The Origin and Story of Benxi Water Cave

Benxi is located in the mountainous area of Liaodong, with high mountains and dense forests. It is an important water conservation area in eastern Liaoning, with many rivers. Benxi is indeed the "source of water". However, the origin of the name "Benxi" has another origin.

Benxi is named after Benxi Lake. Benxi Lake is located in the city, with the water surface less than 15 square meters, which can be said to be the smallest lake in the world. Although the lake is small, it is also famous. It was once included in the Ten Scenes of Kanto. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the book Benxi Lake in Liaodong written by Chu Shi Gao Shengxian was engraved at the mouth of the lake, and the Cihang Ancient Temple was built by the lake. Built in the late Ming Dynasty, Sanskrit incense was once very prosperous.

Surrounded by mountains and peaks, the lake is wide outside and narrow inside, which is very similar to the glass made of rhinoceros horn, so it is called "Cup Rhino Lake" and homophonic "Benxi Lake". Since then, the city has been named after this lake. Benxi Lake City was formally established on 1939. After the founding of New China, the word "Lake" was removed and it was named Benxi City.

Benxi has a long history. The archaeological site of ancient human culture excavated in Miaohoushan shows that human ancestors thrived here in the Paleolithic Age 400,000-500,000 years ago. This not only fills the gap of paleolithic human fossils in northeast China, but also provides valuable historical materials for studying the distribution and migration of human beings in Northeast Asia.

The legend of the water cave:

At the beginning of chaos, Benxi was originally the sea of Wang Yang, and Taizi River was a river that flowed into the sea. There are several fish living in the Prince River. The husband is a striped loach and the wife is a slender eel. They gave birth to a son, who was covered with patterns like his father and as slim as his mother. He was named little eel loach.

Little eel has a heart to learn technology since childhood, and wants to do great things to change the family and honor the ancestors. According to the fisherman in Shuiguo, if you want to change your family, you have to practice hard and jump the dragon gate. Leaping over Longmen can make Jackie Chan, and Jackie Chan can make waves, clouds and rain.

But where is Longmen? It is said that it is in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Henan Province. Therefore, if the fish in the Taizi River want to jump over the Longmen, they have to enter the Benxi Sea, and then go upstream to the Liaohe, Bohai and Yellow Rivers.

But at that time, it would be over if the Taizi River flowed into the Benxi Sea. Fish in the Taizi River and Benxi Sea can't expect to jump over the Longmen. The little eel thinks that as long as he can practice his skills, why do he have to jump the dragon gate? Why does it have to be Jackie Chan? So it went up and down to the Prince River to find a teacher and friend, carefully cultivated, and studied hard for more than 3,000 years year after year.

God helps those who help themselves. It finally evolved an invulnerable body. It has also developed the ability to walk in the clouds, and it will change. Its body can be large or small, it can grow to 180 feet, fly in the sky, or it can be as small as half a needle, hiding in cracks under water. What's even more surprising is that it can spread clouds and rain, and it has the same ability as a dragon, just because it didn't jump over the dragon gate and can't become a dragon.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day this year, the little eel loach knew that it would rain in Xia Geng in spring, so she decided to go for rain. When it whistled, many fish brothers and turtles came, the eels cast a spell, and the fog rose at once.

Its body suddenly became as thick as a jar mouth, more than 100 feet long, flying in the sky, and it began to rain. His fish brothers and turtle brothers also made trouble together.

At this time, the world is worried, because there is no snow in winter and no rain in spring, and the land can't be planted. Getting this good rain really made everyone kowtow and burn incense everywhere. Eels are more proud and more eager to see them.

Besides, the Dragon King in Benxi Sea was sitting idly in his palace when it suddenly began to rain. Monk Zhang is really at a loss and is killing people to find out. I saw the Prime Minister Turtle and the sea patrol hag clamoring to break into the temple: "Report to your Majesty the Dragon King, the Prince River is raining heavily!"

The dragon king was furious: "How dare a little eel be so bold!" " So he quickly issued an order to find the eel and ask for a confession. He led his men into the sky. When he saw the little eel, he shouted, "Bold eel, how dare you throw clouds and rain at will? Come and die! "

Eel loach said, "I'm from the World Bank. What's it to you?"

"Rain is our children's business," said the Dragon King. What if it rains privately? "

The little eel loach said, "My eel loach has the ability to rain. Welcome it to rain!" "

The dragon king was furious and gave the order to launch a big war. The war between the aquarium and the aquarium in this water town is extraordinary. The two sides make waves, sow sex and kill each other. So the world was flooded, turning the banks of the Taizi River and Benxi into Zeguo.

Benxi Haixi is low in the north, and the sea water rushes out a gap in the direction of Liaoyang in the northwest. There was a loud bang, and Hong Tao rushed down, overwhelming, and Benxi Hailong Palace collapsed. Zi Long Sun Long and fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs all came down from Hong Tao, entered the Liaohe River and entered the Bohai Sea. Benxi Sea Dragon King also lost his armor and went to Bohai Dragon King for help.

