The myths and legends of Puxian are not idioms, but stories

In the fifth year of Song Bao's reign (1257), "Xianxi Zhi" contains 15 Taoist and Buddhist legends. The earliest among them is the story of the Nine Immortals: During the hunting period of the Han and Yuan Dynasties (122 BC - 117 BC), nine He brothers in Linzhou made elixirs and crossed carps to become immortals. The place where they passed was named Xianhu (Xianyou Jiuli Lake). Xianshui, Jiuxian Mountain, Xianling (Heling), Fengting, Xianyou (county).

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Kezhuang's "Yongyong Puji Wuhou Temple" said: Putian Yanshoupo was created in the Shenlong period of the Tang Dynasty (705-707). In the abyss, the water monsters are dead but the golden embankments are strong. It is said that Wuxing built a sea dike to reclaim Dutang, and built 400 hectares of Yanshoupo irrigation field, creating Beiyang paddy fields.

In the 10th year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty (1217), "Puyang Bishi" by Li Junfu, a Jinshi scholar and Putian native, also contains some stories and legends, such as the "Goddess Guardian" article about the fifth year of Xuanhe (1123) ), Lu Yundi sent Gao Li to encounter the wind, and Putian goddess Lin Mo appeared to protect Andu.

Folk stories have been processed and shaped during their circulation. For example, "Linghui Concubine Temple Records" written by Li Choufu, a Jinshi from Putian, in the first year of Kaiqing (1259), says: Wei Ling and Jiayou, Lin Mo's companions in the Linghui Concubine Temple in Jingkou, Zhenjiang, were brothers of Zhu Mo from Putian. To be able to become a god, to show off his power, and to live in the concubine's palace is the oldest." However, the "Tongzhi of Fujian" written by Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty said: Zhu Mo, a descendant of Zhu Xi from Gutian of the Tang Dynasty and a native of Huangshilinjing in Putian, cried from time to time during pregnancy, and when he was half a month old, his mother Meng Shen entered the hall and gave birth to her. Zhu Mo was born with supernatural powers, and he said to Tongshe: "I have a thousand men who can whip the barbarians far away. I ride on the clay horses in the mountain temple in the valley city, and there are many followers." His servant met him and returned home, but he was sleeping soundly in his tent. Died without illness at the age of 22. In the fourth year of Jianyan of the Song Dynasty (1130), a spirit appeared to protect Emperor Gaozong from crossing the river, and he was named Zhang Liehou. During the Chunxi period, Zhu De, a tribesman, founded a temple; during the Shaoding period, he was given the title of "Xianji". It can be seen that the story of the Zhu Mo brothers from the Song Dynasty spread to the Ming Dynasty and mutated. The "Tian Fei Xian Lu", originally created during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and edited during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, was rewritten as Lin Mo accepting the two demons Jiaying and Jiayou who were subdued in the sea as his generals and forming a class of Shuique immortals.

The Municipal Culture Bureau collected and organized the folktales circulating in the Puxian area. In April 1992, "Collection of Chinese Folktales·Fujian Volume·Putian City Volume" was internally published, with a total of 250,000 words. , selected 184 myths, legends, stories, fables, and jokes. In June of the same year, the Putian City Folk Literature Three Collection Editorial Committee submitted "The Legend of Mazu" to Straits Literature and Art Publishing House for official publication, with a total of 109,000 words.