The story of Pauline Lamp

Once upon a time, there was a scholar named Liu Yanchang (also known as Liu Xiang, the character Yanchang), who passed through Mount Hua while rushing to beijing to take the exam. There is a temple on Mount Hua. The Three Notre Dames (also known as the Three Niangs of the Flower Moon) is the niece of the Jade Emperor and the sister of the erlang god. She is beautiful, kind and affectionate, and has been living a lonely life since she was sent to Mount Hua by the Empress. One day, she was singing and dancing in the temple, killing time, when she suddenly found a scholar walking through the door of the temple. She hurriedly ascended to the lotus throne and turned into a statue. Liu Xiang, who entered the main hall, saw the statue of the Third Lady at a glance, beautiful, gentle and comfortable. Liu Xiang was deeply attracted and thought how happy he would be if he could be his wife! Unfortunately, this is just a statue without emotional awareness. With deep regret, Liu Xiang could not suppress the excitement in his heart, took out his pen and ink, and expressed his love for the third lady on the wall.

Sanniang watched all this silently, and her heart couldn't help but have mixed feelings. How handsome and charming this scholar was, and his literary prowess was extraordinary. He was filled with deep affection for himself and was not deeply attracted to him or in love with him. However, one is an upper-class fairy and the other is a lower-class mortal. How can I get married? Disappointed and unwilling to leave, Liu Xiang could no longer be calm. After much deliberation, she finally decided to marry Liu Xiang despite Tiantiao. As a result, Sanniang became a folk woman, caught up with Liu Xiang, and told him the truth. Since then, the two of them have fallen in love, and they have become a couple with great love. When Liu Xiang's examination period approached and Sanniang became pregnant, Liu Xiang gave Sanniang a piece of ancestral agarwood, saying that future children could be named "agarwood". The two sent each other for eighteen miles, inseparable.

Liu Xiang was given a list in Beijing and was appointed inspector of yangzhou. As soon as she took office, Hua Yue Sanniang was in trouble. It turned out that at this time, it was the birthday of the empress, and a peach party was held in the Heavenly Palace. All the gods and immortals came to the party to celebrate their birthdays, but the third lady was pregnant, refused to get sick, and stayed in Mount Hua. Who knows, the truth was known to Sanniang's brother Erlang Shen. Erlang Shen was furious and blamed his sister for marrying a mortal privately, violating the Heavenly Dao, and arresting her and punishing her in heaven. The third lady is upright and fearless. In addition, she also has a treasure given by the Empress Dowager, the Lotus Lantern, which is the treasure of SanniangZhenshan. No matter which demon or which immortal, as long as the Pauline Lamp shines brightly, it will be overwhelmed by awe and surrender. Erlang Shen knew that he was lost, so he asked his dog to steal the lotus lamp while Sanniang was resting. In this way, poor Third Lady was crushed by the Erlang God in the black cloud cave under Mount Hua. The third lady gave birth to her son Agarwood in a dark cave. Afraid that in case of any accident, she secretly begged Ye Fork to send her son to Yangzhou to be with her father Liu Xiang.

When Agarwood grew up, he gradually became sensible. Knowing that his mother was suffering under Mount Hua, he wanted to save his mother Sanniang. He told his father about the idea, but Liu Xiang was only a weak scholar who could only sigh and shake his head. So Shen Xiang left home alone to find her mother. He went through all kinds of hardships and finally reached Mount Hua. But where is the mother? The eight-year-old boy was overwhelmed and suddenly burst into tears. A mournful cry of pain echoed through the empty valley, alarming the thunderbolt fairy who passed by. The kind immortal, who asks the root of the matter, is deeply kind to the three ladies and the children of bad karma, but he is helpless. So he returned to his cave house with agarwood. Under the guidance of Daxian, Shen Xiang studied hard and seriously, and gradually learned the six major tactics, three major strategies, various martial arts and seventy-three changes. On her sixteenth birthday, Shen Xiang bid farewell to master and went to Mount Hua to save her mother. The great immortal, who had no ambition, gave him an axe and told him to spread flowers and open the mountain.

Agarwood walked in the clouds and came to the Black Cloud Cave in Mount Hua. He called out to his mother loudly, and the sound penetrated many rocks and reached the ears of the three maidens. Third Niang couldn't help but feel good, and she felt everything in her heart. When she learned that her son had grown up and had saved herself filially, she was so excited that she called Agarwood into the cave. Sanniang knew that her brother Erlang was magical, and Sun Wukong, who was making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, was defeated by him. Agarwood is still young. Besides, Jiro stole the lotus lamp. How could his son be his opponent? Therefore, the third lady asked Chen Xiang to intercede with her uncle.

Agarwood flew to the Erlang Temple and pleaded with the erlang god. Who knew that erlang god had an iron heart, and not only refused to let go of the third lady, but instead danced a three-pointed and two-edged knife to attack Agarwood. Shen Xiang was furious and felt that Erlang Was cruel, so she raised her axe and fought with him. Two people in the fog, knives and axes, mountains and water, dragons and fish; killing from heaven to the ground, and then killing from the ground back to the heavenly palace; it is shaking, turning the river to the sea, and the sky is very dark. This incident alarmed taibai venus, and sent four immortals to investigate. Xian Gu looked in the clouds for a while and felt that the Erlang God, as an uncle, was too cruel and ruthless to a child. So they made eye contact with each other and secretly helped Agarwood. Agarwood became more and more brave, and the Vietnam War God Erlang could no longer stand it, so he had to flee into the wilderness, and finally the lotus lamp returned to Agarwood's hands.

Shen Xiang immediately flew back to Mount Hua, raised the Xuanhua Shenshan axe, and slashed it with force. I heard a "boom", a great tremor, and Huashan cracked. Agarwood quickly found the Dark Cloud Cave and rescued her mother. It took sixteen years for the Third Lady, who had endured hardships, to see the light of day again. She hugged her son tightly, with mixed feelings and tears.

Later, the erlang god made a mistake against Sanniang and Agarwood, who was also granted immortal status by the Jade Emperor. Since then, Sanniang, Liu Xiang and their heroic son Shen Xiang have been reunited, and the family has lived happily together.

The story is full of myths and expresses the value of family, friendship and love.