Chapter 4: Trickling Like a Song - Yanglou Longyan Spring

Yanglou Longyan Spring

At the foot of the dragon's neck mountain in Yanglou Village, Yanghe Town, 30 miles south of the ancient road, there is a spring that emerges from the stone cliff, which is clear and pure, sweet and moisturizing, and people call it "Dragon Spring", also called "Longyan Spring". When you drive along the Luoli Highway past Longyan Spring, you will often see vehicles parked by the spring, people filling plastic buckets with water, sometimes there are so many people that you have to wait in line.

Dragon's Neck Mountain is one of the great wonders of Yanghe Town, and when you come here, you can see and appreciate its peculiarities. With the Yang River as the boundary, the mountain system on the east and west sides is a steep slope alluvial shape and extends out a long mountain system respectively, looking forward to staggering, there is a great tendency to pass through the Yang River to meet together, its shape is like two dragon necks, just like the appearance of "two dragons playing in the stream", so people call this place "dragon neck".

The river goes around the two dragons' necks from top to bottom, forming two big turns. The section stretching out from Fanjia Mountain in Zhongliang is intact, while the section extending from Dongshan has a big gap in the middle, which becomes a shortcut for people to walk from Yanglou to Yanghe, and the Luoli Highway makes a big bend along the long dragon's neck. This big gap seems to be a shortcut deliberately dug up by people around the dragon's neck because it is too time-consuming, but in fact, it is a long time to say.

Since ancient times, people have believed that the place where the two waters meet, must be the feng shui treasure of "golden basin fish farming", and gather energy, wealth, and strange talents. There are two places where the two rivers meet, one is the former site of Yanghe Town, because people often dig out broken tiles, pots and pots when they plough the land, so people call this place "tile slag land". Here by the mountains and rivers, surrounded by the mountains overlapping and overlapping, the mountains are majestic, the mountains are densely forested, and there is a stream flowing down from Jiepai Mountain and the stream flowing down from the "four ditches" meet and merge, forming the Yangjia River. People call the place where the two rivers meet as the "mouth of the two rivers". Now the Luoli Highway leads to Guangyuan Village along the river in the southwest, leads to Lixian County through the Jiepaishan Tunnel, and another country road leads to Sigou through the mouth of the two rivers.

Legend has it that the tile slag is the former Yanghe Town, and during the Song Dynasty, there was a "view" here, called "Xingyang view", which is equivalent to the current township-level administrative organ (now there is no verification). The Mushu Village of Li County on the side of Jiepai Mountain also set up a view, called "Mushu View", and later changed to Mushuguan.

At that time, the Xingyang view, hidden in the green water and green water, the street is arranged in the east-west direction, the alleys run through the north and south, the arrangement is neat and orderly, the shops on the street are numerous, the merchants gather, the mule and horse market is a group of mules and horses, it has become the wharf of trade and trade on the ancient tea horse road and the Silk Road, and it is prosperous and rich.

One day coincided with the busy market day in Xingyang Town, people were busy trading goods on the street, and the street was crowded and bustling. Suddenly, there was a very disgusting beggar dressed in tatters, barefoot, bald and scarred on his head and face, holding a peach in his hand, and shuttling through the streets and alleys, shouting: "Peach one peach-" People looked ridiculous, how much can a peach be sold for just one peach? The streets are full of shouting, and if you look like that, it's disgusting to give it away for nothing.

There was a five-year-old boy on the street, constantly shouting to his grandfather: "Hurry up, grandpa hurry up and leave I'm scared." "Grandpa felt that it was very big, there were so many people on the street during the day, what was there to be afraid of? But the grandson shouted vigorously, and his grandfather couldn't be stubborn, so he had to carry his grandson behind his back and leave the lively Xingyang Temple.

After noon, a black wind rolled up in the back mountain of the unusually prosperous and lively town, and then "boom, boom" several earth-shattering loud sounds, when people were shocked and did not know what to do, the collapsed back mountain went straight to the town, and in the blink of an eye, the people and livestock on the whole town and the street were buried in it, and the only one who survived was the pair of grandchildren.

In fact, it was a major earthquake that occurred during the Song Dynasty. But at that time, science was not developed, and people did not understand that it was the work of nature. Legend has it that there is a big pool on the top of the mountain behind the East Mountain, the pool water is jet black, and there is a big black python that hides a big vat, which is as thick as a large tank, and later ran to Mount Emei, Sichuan to practice for hundreds of years, and the magic power is more extensive. One day, the Taoist priest of Emei found that the python that was cultivating suddenly escaped. Chasing it all the way, it was about to be caught up by the Taoist priest who was obsessed with the demon sword, and in a hurry, it swept to the mountain with a tail, swept the front mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and buried the entire Xingyang Temple. Seeing that there was no way to escape, it had no choice but to burrow into its old nest of black water and hide. The old Taoist priest arrived, and put a fire charm into the black water pool, and suddenly the black pool boiled, and the vicious python was burned to death in the weir, and the water in the weir was also burned dry by the fire charm, and the demon snake in the black water pool ceased to exist.