The Dragon King of Bohai Sea couldn't refuse, so he led some fish essence, turtle monster, shrimp spirit, crab mother, clam demon, nut, sea patrol hag and little devil to shoot eel, but when the eel came, it won, commanding and unstoppable. The Dragon King of Bohai Sea lost several battles in a row, so he had to hang up the war-free card, guard Haikou closely, and prepare to report to the Jade Emperor urgently.

This aquarium war caused the Tao Huang in Taizi River and Liaohe River Basin to tumble, houses collapsed and people and animals drifted. Many people fled to the top of the mountain with young and old, ate wild fruit roots to coax their stomachs, and the kitchen gods provided by various families had no place to live, so they had to return to the Heavenly Palace to type books for the Jade Emperor.

It happened that the Jade Emperor called his ministers in Lingxiao Hall to discuss whether we should start to conquer eels and loach essence. Some ministers talked about it, while others said they shouldn't do it. Benxi sea has dried up and cannot be restored to its original state. Why bother people, bother people? Some scripts make jokes when they are released. The Dragon King and the Jade Emperor can't control eel and fish essence, and they really lose the majesty of Dragon Palace and Heaven.

This made the jade emperor indecisive. Just as the Kitchen God returned to the Heavenly Palace in advance to complain, he cursed the eel for a heinous crime. The Jade Emperor immediately ordered Erlang God to surrender eels and loach essence. He was ordered by Erlang God to come down to earth with a barking dog, met eel loach over Liaodong and arranged the battlefield.

Erlang Shen's three-pointed two-edged gun is elusive, but the eight mouths of eels must have turned into eight Strafe, which, like eight dragons, not only entangled his gun, but also shook his head and body tightly.

Erlang secretly ordered the barking dog to turn behind the eel to help him. Unexpectedly, the eel has been on guard, pretending not to know. As soon as the barking dog approached his mouth, he slammed his tail, causing the barking dog to bark and scream and fall to the ground. Erlang was shocked and lost his mind. Strafe of the eel tore off his helmet and scared him to flee back to the worse gate.

It's just that the helmet rolls in the cloud like a wheel until it rolls into Fengcheng County. It falls between Jiguan Mountain and Huanghuadianzi and becomes a high mountain, so people call it Maokui Mountain.

When the Jade Emperor saw that Erlang God was defeated and returned, Yan Long was furious, so he made a personal expedition. The four heavenly kings were appointed as pioneers, and the Eight donkey kong, the Twenty-eighth Night, the Thirty-sixth plough, the Seventy-second Dungeon and other days will surround the eel spirit from all directions, and use their magical powers to offer magic weapons such as tying fairy ropes, killing fairy swords, whipping gods, spreading epidemic flags, ecstasy umbrellas, and dry Kun circles. Even the pagoda of King Li Tian of Tota was sacrificed.

But they are all blocked by the eight mouths of eels, so they can't fall down in mid-air and fly up and down. So, we fought for three days and nights. The eel thought it was inevitable that many people would be fooled, so it suddenly fell from the air. When its tail touched the river, it snapped into a half-needle-sized eel cub, fell into the river and got into a crack in the rock.

The jade emperor sent clairvoyance and clairvoyance to look for it. As a result, there was no trace, so I had to move to Tiangong.

The Jade Emperor was sitting on the embroidered pier in the Lingxiao Hall. Just as he caught his breath, Taibai Venus walked up the golden steps with crutches, knelt down in front of the imperial court and shouted, "Tell your majesty that I have a way to surrender eel and loach essence."

"Ah, old love qing, what's the trick? Come on! "

Taibai Venus slowly drew a gold needle from her sleeve and held it in her palm. She said, "Your Majesty, this is the treasure of the old Tianhe fisherman, and it is called the most precious gold needle. It is easy to subdue eels and loach essence with it! "

"Well, I'll send you to subdue it!"

"Your majesty," said Venus Taibai, "that eel has been walking for more than 3,000 years and is very aura. If we go to Xiansaka in the sky, it will recognize it at a glance and will never take the bait. I ask your majesty to allow the old minister to visit an ordinary person in the lower world and let him go there. " The Jade Emperor said, "Good, good! Let's go. "

"obey orders!" Taibai Venus kowtowed to the temple and hurried out of the worse gate with auspicious clouds. When I arrived in Liaodong, the clouds cleared and I became an old man wandering around. In a place without water, I saw a young man in his twenties, wearing a white Dai Xiao, kneeling in front of a grave and burning paper and crying.

Taibai Venus asked, "Who are you in this grave?"

The young man wiped his tears and said, "It's my parents. It was drowned by the flood. "

Taibai Venus said, "That's the overflow of eel essence. You can get rid of this eel essence and avenge your parents! " "

The young man looked at Taibai Venus and said, "The heavenly soldiers and generals can't subdue it. Who can subdue it, ordinary people? "

Taibai Venus said, "I will give you a treasure, and I can subdue it."

