The Legend of the Beautiful Girl in Shaohua Mountain Author: Shi Sanwen There is an old saying circulating in Xiamiao Town, Huazhou District: Shili Hu Village, Bali Diaozhuang, and high incense are burned in the Empress Temple. It means that Hu Village is ten miles wide, but Diao

Shaohua Mountain The Legend of the Jade Girl

Author: Shi Sanwen

There is an old saying circulating in Xiamiao Town, Huazhou District: Shili Hu Village, Bali Diaozhuang, high incense is burned in the Empress Temple. It means that Hu Village is ten miles wide, but Diaozhuang actually occupies eight miles of it. There is a very effective Empress Temple outside the west gate of Wangxiang in Hu Village. Faithful men and women from eight villages around ten miles away rushed to burn incense, pray for blessings, ask for children, and ask for marriage, so as to relieve disasters.

Wangxiang Village Photo by Gao Zhenqiang

According to legend, a god born and raised in Hu Village is enshrined in the Empress Temple. Regarding the life experience of the empress in the temple, there is a very legendary story passed down from generation to generation in the local area.

A long time ago, there was a king in Hu Village. His ancestors were in business, and after several generations of painstaking efforts, it has continued to grow. It can be said that his family is extremely wealthy. Ning, the principal member of the family, has beautiful features and dignified conduct. She is also a kind and virtuous person, willing to do charity, harmonious with relatives and neighbors, and has a good reputation in her hometown. However, Ning has never had a child after more than thirty years of marriage. Later, under the supervision of his parents, Wang Yuanwai married Ke Shi. Although this Ko Shi was cunning, mean and vicious in heart, he gave birth to two boys and one girl to the Wang family. Therefore, he is always arrogant and arrogant, and he is arrogant and arrogant towards the Wang family on weekdays.

In the spring of this year, a phoenix landed on the roof of Wang's house and stayed there for three days. Its cry attracted many people to come and watch, causing a sensation throughout the city. Soon, Mrs. Ning became pregnant with Liujia, which made the Wang family overjoyed. As the saying goes: is pregnant in ten months and is delivered once. Because Ning was already fifty years old and had a difficult childbirth, although she gave birth to a daughter, she lost her life due to excessive postpartum blood loss. It was really extremely joyful and tragic.

After Mrs. Ning passed away, fortunately the old lady was in good health and raised her granddaughter by herself every day. When she saw that the child had lost his mother when he was young, she went to the Patriarch's Palace at the foot of Shaohua Mountain to ask Master Yuqing to give him a name. The old Taoist priest asked about the horoscopes and looked at the face and said: "This girl is destined to Taoism. From now on, she must go to the Patriarch's Palace to burn incense and pray every year to eliminate disasters. What do you think of naming her Yu'e?" The old lady thanked her and said goodbye. Home.

When Yu'e was young, she was gifted and intelligent, with a beautiful orchid heart and a natural beauty. He was reciting poetry at the age of seven, could write at the age of ten, and had learned to weave at the age of twelve. Every year, her grandparents would personally take her to the Patriarch's Palace in Shaohua Mountain to burn incense and pray for blessings, and they never stopped.

Unexpectedly, when Yu'e was thirteen, her grandparents unfortunately fell ill and died one after another. Because his father was busy with business all day long, he had to entrust Yu'e to the care of his stepmother, Ke Shi. Ke has long been jealous of Yu'e's intelligence. In the past, when the old lady was alive, she did not dare to make mistakes. Now that the old lady has passed away, she has shown her fierceness. She often beats or scolds Yu'e, and leaves all the household chores such as washing, cooking, sweeping the floor, feeding pigs, and herding sheep to Yu'e. At night, Ke Shi also ordered Yu'e to spin half a catty of cotton before she could rest.

When Yu'e was seventeen years old, her father, Wang Yuanwai, was transporting goods on the Weihe River. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden violent surge, thunder and lightning, and the wind and waves overturned the cargo ship, causing the ship to be destroyed and everyone killed. Wang Yuan's family suffered such a catastrophe, and their family fortunes have been in ruins ever since.

