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The Story of Aojiao Stone
The mythical scorpion stone, Tianzhushan ginseng, tea tree essence
Every Aojiao stone person grew up listening to the older generation telling the myths and stories handed down from generation to generation. When I was a child, I was fascinated by it, and naively believed it; when I grew up, I found it funny, but there is a kind of unspeakable faith in it.
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Sapphire stone
Aojiao Stone is a flying stone with a height of 5 meters. It stands firmly on a huge bedrock, and its shape is similar to the cooking utensils for pancakes in the countryside before the 1970s, so it is called the stone. The top of the stone is flat, the abdomen is hollow, there is a large space between the three feet, the middle is nearly 2 meters high, and the periphery is slightly lower, which can accommodate 30 people. In the scorching summer, the scorching sun and the cool breeze in the cave are very comfortable. The villagers often stay in it to enjoy the shade, play poker, and play chess (the chessboard is artificially engraved). 600 years ago, the ancestors surnamed Li moved to this place. They believed that it was a treasure land of feng shui and built a village next to the stone, so the village was named after the stone, and it was called Huizishi Village, which later evolved into Aojiao Stone Village.
In ancient times, people's scientific knowledge was not popular, let alone the ice age. The origin of this kind of rootless stone such as scorpion stone is not clear, and it is believed that it came from other places, so it is commonly called "flying stone". As for how and where it came from, it is unclear and unclear. Over time, with imaginings, a variety of conjectures and legends have emerged. One of the legends is that in those days, Sun Wukong broke into Yaochi privately, stole a peach feast, and made a scene in the Heavenly Palace, causing the Heavenly Court Palace to collapse, destroying all the utensils, and turning over the horses. Fall into the room. Among them, Shouzi and Baoding happened to fall on Tianzhu Mountain, which is the closest to the heaven, and rolled down the mountain and flat ground. Baoding fell on the top of Baoding Palace, and the petrochemical became Baoding Palace. The golden scorpion rolled down the mountain and petrified into scorpion stone, so the tripod and scorpion became the treasures of Tianzhu Mountain. Later, Sun Wukong was crushed on the Five Elements Mountain, and the Jade Emperor reset the "Antian Conference" to restore the order of the heavenly court. The Queen Mother was worried that the treasure would be destroyed, so she sent Donghai Shenao to Tianzhu Mountain to guard the treasure and guard Tianzhu Mountain. Today, there is a lonely mountain in the southwest of Baoding Palace, which is independent and looks like a giant ao. Legend has it that it is the incarnation of Shenao who guards Baoding and Jinhao, and the mountain is named after it.
With its peculiar shape and many legends attached to it, it is very famous in Aoshanwei and Jimo County, and has always been the geographical indication of Aojiao Stone Village. Regrettably, in the autumn of 1966, individual cadres of the Jimo County Party Committee's Working Group in Aojiao Shi Village were influenced by the social trend of "breaking the four olds" and believed that the stone also belonged to the category of the "four olds", and ordered that the stone be used with explosives. blow up. The masons in the village drilled a deep hole on the top of the scorpion stone, filled it with explosives, and a cannon rang out. A house was built on the original site of the stone. Since then, the stone has become a story in the memory of the village of Aojiaoshi.
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Tianzhu Mountain Ginseng
There are many legends and stories about Tianzhu Mountain, and there are also widely circulated stories of ginseng dolls. According to the legends of local villagers from generation to generation: there is a thousand-year-old ginseng tree on Tianzhu Mountain, which has become a fine, and often turns into a small doll to play and walk on the mountain. People say that whoever has the fate to get a ginseng doll will become an immortal after eating it, and will live forever. Therefore, many locals and foreigners come to Tianzhu Mountain to find ginseng dolls.
It is said that one day, a fishing boat in the coastal village in front of Tianzhu Mountain went out to sea to fish. Not far from the boat, the boat boss looked back at Tianzhu Mountain to locate the fishing boat. Why use Tianzhu Mountain to determine the course? It turned out that there was little knowledge of navigation in ancient times, and the fishing boats were poorly equipped. When local fishermen worked at sea, they used Tianzhu Mountain as a navigation mark for departure and return. If you come back from the far sea and can't find your way home, you will do everything possible to find Tianzhu Mountain, which is "a lonely peak and looks like a Chinese watch". As long as you see Tianzhu Mountain, you can feel relieved and say, "We're coming home, back to Aoshanwei in Jimo!" On this day, the boat boss used to look back at Tianzhu Mountain and prepare to locate the fishing boat. Suddenly I found a small red dot on top of Tianzhu Mountain, jumping up and down the mountain. Looking closely, it looks like a little girl in red clothes, red pants and red shoes is playing on the mountain. He immediately thought of the story of the Tianzhu Mountain ginseng doll, and immediately called up his companions on the boat and asked everyone to watch it together. They all said that it was a little girl in red. "Oh, it must be the ginseng that has become refined and turned into a little girl. Let's go and catch it. If we catch it, we will get rich!" The captain of the boat gave an order: "Turn around and row back!" Everyone stared at Tianzhu. The little girl in the mountain rowed desperately to the shore. After landing, the captain of the ship sent a few crew members ashore and ran non-stop to Tianzhu Mountain. At the bottom of Tianzhu Mountain, I climbed to the place where the little girl appeared. Several people climbed up and down the mountain, looking for the little girl everywhere, but they did not find this little girl after climbing Tianzhu Mountain. The people on the boat saw with their own eyes the people on the mountain standing beside the girl in red, but they didn't find it. In the end, he had to go down the mountain in despair. Since then, the legend of Tianzhu Mountain ginseng has spread farther and farther, attracting people from all over the world to look for it, but they have not caught this ginseng essence. Like the stories of 72 stone mortars in Tianzhu Mountain, the story of ginseng in Tianzhu Mountain has become one of the many unsolved mysteries of Tianzhu Mountain, attracting many residents and tourists.
