In the old days, Shen Lake consisted of three lakes naturally connected to Nihu Lake, Big Mandarin Duck Lake and Little Mandarin Duck Lake, which belonged to the Yunmengze Water System and was the largest primitive lake connecting Tianmen, Qiuyang and Hanchuan counties. Most of the people around Shenhu Lake migrated from the Poyang Lake Plain in Jiangxi Province, Nanchang Province, Ji'an Province and other places in the Ganjiang River Basin as a group of surname families or sporadic immigrants during the Ming Hongwu period, and migrated up the Yangtze River against the Han River. The early arrival occupies the favorable position of the high terrain and wide field, and the late arrival can only settle in the tidal flats of the lake area or the center of the lake, with the ground as the standard, and the half fish and half the farmer for a living. Why does Shenhu Lake have a beautiful name Mandarin Duck Lake, and there is a moving love story circulating in the local area ——
Once upon a time, there was a village of hundreds of families on the edge of Xiaofen Lake in the northwest of Shenhu Lake. There is a family surnamed Liu at the east end of the village, and there is a family surnamed Peng at the west end of the village. Liu surname Peng surname ancestors are immigrants from Jiangxi "old cousin", rely on the lake to eat, fish and shrimp together, cultivate the beach, take care of each other, unless the annual growth is too bad, life can be considered to be passable. There is only one thing that makes them more anxious, old Liu Lao Peng is a person in his early forties, but there is no one male and a half woman under his knees, which has become a heart disease of the two families, old Peng Lao Liu often frowns when he has a drink together, sighing. The parish guests in the house (the local housekeepers call the parishioners) burn incense at home all day long to worship the Buddha, do good deeds and accumulate virtues, and pray for the continuation of the incense of the family.
Or sincerely touched the heavens, and later Peng's wife finally gave birth to a student baby (meaning boy), named Peng Duan. Soon Liu's wife also gave birth to a "jar" (the local name for girls), named Liu Duan. The two families have been friends for generations, and old Peng Lao Liu intends to marry his children's relatives, so he asked the matchmaker to book a milk eight character (doll pro) for the two children.
Old Peng lao Liu is an old man, and he would like to hold this Peng Duan and Liu Duan in the palm of his hand, and if he doesn't see it for a moment, he will not be able to keep it. When Peng Duan and Liu Duan were about ten years old, Old Peng Lao Liu took the two children to the boat to catch fish in the lake, one was to let the children experience the life of the lakers from an early age, and the other was to increase some fun on the way, and the two children brought joy and laughter to the boring lake life. Coincidentally, as long as this Peng Duan and Liu Duan follow the boat, there are especially many fish and shrimp that are cast in the net, and the harvest is always full when they go home at night, and the old Liu Lao Peng and his cousins are naturally very happy. This Peng Mandarin Liu Duck is also a mandarin brother to the duck sister, since childhood in the lake to play, catch fish and shrimp together "drum ball" (swimming), the two green plum bamboo horses, inseparable.
In the blink of an eye, Old Peng Lao Liu was full of white hair, and the two children had grown up. Although Peng Duan is black and tasty, he is very strong, and Liu Duan's pair of small dimples are well-behaved and lovely. Peng Liu's two families saw the soldiers in chaos, and the hooligans in the lake area harassed from time to time, and discussed letting the children get married as soon as possible, so that the parents had a heart. So he asked the village's prestigious and high-ranking Dad to help preside over it, and chose an auspicious day to complete the marriage for the children.
When the auspicious day arrived, Liu Duan went to the Peng family to become a bride, and his relatives and friends all came to he xi for a lively time, and they all praised the two little mouths as a pair made in heaven and earth. The banquet was almost dispersed, and this dad walked into the new house shaking with the strength of the wine, drove away the "student dolls" and "jars" in the cave room, and then took the groom away in the name of sending guests, and then ripped off the bride's red hijab and went directly up to move his hands and feet, trying to insult the well-behaved and beautiful bride.
When this Liu Duan saw that Dad, who usually had prestige and status, actually used his hands and feet on himself, he couldn't help but be ashamed and angry, and slapped Tartar hard in the struggle. Peng Duan, who was delivering guests outside the house, heard the movement inside the house, quickly ran back to the new house, saw his trembling new wife being bullied by Dad, and couldn't help but be angry, and pressed Dad to the ground and beat him. This Dad usually has a head and a face in the village, but he walks sideways, which one can be beaten casually? Old Peng saw that his son had run into a catastrophe and hurried to apologize to Dad. Annoyed and angry, Da Dad not only did not listen, but instructed his men to injure Lao Peng's two sons. Peng Yuan, Liu Duan and his wife saw the insulted father and mother, and they were angry and wanted to fight with Dad. Daddy grabbed them and cried and begged the little two not to send them to death in vain, and asked them to quickly pack up and flee in the dark. Peng Mandarin and Liu Duan had to tearfully bid farewell to their parents and hurriedly drove a small boat to escape into the lake.
The boat had just rowed out not far away, when I saw that the lake was suddenly lit up with fire, and the killing shouts were all over. It turned out that after Dad learned that Peng Mandarin and Liu Duan and his wife had escaped in a small boat, he led his men to drive the boat with torches to arrest people. Dad's people are many, and soon surrounded the boat of Peng Duan and his wife, seeing that they could not escape, Peng Duan stared angrily at his eyes and decided to lay down a heart and fight with Dad to break the net. When the chasing ship approached, Peng Duan waved the penny on the boat and stabbed Ata, who was standing on the deck. Dad couldn't avoid it, and fell into the lake in the chest. Seeing that Dad was stabbed to death, the people behind them were in a mess, and they hurriedly released the earth and shotgun to Peng Yuan and his wife. At this time, I only heard Peng Duan shouting: "The duck is coming with me!" The newlyweds jumped into the lake hand in hand. The cry echoed through the wilderness and reverberated for a long time on the lake and in the night sky. I saw that a ball of fire suddenly rose from the place where they dived, illuminating the lake as if it were daylight, and a pair of Mandarin ducks rose from the fire and disappeared into the vast night sky in an instant.
Later, people often see a pair of Mandarin ducks circling on the lake in this area, always inseparable. Slowly, the villagers also knew that if they flew on the fishing boat, the day was sunny; if they swam around at the bow and stern, it was a rainy day. The old man in the village said that this was the father and fellow villagers who turned into Mandarin ducks to accompany and guard their hometown. In order to commemorate this pair of indomitable mandarin duck couples who cherish their homeland, the villagers called the lake area where Peng Duan and his wife lived "Mandarin Duck Lake".
According to the "Geographical Records of Tianmen County, Hubei Province", "At the edge of Shenhu Lake, in the past, Mr. Yin and Yang said that the ground here was good, and there was a pair of Mandarin ducks pressed underground, so the village was named Mandarin Duck Lake. "The name of Mandarin Duck Lake on the map north of Shenhu Lake in the jurisdiction of Ganyi Town was originally the bay platform of The Great Mandarin Duck Lake. In the early days of liberation, the fishermen of Guobu Port were moved to the Great Mandarin Duck Lake. In the 1970s, it was changed to Jiazhou New Village.
Mandarin Duck Lake was once a beautiful lake where fishing boats sang late and birds lived happily. Today's Mandarin Duck Lake has become a fertile field, leaving only a beautiful name for future generations to imagine. History is getting farther and farther away, but the beautiful love story about Mandarin Duck Lake will continue to be passed on.