Zhang Jie/Collecting and Sorting
Part 14 "Stone Dry Old"
On the slope of Hejiagou behind Baofeng Mountain, a large-scale garden farm was built decades ago. Halfway up the hill behind the garden yard, there was a separate house large with a stone. This stone, people who have been old for many generations in Baofeng are called "stone dry old". Until the eve of the "Cultural Revolution", every New Year's Day, someone would always paste a big red couplet on the stone dry old, burn incense after burning, and prostrate. What's so special about it here?
In that year, Taibai Venus pulled Fuxi Nuwa to the top of Baofeng Mountain and persuaded the two brothers and sisters to marry, but the two brothers and sisters did not agree. Taibai Venus said to see how Providence was, so he separated a pair of small stone mills into two fans and rolled down the mountain. The rolling stone mill closes the original appearance of the upper and lower fans, which means that it is the union of Providence, so that the brothers and sisters of Fuxi Nuwa are married. When two small stone mills rolled down from the top of Baofeng Mountain, it happened to be the big stone behind the garden, and as soon as the force burst back, two small stone mills rolled separately were closed; it promoted the marriage of the brothers and sisters of Fuxi Nuwa. Left behind a good story in the world.
Later, the Baofeng people said that the big stone was a spirit stone, a symbol of beauty and auspiciousness. Many people give birth to children, so they carry the children to worship the big stone and give it to the big stone as a dry son. Everyone you also go to worship the old man, and I also go to worship the old man, and I call the stone the stone dry old. The purpose of worshiping the old man is to pray for the child's good health, a happy marriage when he becomes an adult, and the marriage between husband and wife is as cordial as brothers and sisters. It is said that those who worshiped the old man with the stone were later satisfied.
No. 15 "Wah Field"
In the east of Baofeng Town, on a mountain beam stretching south of Nüwa Mountain, there are many village courtyards up and down, and the place name is collectively known as Huachang Village. Why is it called that? This matter still has to start with Nuwa.
In those years, after Nüwa created people with soil, she left a lot of fields on the mountain beams around Nüwa Mountain; after making up the heavens, she left a blast furnace for refining multicolored stones; when Shennong was born, he would teach the people of the world to plant crops and prosper the five grains. To plant crops and prosper the grain, you must first plough the field, but the distress is that you do not have to plough the plough.
To cast the plough, there is no existing cast iron stove. One day, Shen Nong suddenly remembered that Lady Nuwa had once built a smelting furnace in the multicolored stone refining on Nüwa Mountain, so she wanted to make it easier and save trouble, so she came to Nüwa Mountain to see if the blast furnace was still there. At first glance, the blast furnace was still intact. He gathered many people, mined iron ore, threw it into the blast furnace where Nuwa refined multicolored stones, and began to smelt iron. On the one hand, he also instructed the people to dig up the yellow man who had been a man and make a cast soil mold. The wadis were made a lot of things, and they were always placed and arranged on the flat field of the mountain beams in the south of Nüwa Mountain.
After three days and three nights of refining, the blast furnace refined the molten iron, and it was filled with a large iron scoop, poured into the mold, and when it cooled, the soil mold was opened, and it was a bright and dazzling plough. The plough was cast a lot, and it filled the mountain field for the use of farmers all over the world. People from all over the world came to buy the ploughing land, and they saw the ploughs piled up here, so the name of this place was called the ploughing field.