The bustling Yanghe Temple did not exist in an instant, and at the intersection of the two rivers downstream of the Xingyang Temple, that is, the Yangjialou, where a stream gushing out of the Hemp Canyon and the two waters of the Yang River meet. There are two dragons guarding the pass in the east and west mountains. Discussed with each other and said, "Now that the Xingyang Temple is gone, let's do something big together." Blessing the local area. The two of us intersected from the east and west, intercepting the water of the Yang River and blocking the wind veins. Don't let the wind veins flow far away, let this become an ocean, and it will definitely become a treasure of feng shui. ”

Just as the two dragons were about to meet when they descended the mountain, Liu Bowen, who happened to be beheaded by Zhu Yuanzhang's holy decree, arrived in time, and he shouted: "Wait for your death quickly, I will cut off the dragon veins in the world by the holy decree of the Son of Tomorrow." Then he raised his sword and slashed at the neck of a female dragon that came down from the east mountain. Suddenly blood splattered. A large gap appeared in the dragon's neck, and the female dragon could no longer move. Desperately glanced at the male dragon opposite, big tears flowed out of the dragon's eyes, and the male dragon on the opposite side looked at the scene in front of him, and in a hurry, he collapsed in place, and closed his eyes in despair. The next day, Liu Bowen thought that the female dragon was also dead, but he didn't expect that at night, the female dragon borrowed the aura of the Heaven and Earth Mountain Range to restore the wound, the neck was intact, and the blood on the ground was invisible. Liu Bowen felt very strange. I have cut down so many dragon veins in the world, and there is such a strange phenomenon. So he slashed at the female dragon's neck several times. Suddenly, the flesh and blood on the female dragon's neck blurred, and the painful female dragon shed tears of sadness and pleading again, and closed her eyes. Liu Bowen wants to go to sleep when you die today.

Wait until dawn on the third day, after preparing to examine the dragon corpse, and make sure that it is completely dead, before preparing to leave with confidence. But on the third day, Liu Bowen was a little relieved. When he rushed to the female dragon again, it was still intact, so he was furious, and he cut ten meters of sword in a row, and when the dragon's neck and dragon body were completely cut in two, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the first two times were not completely cut, and the flesh was connected, and this time it was done cleanly and neatly, so that its body was different, and it was able to grow again.

Who knew that on the fourth day, when Liu Bowen went to check with confidence, the female dragon was still intact. So Liu Bowen had a plan, I will keep cutting day and night to see how you recover. So he slashed dozens of swords in a row, so that the dragon's neck and body were completely severed and then left. At night, while the female dragon was recovering from her wounds, he suddenly drew his sword and slashed dozens of swords in a row, completely separating the dragon's neck from the dragon's body, and then left. By the fifth day, the dragon's neck and body had been cut in two, and the ground was stained red with blood. The female dragon never recovered, and tears kept streaming from her eyes.

Later, people used to pick up dragon bones at the gap in the dragon's neck, and legend has it that people in the family went to pick up some and put them at home, which had the effect of driving away evil spirits. According to Chen Yaohui, the former director of the Yanghe Town Police Station, he recalled: "When he was a child, he also picked up a few keels here, and the so-called keels were actually fossils of some kind of animal. Medicine has a calming and astringent effect, and superstition is used to calm the land and calm evil. Later, when people picked up a lot, the "keel" was picked up, and some people tried to dig through the gap, but nothing came out.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a drought in the Yanghe area, and the water everywhere dried up, people and animals had no water to drink, and the crops were scorched and died. Suddenly, a clear spring of water appeared from the cliff at the dragon's neck, and people excitedly told each other: "The dragon has appeared. The dragon has appeared, and we have been saved..."So people rushed to fetch water from the spring and water the fields with the spring water, saving the lives of people and livestock. People call this spring the Dragon Spring or the Dragon's Eye Spring. Ancestors have drunk this dragon spring for generations. It is said that drinking this spring water not only ward off evil spirits, calm the nerves, but also ward off diseases.

Now, in addition to the locals drinking Longquan water, even people passing by from other places are also admiring it to take home to drink tea. It is said that the water boiled in this spring is pure, and there is no limescale left in the teapot, and the tea boiled is particularly fragrant and delicious. Because it's right next to the Lori Highway, it's convenient, and as long as you have the opportunity to pass by, bring a vessel to hold water, and your wishes will be fulfilled.

It's a long river. Ancient and magical legends cannot be annihilated; The years have passed. can't cover the magnificence of Shuanglong covering the stream; Times have changed, and the water of Longquan is still bubbling and flowing. (Contributed by Zhao Fu)

Source: Wushan County Rong Media Center