Legend of jianchi

Speaking of Jianchi Waterfall, there is an ancient legend that can't be ignored. According to legend, Jianchi is the place where famous swordsmen and their wife Mo Xie cast swords during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. According to Jiangmen in the Land of Wu, He Lv, the king of Wu, ordered a general to cast a sword for him, which lasted for three months. If the iron juice is not enough, the general will be punished by the king of Wu. Mo Xie asked for advice. He said that if you give a woman a furnace god, you can get exercise. So Mo Xie went into the melting pot. Suddenly, the fire was full of red light. When it went out, I saw two green lights flashing and lying on the bottom of the furnace. This is Mo Xie's sword for men and women made of flesh and blood. Both Searching for the Gods in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Biography by Cao Pi describe the death of Mo Xie, a lieutenant who cast a sword in a sword pool. His son gave his life for his father with a red nose. Up to now, on a dark brown stone covered with moss at the bottom of Fuxi Bridge, the words "the place where Wu Zhou General Mo Xie and his wife sharpened their knives" are engraved.

In the valley of Shadow Mountain in Moganshan, it is said that Mo Xie and his generals sharpened their knives. The water in the pool is clear. There are waterfalls hanging in the air, and the water passes through the stone limit, forming a triple stack. There are pavilions and ramps next to it, hovering up and down. The inscriptions on the cliff walls are mostly in dense Chinese characters. There is a pavilion and a half on the hill opposite the pool.

Legends and allusions: fake tiger hill and real sword pool

Tiger hill sword pool "four characters. This was written by Yan Zhenqing, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Yan Ti is known as the "Swallowtail of Silkworm Head" and has made great achievements. After he wrote these four words, the word "Tiger Hill" was gradually forgotten after many years. In the Ming Dynasty, Ma Zhijun, the magistrate of Suzhou, ordered Zhang Zhongyu, a famous stone carving master, to describe and carve the word "Tiger Hill", but later generations always thought that the word "Tiger Hill" was not as beautiful as the word "Sword Pool", so there was the saying that "the fake tiger hill is really a sword pool". Maybe everyone will ask, "Why is the word Tiger Hill not as beautiful as the word Sword Pool? "In fact, take a closer look at the tiger roll in Tiger Hill and the sword roll in Jianchi, and you can see the gap between the two characters. The curl of the sword in the sword pool gives people a very smooth feeling, while the curl of the tiger in the tiger hill has an obvious feeling of being stripped of traces.

There is also a meaning called "fake tiger hill, real sword pool", which also implies the secret of He Lu's tomb, because the cliffs on the east and west sides of the sword pool are naturally formed, and the back hill of Tiger Hill is artificially built with soil to cover up the tomb of Wu Wang He Lu.