According to the old man, a black dragon fell from the top of the south mountain of the Laha Mountain in Lanxi County (Shuangmiaozi) a long time ago. It is more than five hundred meters long, three meters thick, many feet long, a very large head, a very fierce appearance, more than the painting is amazing, people dare not come close to watch.
The black dragon fell from the sky, first rolling straight on the mountain, and the trees were swept away by it. It fluttered from the top of the mountain to the fields on the west side of the mountain, and the corn more than a meter high was overwhelmed by it. Within a few days, it couldn't move, its eyes wide open and panting, its roar was like a landslide, and its roar could be heard in a radius of forty or fifty miles. A white-haired Taoist priest said that this black dragon took a fancy to the feng shui of Nanshan, pressed down the clouds and hovered here for a long time and accidentally fell off the clouds, perhaps for some reason he was degraded to the dust.
It is the height of summer and May, the sun is like fire, and there is not a drop of rain for days. Ordinary people from all over the world rushed to the outside three layers from afar, watching and discussing for a long time, thinking that this thing was too strange! How many generations have never seen it in their lives, but they have heard it from nonsense, and when they meet it today, they don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse. It was a white-haired old man who reminded everyone, hurry up and rescue it! Otherwise, it will be trapped here alive! So, many men, women and children carried water from the Hulan River to the mountains and poured bucket by bucket on the black dragon. Later, people came up with an easy way to carry water up one by one from the bank of the river to the mountain. There are also some strong men who simply walk through the forest and carry water one by one. Everyone has only one wish, they must save this big black dragon.
The black dragon was moistened by the water, regained a little of its physical vitality, and kept turning, intending to regain its strength and return to the vast sky. Many people refused to go home at night, and worked together to prepare water on the mountain for emergency use in the midday heat. Since everyone watered the black dragon day by day, so that it maintained a strong vitality, it stared at the sky with anxious eyes. The sky is blue, cloudless, and the sun makes the earth burn. The seedlings are all yellow, and some of them have died one after another. This alarmed the Yamen officials at that time, and he also came to think of a way, that is, there was no high trick to make the black dragon soar!
More than twenty days have passed, and it still hasn't rained, and the situation is critical! The black dragon's body was already dry and cracked, and many maggots were born in the scales, and some scales began to fall off. The huge body lay horizontally in the field, stiffened upright, and faced death at any time. So anxious that people rushed to pull water day and night in horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts. At the same time, set up an incense case, put up many gifts of three animals, burn incense and kowtow, and beg heaven for mercy to save this poor black dragon! However, the situation continued to deteriorate, and the black dragon closed his eyes in disappointment...
On the afternoon of the twenty-sixth day, a fierce wind suddenly blew on the flat ground, and a thick black cloud swept from the southeast sky, covering the entire sky in an instant. The ground was pitch black, nothing could be seen, and in the blink of an eye it was pouring rain. The people were so frightened that they all hid in the tunzhong house, listening only to the fierce wind and rain on Mount Raha, lightning and thunder. With a few loud thunderbolts, people seemed to feel that the whole heaven and earth were trembling violently. After a while, the rain cleared. People found that the big black dragon was gone, and a cave appeared halfway up the mountain in Nanshan! Some women picked up many pieces of dragon scales from the field where the black dragon was lying and took them home to make beautiful little dustpans. Later, people said that in that earth-shaking thunderstorm, the big black dragon stood tall and erected several houses high, soaring into the sky. It circled over the Hulan River, disappeared in an instant as the thick clouds rolled northwest. The moment it left the ground, its long tail flicked violently, hitting just halfway up Nanshan.
Since then, the Black Dragon Cave has become an unsolved mystery for the people on this side, and curious people continue to enter to explore and find treasures. The lack of fingers in the cave is terrifying. Further inside, it is even more magical, with the sound of running water and birds chirping from time to time. What is even more puzzling is that there are fish jumping in the puddle inside. Later, more people entered to enjoy the strange scenery, but they didn't go far before they turned around, not daring to take the risk again. People named it Black Dragon Cave. There are many versions of the legend about it, and the more it is spread, the more wonderful and weird!
With the increase of tourists on the banks of the Hulan River, more and more people want to explore the danger of the Black Dragon Cave, and the colorful stories also depict the Black Dragon Cave more magically.
In the summer of 1985, several young people dared to drill a black dragon hole. In fact, the entrance to the cave is not very large, but the further you go inside, the more open it becomes. I don't know which kind person installed a light-absorbing device on the cave wall, and when you go inside, you can see the bright light, guiding people forward. Stones and wooden blocks and other debris stumble under the feet, the bottom of the cave is not flat, one will be uphill, one will be downhill, and the other will seem to fall into the bottom of the cave, as if falling into a dry well, which makes people's hearts tightened. Those who are afraid of accidents are all returning quickly, and there are still a few curious people who refuse to give up and have to find out.
So, we continued to move forward in depth. After walking for about ten minutes, it seemed as if I had climbed another steep slope, and I was almost about to drill out of the top of the mountain. However, before they could raise their spirits, they suddenly slipped into a deeper hole with a particularly open blister inside. They ran back in a hurry, some of their heads were broken, blood flowed, and they ran out of the mysterious black dragon cave like crazy. No one can tell how deep it is, and everyone's faces are black. Since then, the Black Dragon Cave has really become a great dangerous maze in the Nanshan Scenic Area of the Lanxi River Estuary. Until now, no one has reached its end, and its mystery has not been solved.
However, it is gratifying and rejoicing that for hundreds of years since the people here saved the black dragon, the banks of the Hulan River and at the foot of Nanshan Mountain have been reconciled by wind and rain, harvests have been bumper every year, and people have lived in peace and contentment, living a prosperous and peaceful life.