Taibai Venus said, and took out the most precious gold needle. "You tie it with a red rope. In the middle of the night, when the stars are up, you go to the bank of the Prince River, facing the river, holding the tactic in your right hand and saying,' Eel, eel, don't worry, this is a golden lily, with no bait and no hook'. Read it three times in a row, let go of your hand and you can catch it, but don't unhook it. Put it down on the spot, grab three handfuls of soil, turn around and run, and run for a hundred steps before turning back. Within three days, you can take off the hook, stick three needles in its head, and then you can stick it to death. This precious gold needle is yours. This is priceless. If you need something, just take it out, hold it with your right index finger and thumb, knead it with your left hand, close your eyes and say,' Golden hook, golden hook, share my troubles, I want XXX, go and find it'. Then when you shake your right hand, it will automatically become a hook, and what you want will hang on the hook. "

The young man took the lily and saw that the old man had disappeared in the breeze. The young man was surprised and happy, knowing that he had met a fairy. ?

At home, he found a silk rope and tied it to Jin Baihe. At midnight, he came to the bank of Prince River, where the waves were rolling. He recited the formula according to the teaching of Taibai Venus, and sure enough, he caught a small eel. He quickly put it on the ground, grabbed three handfuls of sand and buried it. He turned and ran, and heard a long whistle and a series of thunder behind him.

When he ran a hundred paces and looked back, he saw a misty mountain, and it was still rising.

On the third day, the young man came to check it carefully. When he reached the top of the mountain, he saw that the lily had turned into a golden hook and caught in the mouth of the eel. Eel has become very big, I don't know how long it is. Because it is pressed on the mountain, it seems to grow with the rock. I told the story when I saw it in tears. The young man's heart softened, so he decided to save the eel from death.

Since then, eels have used those eight mouths to do good things for people. Someone who falls into the water will be rescued by a bearded man; When a lumberjack falls off a cliff, it gently supports him with a long beard; When there is a flood in summer, it becomes busier, saving people and fishing all day long.

Year after year, it has lost four of its eight beards, but it still hasn't stopped doing good deeds and helping people. On this day, when the sun was about to set, all of a sudden, the only mouth of the eel fell, and the gold hook hooked in the mouth suddenly straightened, and then it fell and was about to fall into the river. It quickly caught the lily with a probe.

At this time, it suddenly felt its body loose and detached from the rock. Looking back, I found that my body was covered with scales and had turned into a dragon, leaving a big hole on the cliff.

It moves its body happily, with a treasure in its mouth, and goes down the river. Because it became a dragon, it successfully entered the Liaohe River, Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and East China Sea? Since then, the precious golden needle has fallen into the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea and changed its name to "Dinghai Shenzhen".

Later, it was borrowed by the Monkey King as a weapon, also called "Ruyi Golden Hoop". But the Monkey King didn't get all its hints, so he could only change from big to small, or read the formula of "Golden Hook, Golden Hook, Share my worries for me, I want to catch the demon and find it". You can hook the monster with a hook and a flash, and it will be much smoother to go to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures.

After a long time, Xie Jiawei discovered that the cave winds for miles, and there are countless beautiful flowers on both sides and the ceiling, like people, like villages, like mountains and rivers. Actually, that's the skin peeled off by an eel. Because the bottom of the cave is advection green water, people call it Xiejiaweizi Water Cave, which is today's "Benxi Water Cave" or "Jiuqu Yinhe Cave".

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Characteristics of Benxi water conveyance tunnel:

Benxi Water Cave is a large water-filled cave formed millions of years ago. The entrance is located in the north-south direction, with a height of16m and a width of 25m. It is half-moon-shaped, and the upper end is engraved with the four characters of "Benxi Water Cave" written by Bo Yibo. The entrance to the water tunnel and the dry tunnel is a "welcoming living room" with a height of more than 20 meters and a width of more than 20 meters, which can accommodate thousands of people.

On the right side of the hall, there is a dry cave 300 meters long. The caves are patchwork, with holes in them, twists and turns, and each has its own hole. Stalactites on the ceiling and rock wall develop in groups along the cracks, showing various shapes, which are natural and interesting, just like the Dragon Palace Wonderland. Many landscapes such as Gujing, Longtan and Baibuchi make tourists daydream and linger.

At the end of the hole is a clear pool, bottomless, and the water vapor hits, which makes people feel sad and cold.

In front of the hall, there is a pier leading to the water tunnel. More than 1000 square meters of water is like a quiet and unique "harbor". As far as lighting is concerned, the cruise ship in the water and the stone scenery in the cave are reflected in it, which makes people feel like entering a fairyland.

Walk down from the revetment stone steps, get on the boat from the dock through the promenade, and swim in the water tunnel. The total length of the water tunnel is 5,800 meters, and now it has been developed to 2,800 meters, with an area of 36,000 square meters and a space of more than 400,000 cubic meters. The widest point is 38 meters high and 70 meters wide.

There is 1 1,000 square meters of water in front of the hall. There is a dock that can park 40 cruise ships at the same time, and you can also swim in the water cave by rowing, enjoying the size, length and depth of the water cave and the beautiful scenery of the waterfall. Then, you have to marvel: "There are thousands of peaks in the bell chest and thousands of poems and paintings in the canoe. Zhong Xiu should only be in fairyland, and it is the only cave in the world.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Benxi water cave