According to legend, a long time ago, there were a dozen young fishermen named Haisheng in Bailong Village, Bailong Bay, Hepu County.

One day, Haisheng went out to sea to fish and was suddenly attacked by a sea monster. He almost died. At the critical moment, fortunately, the beautiful mermaid princess of the White Dragon Pearl Palace used her protective treasure, the Night Pearl, to save her. Marine.

Under the meticulous care of Princess Fish, Haisheng recovered quickly. During this time together, the love between Haisheng and the princess gradually deepened. So the fish princess followed Haisheng to the mortal world, changed her name to Pearl, and returned to Bailong Village together, and they got married. Haisheng fished, and the princess practiced medicine and weaving. Her superb medical skills and exquisite hand-woven fabrics were famous far and wide.

After the prefect heard about Pearl Girl and Ye Mingzhu, in order to please the emperor, he harmed Hai Sheng on trumped-up charges and wanted to take away Pearl Girl and Ye Mingzhu by force. Hai Sheng tried his best to protect his wife, but was tied up with all his strength and died miserably in the mist. Under the official's stick. The princess watched her husband die, sad and disappointed in the world, and took Ye Mingzhu back to the Bailongzhu Palace in Bailong Bay where she originally lived.

After the fish princess lost her beloved, every night when the moon was white and the waves were flat, she would sit on the coral reef for a while, and then walk back and forth to the coast, where sea creatures used to like to go fishing. of the seven seas.

These seven sea areas are not only rich in fish, but also the seven places with the most sea clams. The fish princess followed her husband's footsteps, missing her husband and crying while she was sad. She kept walking back and forth, her tears of grief dripping down and falling into the sea.

The true feelings of the fish princess moved the clams under the reef. They lovingly accepted the fish princess’s sad tears and swallowed them into the shells. Over time, the fish princess’s tears were bred in the belly of the sea clams. It became crystal pearls, as round and translucent as every teardrop. Gradually, these seven sea areas formed pearl pools rich in pearls.

That is, today's seven pearl ponds are Bailong, Yangmei, Pingjiang, Wuni, Duanwang, Baisha and Qingying.

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The allusion of the shark weeping beads comes from "Taiping Yulan". It is said that there is a kind of mermaid in the South China Sea who came out of the water to play. She stayed in someone's house for many days. When she saw that the rice tank was empty, the owner was about to sell silk yarn. The mermaid asked the owner for a vessel. Her tears turned into beads and filled a plate to give to the owner. .

Also: Jinhua's "Natural History": "There are sharks in the South China Sea. They live in the water like fish. They do not waste time weaving, and their eyes can weep."

The meaning of this allusion. The name is called Shark Crying Pearl. A very beautiful story. The translation is that there are sharks in the South China Sea. They live like fish in the water and never give up the work of weaving. When they cry, they can cry out pearls (its tears are pearls).

The sharks, With the body of a fish tail, the shark recorded in ancient Chinese classics is the mermaid in Western mythology, also known as the mermaid.

According to legend, the Mermaids were good at weaving and could make dragon yarn that was not wetted by water and could turn their tears into beads. In the famous work "Jin Se" by Tang poet Li Shangyin, the legend of the sharks is used in the sentence "The moon in the sea has tears". Legend has it that their oil has a very low ignition point, and a drop of it can burn for several days. Legend has it that there is an ever-burning lamp made of shark oil in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin.

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Shark Weeping Pearl