Guang'an Dragon Gate Array no. 85

Two. The scenery is in the hands of the past

Black Dragon Quiet Cave - Black Dragon Cave of Huaying Mountain Grand Canyon

Located in Ganba Township, Linshui County, the Huaying Mountain Grand Canyon is a fault line between The Gaodeng Creek and karst landforms, formed after tens of millions of years of erosion, with an area of about 15 square kilometers. The whole canyon is meandering and steep. Flying waterfalls, caves, lush forests, bamboo cultivation and all kinds of strange rocks, colorful peaks constitute the magnificent wonders of the Grand Canyon. The tens of kilometers of Ba tribe and the battle site of the Huaying Mountain guerrillas are quite unique cultural and natural wonders, which are fascinating.

The waterfalls distributed in the valley of several kilometers are most famous for Wangyue Waterfall, YixianTian Waterfall, Tianxindong Waterfall and Sujiayan Waterfall. The caves of the Grand Canyon are everywhere, such as the Black Dragon Cave, the Yellow Dragon Cave, the Heavenly King Cave, the Tianxin Cave, the Piercing Heart Cave, etc., which are not only strange and exotic, thrilling, but also legendary stories, unforgettable. The author recorded a dragon gate array in the Black Dragon Cave for the benefit of the reader.

Legend has it that many years ago, the Dragon Palace of the Dragon King of the West Sea was still in Guang'an, and the Crystal Palace where he lived was located under the canal river beside the Mingyue Field. The Dragon King Whale had married many wives, and of course gave birth to many dragons. When his ninth young wife gave birth to a son, because of fear in his heart, he named the prince Helong. I don't know if she did something bad or had a ghost in her heart, so she hid in the deep palace all day holding her son Helong and not coming out, she gradually became bloated, and her son Helong also turned black. This day the Dragon King went to her palace and found that she had changed her form and was immediately disgusted. In the eyes of the Dragon King, due to the change of the Dragon Princess, the Dragon King felt that even the Dragon Zi looked ugly. Therefore, the Dragon King thought that this was a disgrace to him, so he beat them into the Cold Palace. Soon, Helong's mother died of depression, and he became a lonely dragon that no one loved, and his personality became cold and brutal, and he gradually became an unpopular person, changing his name to Black Dragon.

Although the Black Dragon was despised by the people above and below the Dragon Palace, he was a dragon after all, and the shrimp soldiers and crabs would not dare to do anything to him. The Black Dragon grew up under the white eyes of others and practiced a good kung fu in venting.

The loneliness of the black dragon has one person sympathetic, that is, the shrimp girl, the young daughter of the shrimp general. On this day, the kind-hearted shrimp girl saw the black dragon lying alone under the coral tree, picking up the shell and throwing it aimlessly at the coral tree, with a little tear in the corner of her eye. She stepped forward, took out a hand towel and gently rubbed the eyes of the black dragon, while holding it, she said, "Brother Black Dragon, I know that you are very lonely, no one wants to be friends with you, if you are not annoying, I am willing to be with you every day." The black dragon sat up violently, grabbed her hand and asked, "Is what you say true?" The shrimp girl nodded.

As soon as the black dragon was happy, he squeezed the shrimp woman's hand tightly, and the pain caused her to open her mouth and breathe heavily. The black dragon saw her face change suddenly and asked her what was wrong? The shrimp woman shook her head, the black dragon only released her hand, the shrimp woman raised her hand to look at it, almost broke the bones of her hand, the black dragon pulled her hand over, put it to her mouth and blew it, saying: "Blame me for being happy for a while, pinching your hand hurts." The shrimp girl saw the black dragon's attitude and said with disgust, "Your strength is so great that you broke my hand, and no one will come to you to rub your eyes." Since then, the shrimp woman has insisted on playing with the black dragon no matter what others say and think, and the two have become inseparable good friends.

The news of the shrimp girl's friendship with the black dragon soon reached the ears of the shrimp general, and he called his daughter to the front and said: "Shrimp girl, you have to think well, the black dragon prince is discriminated against by everyone, if you insist on it, you will lose a lot of friends." The shrimp girl said, "Brother Black Dragon is not bad in heart, but he has a strange personality because of loneliness." As long as I'm with him, he'll be fine. But the Dragon King Whale Tong was different, he asked someone to find the black dragon and warned, "You are not allowed to fool around with the shrimp girl privately, if you break the rules of the Dragon Palace like this again, I will not spare you!" ”

At that time, the West Sea had not yet become the Sichuan Basin. The black dragon was not welcome in the palace, and was reprimanded by his father, which provoked his resistance, and he simply swam with the shrimp girl to play outside the palace. On this day, they swam to a canyon in Huaying Mountain, which was still sunken in the water, and saw a groundwater undercurrent, constantly swirling in the valley. The shrimp woman let the black dragon lie down, and her hands kept moving the running water and rushing towards the black dragon's body. She said, "Brother Black Dragon, your original body was not black, because you did not insist on washing your body." This water will wash away the black filth from your body and restore you to your original appearance. The black dragon was very happy to hear this, and grabbed the shrimp woman's hand and asked, "Really?" If that were the case, I would come here every day to wash myself. The shrimp woman said, "Really, as long as you insist on washing, I will accompany you every day." The two were having fun here hand in hand, not wanting any shrimp soldiers to come and report that the Dragon King knew that they had left the palace without permission, and had become angry, and told the Black Dragon to hurry back, otherwise he would be punished.

Black Dragon listened to the shrimp soldier's report and said lazily, "Punish it, I don't know how much punishment I have suffered." The shrimp girl advised, "Brother Black Dragon, don't go against the Dragon King, you are his son, forgive the old man." The black dragon listened to the shrimp woman's words, nodded her head, and said, "I listen to you, let's go!" "Before they could get up, they felt like they were falling apart and they didn't know anything. It turned out that the earth's crust changed, and the West Sea collapsed and became the later Sichuan Basin. Huaying Mountain only then appeared.

Legend has it that the Black Dragon and the Shrimp Woman were crushed at the foot of Huaying Mountain, right in the Black Dragon Cave. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself. The route I tell you, first to the middle of the Huaying Mountain Grand Canyon, drill into the narrow mouth of the Black Dragon Cave, walk dozens of steps inside, you have a feeling of sudden enlightenment, what appears in front of your eyes is: the cave roof, the cave wall of the stalactites hanging, stalagmites, different postures. The rushing stream draws you forward. Wading through the water, there was a huge stone lying in front of it, and the flowing water passed by the stone, as if to see the stone rolling. It was the big stone that the black dragon was lying on, and the water underground was constantly washing. And the stone lying next to him like a lion was his good friend Shrimp Girl, waiting for him to wash his body!

Standing in front of the flowing water of the black dragon's body, seeing that the black dragon has changed its personality after millions of years of washing, no longer floating, has long been lying quietly in the cave, you will feel relieved, and it will make people think of the pure love of the shrimp woman and the black dragon, as well as their whispers, and the eternal spirit that persists to this day, as well as all kinds of revelations for you.

Because there is a black dragon washing in the cave, it is called the Black Dragon Cave. (Dictated by Xu Tianquan, originally published in Guang'an Dragon Gate Array published by China Culture Publishing House in 2012)