It is said that in ancient times, this place was called "Peach Grove".
At that time, there was a giant named Kuafu. He always had two long snakes hanging from his ears and a long peach wood crutch in his hand.
One day, he suddenly had a whim and wanted to race with the sun.
Starting from sunrise, he climbed over mountains and ridges, crossed rivers and swamps, and chased until the sun set.
As soon as Kuafu saw the sun setting, he chased after it with all his strength, but before he could reach the sun, his mouth was parched by the blazing fire and the pain was unbearable.
He had no choice but to turn around and run to the Yellow River and Weihe River to drink water. Although the river water was drained, it still could not quench his thirst. In the end, he died of thirst at the foot of the Qinling Mountains with his mahogany crutch. It has also turned into a large peach forest that stretches for dozens of kilometers.
Whenever the peach blossoms bloom in spring, butterflies and bees dance here, and the scenery is pleasant, so people call this place "Peach Grove".
According to legend, in the late Kaiyuan year (AD 741), one morning when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had just sat down, Tian Tongxiu, a soldier in the Chen Palace, stepped forward and started to read: "Your Majesty, I have a dream last night. , I dreamed that the purple aura was lingering on the Danfeng Gate of Hangu Guandan in Taolin County (today's Lingbao City), and Emperor Xuanyuan (Laozi) was floating in it. I was about to step forward and bow down, when I heard the old man say: "I hide the spiritual talisman in Yin." Xi's old house.
'After saying that, he disappeared. I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked your Majesty to make a decision." After hearing this, Xuanzong was overjoyed and immediately sent people to Hangu Pass to look for the talisman.
Sure enough, a "spirit talisman" was dug out west of the former residence of Yin Xi, the original pass commander of Hangu Pass - a wood chip made of peach wood with the words "十十十木" written in cinnabar. Everyone did not understand the meaning of this word, so they had to send the "spiritual talisman" to Chang'an (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) to be presented to Emperor Xuanzong for reading.
Xuanzong held the "Spirit Talisman" and looked left and right, but he couldn't understand it, and the ministers couldn't see anything.
Later on, Tian Tongxiu, who was still good at following people's influence, said tentatively: "I don't know whether Wei Chen's opinion is right or not, so I dare not speak nonsense." "Aiqing discovered that the 'spiritual talisman' has merit, but there is no harm in talking about it." "Look at these things, I think." The two characters together look like the character "mulberry" in ancient books.
Three crosses plus a wooden character. When the wood is separated, it becomes a cross and a eight character, which together make forty-eight." As soon as he said it, all the ministers understood it.
"Forty-eight, forty-eight, Emperor Xuanyuan will bless my emperor for forty-eight years of prosperity." A minister actually shouted happily.
Everyone also echoed, saying that this was Emperor Xuanyuan's appearance and the "spiritual talisman" was sent, which was very gratifying.
Tang Xuanzong was naturally very happy, thinking that this was Lao Tzu's gift to him, so he changed the reign name from "Kaiyuan" to "Tianbao".
Taolin County, where the "spiritual talisman" was discovered, was changed to Lingbao County.
Lingbao City has a long history and was formed by the merger of Lingbao and Nuxiang counties.
Lingbao County was established in the 3rd year of Yuanding of the Han Dynasty (114 BC) and changed its name several times. It was called Hongnong County in the Han Dynasty, Taolin County in the Sui Dynasty, and was renamed Lingbao in the first year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty. County; Laxiang County was called Hu County in history. It was renamed Hucheng County in Zhengguangzhong of the Northern Wei Dynasty and belonged to Xihengnong County.
The Northern Zhou Dynasty belonged to Hongnong County.
At the beginning of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty, it belonged to Shaanzhou.
It was abolished in the 16th year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign (596) and later restored.
In the third year of Qianyuan of Tang Dynasty (760), it was changed to Tianping County.
In the fourth year of the Dali calendar (769), it was restored to Hucheng County.
In the fourth year of Xining (1071) of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was abandoned to Lingbao County and restored in the sixth year of Yuanfeng (1083).
In the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1265) by Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty, it was abolished and merged into Nexiang County; in 1954, Nexiang County was abolished and merged into Lingbao County.