During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Luo Bingran, the landlord of Qianjiang, built a ancestral temple for his ancestors, hired 100 carpenters and masons, and started construction at the same time.
One of them, a stonemason named Zeng, took a dozen disciples. Shortly after the construction, he dug up a big stone by knocking on the foundation of the house.
Masons are very strange. The disciple raised his hammer to see if there was anything in it. Master Zeng, who led the work, quickly stopped, saying that no one was allowed to touch it, and it would lead to great disaster.
Disciples don't know what trouble will be caused, but they all believe that Master has a pair of discerning eyes, so it's right to listen to Master and never pay attention to this stone again.
In a blink of an eye, half a year passed and the ancestral hall was completed.
What a temple-like ancestral temple! Cornices and arches, seven columns and five rooms in the main hall, dedicated to the memorial tablet of Roche ancestors.
The sacrificial platform is carved with dragons and painted with phoenixes, with incense burners burning incense and candles on it, and bells and drums beside it as sacrificial signals.
The hatchback is the living room, where clans meet and move.
In front of the temple, a pair of stone lions guarded the chaomen. They are magnificent and unique in Fiona Fang.
Luo Bingran is very happy. He held a celebration and invited skilled craftsmen to dinner.
Master Zeng was also invited to dinner.
The disciples waited for master to come back, and the more they waited, the more angry they became. After working hard for half a year, I didn't get paid, hungry and didn't drink a mouthful of soup.
The big disciple was so angry with evil thoughts that he suddenly remembered the strange stone he dug up earlier and patted his chest and said loudly, Master, don't smash that gem, saying it would cause great disaster. I don't believe that's God.
Let's open it and see what we can do.
The second disciple also said, what are we afraid of when the sky falls with the Laurence family at the top? The disciples responded in unison, ran to the pebble, swung two hammers, and only knocked three or two times. The pebbles opened and there was a red snake curled up inside, almost as big as an eel.
When the snake saw the sunshine and air, it gradually woke up and its little skull moved slightly.
The second disciple raised his hammer to shoot the red snake, but the big disciple quickly stopped him. "I heard that the creature dug in the foundation of the house is an elf from Long Mai.
This house is a treasure trove of feng shui.
If we don't smash the stone and bury it back, the Roche family will flourish; Now that it has been smashed, the Roche family is doomed to decline. ""Does this elf want our present? "The third disciple took the message and said to Red Snake," I'll give Jackie Chan to you.
Lucky for you, we just built the Dragon Palace Hall, so you can live in it! "Red snake head up, even point three times, thank you, suddenly disappeared.
Although Master Zeng was invited to dinner, he was arranged to sit at the next table and was despised. His boss is unhappy. He thinks his disciples are waiting for me hungry! I didn't want to say compliments, so I left early and went back to my apprentice. I didn't blame them when I learned what had just happened. I said, "Pack my basket (basket with tools) and run up the hill." The words sound just fell, and suddenly the wind was blowing, dark clouds were rolling, and it was raining cats and dogs in Huo Ran.
Landslides and cracks blocked the throat.
The disciples ran to the top of the mountain and looked back. At the foot of the mountain, Wang Yang, Roche ancestral hall and nearby villages were all submerged.
This has become the Little South China Sea.
The ancestral hall has really become the Dragon Palace Hall.
The red snake doesn't forget to repay the kindness. She hasn't made waves since Jackie Chan. Xiaonanhai has become a famous scenic spot, attracting tourists from all directions.
On a sunny day, through the clear deep water, you can see the Dragon Palace Hall below!
Wang Xiaoer became immortal.
Wang Xiaoer's family is very poor. Since childhood, they have lived together with their blind mother. Wang Xiaoer made a living by mowing and selling grass.
All the grass cut by Wang Xiaoer is sold to Mr. Liu's house to feed the cattle.
He goes to the mountain behind Mr. Liu's house to chop it every day.
Because there are three nests of grass on that mountain, it will grow tomorrow if you cut it today. He cuts these three nests of grass every day, and it will grow every day.
This incident was later known by the third master of the Wang Xiaoer family. The third master said to Wang Xiaoer, "Xiao Er, you might as well dig up the cut grass and plant it next to your house, so that you can cut fewer roads every day." Wang Xiaoer dug three grass nests according to the meaning of the third master. No sooner had he dug up the grass than he found a shiny bead under it, so he picked it up.
But the grass has moved and not been planted, but the beads are precious.
Throw it into the rice jar, and the next day there will be a full jar of rice, which will be eaten every day and will rise every day; Throw the beads into the money box and use them every day.
Six months later, Wang Xiaoer's family built a tall building. They didn't have to worry about food, clothes and money.
Wang Xiaoer doesn't have to mow and sell grass every day.
Mr. Liu felt strange and sent a long-term worker to Wang Xiaoer's house to inquire. Wang Xiaoer also honestly told the man about it.
Hearing the news, Mr. Liu immediately sent someone to arrest Wang Xiaoer and asked him to hand over the orb.
Wang Xiaoer won't allow Mr. Liu to keep him in the stable.
Wang Xiaoer quietly put the orb in his mouth, but accidentally swallowed it.
Wang Xiaoer was very thirsty after swallowing the ball, so he wanted water to drink.
Mr. Liu also ordered people to tie Wang Tie's second child with chains. When he was too thirsty, Wang Xiaoer broke the chain and ran to the well to open his mouth to drink water. He drank all the well water and didn't quench his thirst.