There is another version of the ginseng story about Tianzhu Mountain. In the past, there was a ginseng tree on Tianzhu Mountain that became essence, and it often appeared on the mountain, but normal people could not see it. At that time, there was a Biao (stupid) boy in Aojiaoshi Village who was young and often went to Tianzhu Mountain to collect grass and chop wood. One day, when Xiao Biaozi climbed the top of the mountain, he saw a beautiful woman milling rice on a big mill. Xiao Biaozi watched for a while, then walked up and said that he wanted to beg for saliva. The woman said, "Okay, wait a minute, I'll get you water!" In a blink of an eye, the woman and Shi Nianzi were gone. Xiao Biaozi felt very strange, so he went down the mountain and went home while muttering. When I came back, I was still muttering and talking. The parents felt very strange and asked him what he was muttering. He told the adults in the family: I saw a woman milling rice, but I couldn't find it after a while, and I couldn't drink water. The adults in the family said, "Oh! That woman is a ginseng! Why didn't you catch her? If you catch this woman, there will always be rice in the house."
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tea tree essence
According to legend, there is an old tea tree on Tianzhu Mountain. The tree is thousands of years old. It has been cultivated for many years and has become refined. Tea trees grow in the crevices of the cliffs on the side of Tianzhu Mountain, twenty or thirty meters away from the top of the mountain. It is said that the fresh leaves of the old tea tree can cure all kinds of diseases. After drinking the tea water, it can not only cure diseases and strengthen the body, but also prolong life and prolong life. Therefore, I do not know how many people have been attracted to Tianzhu Mountain in search of tea trees. But this refined tea tree is ever-changing from time to time, from time to time. From a distance, the tea tree is on the cliff at the top of the mountain, but if you look closely, there is no trace of it. Therefore, there have been many people who tried to climb the cliffs to find trees and pick tea, but failed.
One year, a southerner was passing by the East China Sea by boat. From a distance, he saw a tea tree covered with pavilions on Tianzhu Mountain. It looked like a precious tea tree. The southerners were overjoyed, and immediately turned the boatman around, deliberately disembarked from Aoshanweihaikou, and headed straight for Tianzhu Mountain. But the strange thing is that when he came to the east slope of Tianzhu, he suddenly found that the tea tree was gone. The man was very puzzled, and he was looking at it carefully. While looking around, an old man walked up to him with a dung basket and asked, "What are you looking at, my guest?" The southerner replied, "I see there is a tea tree on the mountain, why? gone?"
The old man said: "You are dazzled, how can there be any tea trees? Let's go!" After speaking, the old man disappeared in a blink of an eye.
The southerners looked left and right on the spot, but after looking for a long time, they still could not find the tea tree, so they had to find the original way back to the boat in dejection. When he stood on the boat and looked up at Tianzhu Mountain, the tea tree was clearly still on the mountain, still so green and lush. The southerners thought about it for a while, and then suddenly realized: Ah! The old man who picked up the dung just now must have manifested the tea tree spirit. He gave up the idea of picking tea leaves and silently sailed away from Aoshanwei and Tianzhu Mountain.
Why do tea tree spirits miss Tianzhu Mountain? Because Tianzhu Mountain is towering and unique among the mountains, it is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east and Laoshan in the south. It is the soil and water environment of Tianzhu Mountain that nurtured this thousand-year-old tea tree, which made it grow from a seedling to a thousand-year-old tea tree, and then after hardships and cultivation, it finally became a refined fairy. However, the tea tree spirit did not forget the kindness of Tianzhu Mountain's upbringing. After becoming a fairy, he still stayed in Tianzhu Mountain to protect this pure land. The story of tea tree spirit also spread.
"The past is more than a thousand years old", the world is new again. Looking at the foot of Tianzhu Mountain, there are tea gardens scattered all over the land of Aojiao Stone, lush and thriving. The tea culture of Tianzhu Mountain has written a new poem.
What do you think of the three short stories today? Maybe everyone knows that these myths and stories are all exaggerated, and they are myths in the spread. But what about that? That is the belief of the people of Aojiaoshi, that is their yearning for a better life, and it also represents the beautiful scenery of Aojiaoshi and the simplicity and kindness of the people. One side of the water and soil nurtures the other side's lovely people, and Aofu is also nourished by the green mountains and green waters. I also want to know more interesting mythological stories and pay more attention to the public account of Aofu.
