There is a Ziluo Mountain in Ruyang County . Ziluo Mountain is sincere, simple, substantial, selfless and dedicated. It is mysterious and comes from ancient times and affects one generation after another. No matter how the time tunnel stretches through, Ziluoshan still fulfills its duties, is honest and stable, remains unchanged forever, and uses time to record the richness and variety of the world. Opening the historical records of Ziluo Mountain, every page is thought-provoking. If you don’t believe me, just open the chapter about Ziluo Woodcutter, it will make you read.
During the years of the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Ren in Ziluo Mountain. His name was Xidao. He lived outside Ziluo City in Ziluo Mountain. Because he made a living by collecting firewood and knew medicine and divination, he called himself Ziluo Woodcutter.
Ren Xidao wears a blue scarf and brown clothes. He often carries a pole with a juzi rope on the end of the pole and travels through Ziluo Mountain. Although Ren Xidao is dressed as a woodcutter, he has a handsome face and a fairy-like spirit. Because he came and went without a trace and predicted events like a god, the people in the village respectfully called him a master of the Xian family.
There was a scholar named Liu Qian who lived with relatives in Ziluo Mountain to study. During the Changqing period, he passed the Jinshi examination. Liu Qian's cousin Zheng Nanhai was a local official and served as a state official in Liang and Songzhou. Liu Qian's money was almost running out and his life was difficult, so he went to Liangsong Prefecture to find his cousin Zheng Nanhai for help. Liu Qian climbed over the mountains and ridges and walked to Ziluo City. His body was exhausted. He stopped in front of a drug store and sat on a bench to take a nap.
At this time, a woodcutter came to the door of the medicine shop with a load of firewood. He put down the load of firewood from his shoulders, leaned the pole against the wall, turned around and stayed close to Liu Qian, and also sat on the bench to rest. A polite, white-faced scholar and a rough, black woodcutter are both incompatible with each other sitting on the same bench. So the owner of the medicine shop angrily scolded the woodcutter and said, "Get up, that's not the place for you to sit." As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Qian picked up his gown, stood up first, and said to the owner, "The woodcutter is not necessarily an idler when he comes to the medicine shop." , Maybe he is here to buy medicine, or he has an urgent request, so you can't angrily drive him away." Then, Liu Qian turned to the woodcutter, bowed his hands and asked the woodcutter what happened. The woodcutter said, "Open your bag and please give me a piece of paper, a brush, and an inkstone." Liu Qian handed the brush and paper to the woodcutter.
After grinding the ink, the woodcutter took up his pen and wrote a few lines of limericks. After writing it, I handed it to Liu Qian to read. After Liu Qian took the poem manuscript and read it, he saw that the writing style was powerful and elegant, which was beyond ordinary. His writing said: "I want to go to Liang and Song Dynasties . The disasters in Liang and Song Dynasties were serious, and I was sued day and night. I want to visit Zheng Sheng, and Zheng Sheng will be there." If there is misfortune, you will be a traveler from thousands of miles away, and the color of your clothes will also change." The limerick was signed by Ziluo Qiaosou Ren Xidao. After Liu Qian read it, he looked frightened and dumbfounded. When he came back to his senses and wanted to ask for details, he looked around but there was no sign of the woodcutter. Liu Qian felt that the woodcutter was not a mortal, so he believed the woodcutter's words, stopped looking for his cousin Zheng Nanhai, and returned home.
One month later, news came from Liang and Songzhou. Sure enough, his cousin Zheng Nanhai was prosecuted and demoted and sent thousands of miles away. Liu Qian admired the woodcutter even more, so Liu Qian went to the mountain village near Ziluo City to look for people who wanted to visit the Ziluo woodcutter. For several months, I never saw the woodcutter again, so I had to treasure the limericks written by Ziluo Woodcutter.
A few years later, Zheng Nanhai retired and returned to his hometown, Ziluo Mountain. Liu Qian showed Zheng Nanhai the limerick of Ziluo Woodcutter, and Zheng Nanhai was also surprised. From then on, the immortal name of Ziluo Woodcutter Ren Xidao spread. It was included in the book "Biography of Immortals" by Du Guangting, a Taoist scholar at that time.
