What is the story of sailing a crane to the west?

The word "crane traveling to the west" comes from the legend of Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In his later years, Wang Xizhi worked behind closed doors and concentrated on reading and writing. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, his son Wang Xianzhi came to the shore of Jianhu Lake in Huiji. He met a monk and gave Wang Xizhi a trust. Wang Xizhi opened it. The letter said: "At noon in Duanyang, I will go home by crane, cut off all my troubles and visit the Queen Mother." After reading the letter, Wang Xizhi went to Jianhu. There is indeed a white crane by the lake. Wang Xizhi rode on a white crane and flew into the blue sky. Later, people only regarded the death of a respected person as a "crane traveling west."

In ancient China, cranes were often regarded as a symbol of longevity and were greatly influenced by Buddhism. Buddhism believes that people will be in the western paradise after death, so it is compared to "driving a crane to the west." As an auspicious spirit bird, cranes are accompanied by immortals. Therefore, there are euphemisms for death, such as going west, visiting immortals, dying in the west, becoming immortals and so on. Driving a crane west is a euphemism for the death of an old man. You can't use it indiscriminately. In addition, there are words such as "drive back to Yaochi" and "go to Wonderland early".

Legend has it that every year on the third day of March, the sixth day of June and the eighth day of August in the lunar calendar, the Queen Mother of the West specially holds the Flat Peach Festival here, and all kinds of immortals come to celebrate the birthday of the founding father of the Queen Mother of the West, which is very lively. "Mu Wang was in Yaochi, on the side of Kunlun Mountain, explaining" Mu Chuan "by the Queen Mother of the West", while the Monkey King, the Great Sage of Qitian, ate flat peaches and made a scene in the Heavenly Palace (The Journey to the West). Not far from the Black Sea is the place where Jiang Taigong practiced Wuxing Avenue for forty years, as described in the Romance of Gods. ? The mysterious and highest altitude Yaochi, the Queen Mother of the West. There is a stone tablet of "Queen Mother of Xiyaochi". China people from all over the world, especially compatriots from Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macau, come here to worship and seek their roots.

In China's myths and legends, the Virgin of Yaochi is also called the Golden Mother and the Western Queen Mother, and the Western Queen Mother is also called the Golden Mother and the Golden Mother Yuan Jun, commonly known as the Queen Mother. Originally a goddess in ancient China mythology, she was decorated by Taoism and regarded as a fairy leader. In China people's minds, the image of the Virgin Mary is an elegant and detached kind goddess. She lives in the sacred land of Yaochi in Kunlun Mountain and has been planted for 3,000 years.