From then on, Ke Shi took full power and did whatever he wanted, and tortured Yu'e even more viciously. During the day, Yu'e had to do laundry, cook, sweep the floor and feed the pigs. Even when she went out to herd sheep, she had to bring her spinning wheel. At night, Ke Shi asked him to work overtime on weaving. At first, Ke ordered Yu'e to spin a pound of cotton in one night. Seeing that Yu'e had finished spinning immediately, he added one pound to two pounds, and two pounds to three pounds. Who knew that three kilograms could be easily spun. If you weave at night, you can weave two pieces in the middle of the night. Ke Shi couldn't believe it. Ke Shi then intensified his efforts, increasing the amount of cotton for spinning from three to six pounds, and increasing the amount of weaving cloth from two to five.

Once, Ke went back to her natal family and mentioned this matter, but no one in her natal family believed it. Ke's mother said, "Unless that girl is a fairy or has divine power to help her, she would never have done anything like this." This sentence also reminded Ke.

It's and the crotch month is . The sun is like fire and the heat is unbearable.Ke deliberately made things difficult for Yu'e and ordered her to spin ten kilograms of cotton when herding sheep, otherwise she would not be allowed to go home. Soon after Yu'e went to herd the sheep, Ke followed quietly to check. From a distance, she saw that the grass by the river, the thorns, and the branches were covered with snow-white cotton wool. When I got closer, I saw that the black-headed general in cicada on the big tree was ordering hundreds of weaver girls (cicadas) to move the many knitted crocodiles into a long queue. Along with the cries of hundreds of spinning worms, the spinning wheel was seen spinning rapidly on the ground, and the spun threads were collected together by the weaver girl. There were cicadas who continued to pull and pull, some who specialized in spinning, and some who collected and transported. The scene was grand, the division of labor was clear, and in an orderly manner, ten kilograms of cotton were quickly spun into thread. Looking closely, Yu'e was lying on the big stone under the shade and fell asleep.

At that time, Ke was so shocked that she couldn't help shouting: "What a goddess!" The shouting scared Yu'e awake. When Yu'e saw that the secret was leaked and could no longer stay in the village, she resigned from Ke's family and went to Shaohua Mountain to practice Taoism. Before leaving, Ke regretted it so much that she took Yu'e's hand and knelt down in front of her with tears streaming down her face, begging Yu'e to forgive her mistake. Yu'e hurriedly helped her stepmother up and said to Ke, "I won't bear any grudge against you. If you want to have a child in the future, you can find a way to come to me." After saying this, she tied one end of the thread around her body. Standing on a thousand-year-old elm tree nearby, he turned around and said to Ke: "In the future, if there is a shortage of water and rice at home, you can hold the incense case and kneel in front of the elm tree at night, and some copper coins will fall. But don't be greedy, otherwise, the gods will save you." I can't help you." After saying that, he put down the rope and walked towards Shaohua Mountain.

The main peak of Shaohua Mountain From Damei Huazhou

Yu'e came to the Patriarch's Palace to explain her intention to Master Yuqing. The Taoist master knew his wisdom, so he received the ordination for Yu'e in front of the ancestor, and personally taught her pulse medicine, yin and yang, five elements , Taoist spells and so on. Yu'e then concentrated on practicing, and from then on, she entered the Taoist sect.

Three years after Yu'e practiced Taoism in the Patriarch's Palace at the foot of Shaohua Mountain, Taoist Master Yuqing ordered her to open a Taoist temple in Xiaofu Valley and promote morality. Yu'e was ordered to come out of the palace and go to Xiaofu Valley along the Yangchang Trail on the right side of the mountain at the entrance of Zuohu Valley. She raised her eyes and looked into the distance, only to see that the Wei River was like a belt and the crops were like grass. She couldn't help but miss her hometown and recalled her lost relatives, and she couldn't help but burst into tears. Seeing a huge boulder in front of me, I climbed up and stared at it for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh. After getting the stone, she used her fingers to draw a "Picture of a Jade Girl Spinning Thread" on the big stone. She blew on the fairy air and the picture remained on the stone forever.

