away?went.

8, time is up, Princess of Spanish mackerel and other students come to hand over the flute, but students did not come over; time is up, Princess and other students come to hand over the flute, but students still did not come over. Princess look, the latter did not mean to hand over the flute, turned back to the sisters a signal, followed by a mountain of strange screams, all cursing the latter's words are not trustworthy. The latter put up the flute, turned to go home. The Spanish mackerel were anxious. Princess of the order, "cackle, cackle, cackle" millions of Spanish mackerel ate the coast, want to catch up with the latter, the latter swallowed.

9, however, although the coast was gnawed away large pieces, become crescent-shaped, still can not catch up with the latter, the front row of Spanish mackerel in a fit of pique, are flopping onto the beach, gas dead. People came to the beach to see, the beach became a crescent-shaped bay, the water's edge lying one by one of the Spanish mackerel, forming more than half a circle. That old fisherman went away after driving up the boat, manipulation of the fish after the road down the net, want to make a fortune from it, did not think that the fish more power, and in the gas, we make a strong effort to bring the net to run away, the net yanked the boat over, the old fisherman also drowned.

10, after this, every year on the 15th of August, the dedication of the fish always have to make a fuss here. From then on, this half-moon shaped coastal fishing village, it is known as the Spanish mackerel circle.