Legend has it that once upon a time there was a beautiful Li family girl named Ganwa. At the age of twelve, she can twist yarn and weave brocade, at the age of thirteen she can cut mountains and plant mountain orchids, and at fifteen years old she can sing and dance. The villagers called her a good girl of the Li family.
Ganwa grew up and quietly fell in love with a young hunter. But her mother accepted the dowry behind her back and promised her to a man she had never met.
The day after Ganwa married into her husband's family, her mother-in-law asked her to scoop rice. Ganwa suddenly smelled a bad smell, stopped the rice pestle and asked, "Mom, what is so smelly?" The mother-in-law said, "The chicken died under the bed." Ganwa believed it to be true and continued to scoop rice. But there was a dead chicken under the bed, so why not take it off? She stopped the pestle again and asked her mother-in-law, "Mom, what is the smell?" ”
The mother-in-law said, "It was a dog who died at the gate." But when Ganwa arrived at the gate, she saw nothing, but the stench was still coming. So I asked my mother-in-law again. The mother-in-law said, "It is the stinky sauerkraut that has been pickled at home." Ganwa shook her head in disbelief, and her mother-in-law had to say things directly: "After eating betel nuts, I have set up relatives, and when I pass through the door of my in-laws' house, I am a person from my in-laws' family." Let me be honest, your husband has a sore on his back, and the stench is coming from him. Ganwa listened to her mother-in-law and immediately ran to the house to take a look, and sure enough, there was a skinny man lying on the bed, and he had a big poisonous sore on his back. Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Ganwa didn't say a word, took off her turban, and ran back to her mother's house.
Ganwa returned to her mother's house and asked her parents to return the dowry and end the marriage. Where her parents listened, they insisted on forcing her to return to her in-laws' house, and Ganwa did not follow her death.
One day, Ganwa came home chopping firewood and heard her parents and brother-in-law whispering something in the house, and then they suddenly came out of the house, caught her, stuffed her into a pig cage, and threw her next to the water tank. Ganwa cried and cried, and no one paid any attention to her. Only her little sister hid under the eaves and wept secretly.
Ganwa was put in a pig cage, and her parents and brother-in-law forced her to return to her in-laws' house, but she still did not agree. They didn't give her water to drink, and they spilled dishwashing water on her, abusing her in every way. One day, Ganwa saw a group of birds in the big tree outside the house, singing happily, flying around freely, and she thought: People are not as good as birds! If only I could turn into a bird myself. On this day, her parents went up to the mountain to work, her brother went to pick salt, and her sister-in-law was confinement, leaving only one little sister in the family. Ganwa then quietly said to her sister, "Good sister, you find a sickle for me, so that I can cut off the rope of the pig cage and come out to find something to eat." "The sister found the sickle, cut the rope, and released the sister.
After Ganwa came out, she took off her hand cockles, collars, and earrings and smashed them in the rice mortar, then poured them into a pot, boiled them into a paste with fire, and then stuck them bit by bit under the sides of the two armparts, and then roasted them dry on the stove with a firework. After a while, ganwa's arms grew two wings. When Sister A saw that her sister was about to turn into a bird, she was shocked and scared, and cried loudly. Ganwa said, "Good sister, don't cry, sister's life is bitter, her parents are cruel, and her brother and sister-in-law are cruel, marry sister to a man with poisonous sores." My sister refused to marry, and they treated me like a pig and a dog, and my sister didn't change birds, so how could I live? It is better to become a bird than to be a person, birds can fly in the sky, can eat in the forest, and can also fly every day to sing and laugh with A-mei! Ah Mei listened and cried even more sadly. Ganwa kissed Ah Mei for a moment, and then she spread her wings and practiced flying.
Ganwa spread her wings at home and practiced flying, making a "popping" sound, and her sister-in-law heard the noise and asked the little sister: "Something is touching in the house!" Ah Mei replied, "It is the hen who jumps into the nest to lay the egg." When my sister-in-law heard this, she believed it to be true, so she didn't ask any more questions. Ganwa flew and flew, and her wings were firm and hard, so she said goodbye to her little sister and flew out of the house "poof", standing on the roof, constantly crying:
"Gangong! Gangong! ”
The sister-in-law heard the birds calling, walked out of the door to see that Ganwa had turned into a bird, was shocked, and asked: "Auntie, why do you want to change into a bird?" Talk slowly! Ganwa replied, "None of you will listen to my words." What else is there to say. ”
Saying that, she flew away with "Gangong" and "Gangong". Ganwa flew up the hill and came to her parents' mountain orchid garden. Her parents saw their daughter turn into a bird and said, "My son, why are you turning into a bird?" What can I say to my parents! Ganwa said, "You are fierce people, what else can you say to you now?" Saying that, he spread his wings and flew high.
Ganwa flew all the way to the tree in front of the lover's hunter's house. Just happened to meet her lover carrying water home, she said: "Brother, brother, I'm sorry for you." My cruel parents insisted that I marry a man with sores on his back and pus on the soles of his feet; if I didn't, they locked me up in a pig cage. I don't become a bird, I can't live. With that, Ganwa flew down from the tree, plucked a beautiful feather and gave it to her lover, and said goodbye to him.
After Ganwa left her lover, she flew to the wide blue sky, flew to the reckless Lin Hai, and flew all the way to the Seven Finger Ridge. Since then, the cries of "Gangong" and "Gangong" can be continuously heard under the Seven Finger Ridge.