After entering Xiaofu Valley, Yu'e devoted herself to practicing Taoism in a cave halfway up the mountain to the left of the Sanmagou entrance. She has insight into yin and yang, understands the truth and seeks tranquility, collects medicine and refines elixirs, and is extremely proficient in everything.

A year later, she traveled around the world, visited famous mountains and rivers, sought advice from her teachers, and studied mysteries intensively. Thirty years later, it was finally in Xiaofu Valley. From then on, he accumulated merits and good deeds and hung the pot to help the world. Whenever anyone asked about good or bad luck, the origin of cause and effect, it was miraculously fulfilled, and he was well-known in the northwest.

Later, when Yu'e was sixty-five years old, Bigu became an immortal. The real person was as motionless as a god, and did not eat the fireworks of the world. The locals respected her as the Jade Girl. People built temples, theaters and other large-scale buildings in the valley. The statue of the god is invited to the temple. There are many believers and the incense is strong. There is an endless stream of people praying for blessings, relief from disasters, and seeking medical advice.

Some worshipers who came here to see the statue looked exactly like a real person, so they secretly tried to pinch the skin of the statue with their fingers. Unexpectedly, blood would come out after pinching, which made people frightened and praised it as sacred. Over time, people saw that there were always people who were constantly trampling the gods, so they invited the statues to the Niangniang Cave halfway up the mountain, and used a big man to hold the statues, so that the gods could be quiet and undisturbed. Since then, people have called the cave halfway up the mountain the Jade Girl Cave and the temple in the valley the Jade Girl Temple.

In ancient times, in order to commemorate Yu'e, the people of Xiamiao Hu Village built a temple of the Empress outside the west gate of Wangxiang Village. It has great merits and strong incense.

In the 1960s, the Jade Girl Temple in Shaohua Mountain and surrounding buildings were all destroyed. Only the ruins of Jade Girl Temple are left. In 2005, when Shaohua Mountain was being developed, people rebuilt the Jade Girl Temple on the top of the mountain south of Yunu Bridge, with three rooms in one and green bricks and gray tiles, with a strong Taoist atmosphere, and was named Yu'e. Reshape the golden body.

Shaohua Mountain Empress Temple Since Let Your Mood

When Yu'e entered the mountain, the white line she led left a long white stone gap on the cliff on the bank of Xiaofuyu Mountain. People call it the place where the empress pulls the thread.

At the mouth of Zuohu Valley, 500 meters northeast of the Zushi Palace, there is a huge stone two meters square and two meters high. On the side of the huge stone, there is a "Picture of a Jade Girl Spinning Thread" composed of white stone. The characters in the picture are lifelike and delicate, and the large wheel, small shaft, spindle, thread, etc. of the spinning wheel are lifelike and precious.

According to Hu Jianzhong of Liujiahe Village at the foot of Shaohua Mountain, the old people in the village call this stone the "Empress Spinning Thread Stone". When he was young, he often played on the big rock. Three or four children could sit on the top of the big rock. When he graduated from high school in 1975, the stone was still there. Seventy-five years later, the production team was renovating the monk's land and destroyed this stone! From then on, the historical relics were gone, which made people sigh!

Storyteller: Liu Sanhe (1921-1995) Lianhuasi Town, Huazhou District A group of villagers from Xiaoshaohua, Shaohua Administrative Village. I heard this story around 1985, and I am writing this down to express my condolences to the deceased.

was written in Qingdao on June 2, 2020, from Huazhou, Shi Sanwen.

Original source: Author's contribution

Original author: Shi Sanwen

Compiled and edited by: Huazhou Literature and History Collection