He ran to the river in one breath and opened his mouth to drink the water from the river. The river eroded three feet, then he drank the water from the river and fell three feet. Wang Xiaoer drank three mouthfuls, and scales grew on his body, which soon turned into a golden dragon.
Two blind mothers in Wang Xiaoer chased them to the river and cried.
Wang Xiaoer swam to his mother and said, "Mom, I can't take care of you anymore. Come back to the river tonight and your eyes will be fine. "
In the evening, my mother came to the river. Wang Xiaoer licked her eyes three times with her tongue, and her eyes regained their sight.
Then, Wang Xiaoer told his mother to move her family to a mountain at once.
The night after Wang Xiaoer's mother moved home, there was a flood here.
Mr. Liu's home was flooded.
Wang Shui, which rose slowly later, is now the "Little South China Sea".
Luojiacitang
There once lived a rich man named Luo Bingran in Qianjiang, where Sichuan (now Chongqing) and Hubei meet.
Because he oppressed the people and did evil.
The people cursed him to die a natural death.
One year, Luo Bingran's family asked craftsmen to build a Luo family ancestral hall.
A stonemason found two small red snakes more than a foot long in the rubble. The two red snakes are swimming around, but they don't run away when they see people.
The stonemason said to them, "If you are a god, please go to heaven;" If it is a dragon, please go into the sea! " "The two red snakes still don't run away.
The stonemason added, "If you must live here, wait for us to repair the ancestral temple and leave here. Come again. " Hardly had the stonemason finished speaking when the two little red snakes disappeared.
Masons know that these two red snakes must be closely linked.
So after the Luojia ancestral hall was repaired, he quietly called other craftsmen and the poor people around him to let everyone move away quietly, leaving only Luo Bingran's family here.
That night, the sky suddenly thundered and thundered, and it rained cats and dogs. The old rock behind Luojia ancestral hall suddenly collapsed and mud and stones piled up, blocking the Banjia River. The heavy rain lasted for three days and nights. The Luojia ancestral hall was flooded, and Luo Bingran's family was flooded.
Later, this place formed a big lake, which was later called "Little South Sea".
chaoyang temple
Chaoyang Temple Island in Xiaonanhai is butterfly-shaped, just like a butterfly playing in the water. There used to be a Chaoyang Temple on the island (accidentally caught fire after liberation).
At that time, the bodhisattva here was very effective, and the incense was once very prosperous.
According to legend, Qianjiang County ordered Yang to divert water to Qianjiang City and then walk to Chaoyang Temple to pray for God and worship Buddha. Suddenly, the main hall of Chaoyang Temple was suddenly flooded. This magistrate Yang is a man who has seen the world, so he immediately took off his hat to block it.
Strange to say, the flood has stopped.
Yang magistrate of a county then hurried over Bamian Mountain and returned to the county seat.
That night, he dreamed that an old man with a white beard stood in front of his bed and said to him, "If you take me to the South China Sea, I will sit in Qianjiang City." .
Yang Zhifu woke up in a cold sweat, knowing that it was against the Dragon King, so he gave up the idea of introducing Xiaonanhai into Qianjiang City.
Horse savior
There once lived a family named Li under the big collapse rock in Xiaonanhai, Qianjiang.
This Li family is very rich in the local area.
When my eldest son and I got married this year, I asked Li Shaobai to write couplets.
Riding a white horse to the Li family.
Hardly had he sat down when the white horse tied to the stump jumped up and screamed.
Mr. Li Shaobai came to the horse, patted the horse on the neck and said, "Nod three times if there is something wrong, and three times if there is nothing wrong." The white horse nodded three times at once.
So Li Shaobai rode home without writing couplets.
I just ran under the bushes in Tianba Village when suddenly it was thundering, dark and raining cats and dogs.
As soon as I entered the room, I heard an earth-shattering noise, and the mountain behind the Li family collapsed. Later, I learned that my relatives and friends who came to congratulate Ali were buried in mud and stones.
Li Shaobai was glad that he survived, thanks to the little white horse.
Tangliandong
Tanglian Cave near Xiaonanhai was originally named Changnian Cave.
Legend has it that there is a surnamed tang family in Tangliandong, and the family is very rich.
One day, a long-term worker of this family went down to the river to wash vegetables. When he saw a water tower floating on the water, he took off his shoes and socks and went into the water to catch it, but he couldn't catch it.
Just follow the direction of the tower drifting away, and soon the water tower will be drilled into the hole, so the long-term workers will follow it into the hole.
Then the water tower disappeared and the long-term workers didn't come back.
Tang later found the shoes taken off by the long-term workers on the shore and thought that the long-term workers drowned. Tang also held a funeral for the long-term workers.
Seven days later, the long-term worker suddenly came back.
He said that after he entered the cave, he met an old man with a white beard, and he would take him to the Dragon Palace, which opened his eyes.
Long-term workers made a fortune soon after meeting immortals, and their population was very prosperous.
Later generations changed the perennial cave to Tanglian Cave.
Haven't seen it all.
Niubei Island in the South China Sea is alive because it lies in the water like a strong rhinoceros, exposing its back.
Legend has it that this rhinoceros turned out to be a fairy in the sky. After the secret love of Chang 'e was discovered by the Jade Emperor, she was banished to Xiaonanhai to protect the water and soil here.
When it came to the earth, it missed Chang 'e in the sky very much, so it put in front of it the mirror of the moon that it secretly hid when it went down to the earth, staring at it, and Chang 'e appeared in the mirror every Mid-Autumn Festival.
Over time, the rhinoceros fell asleep in the small South China Sea, and the moon mirror became the present moon castle.