A short story of Xuanwu Lake allusions and legends

The history of Xuanwu Lake can be traced back to the pre-Qin period more than 2220 years ago.

Xuanwu Lake, called Sangbo in ancient times, was originally just a swamp wetland formed by faults, and the lake water came from the northern foot of Zhongshan.

After Qin Shihuang destroyed Chu, Jinling was changed to Moling County, and Xuanwu Lake was renamed Moling Lake. Because Jiang, a captain of Moling in Han Dynasty, was buried in this lake, Sun Quan named it "Jiangling Lake" to avoid his grandfather's anonymity.

Sun Quan, the prince of Wu, introduced water into the back lake of Gongyuan, and Xuanwu Lake began to form a lake.

Xuanwu Lake is also called "Houhu" or "Beihu" because it is located in the north of Yanque Lake and Miyagi.

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During the Six Dynasties, Xuanwu Lake was a paradise for feudal emperors.

After Sui and Tang Dynasties, Xuanwu Lake gradually declined as the capital moved north.

In the eighth year of Song Xining (1075), Wang Anshi, the magistrate of Jiangning, allowed Song Shenzong to dredge the lake and increase the land, so Xuanwu Lake disappeared for more than 200 years. Xuanwu Lake reappeared on the map of Nanjing after two dredges from Dade in Yuan Dynasty (130 1) to Zheng Zheng in three years (1343).

In the 14th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (138 1), Zhu Yuanzhang chose Xuanwu Lake as the storage place of Huangshu in Ming Dynasty and built Houhu Huangshu Museum (equivalent to the current Central Archives).

After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Xuanwu Lake was reopened to the outside world, where Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited and left poems.

After liberation, the people * * * carried out a large-scale expansion and transformation of Xuanwu Lake, moved out of the lake people, planted a variety of flowers and plants, increased scenic spots, and took on a new look.

At the end of 2005, the scenic spot won the title of national AAAA-level tourist area.

Xuanwu Lake Park 20 10 10 1 is open for free.

Legend of Xuanwu Lake

Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing, formerly known as Houhu, was later renamed Xuanwu Lake. According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Wen of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a year of drought, the lake poured backward and the land cracked.

From the emperor to the people, everyone burns incense and worships Buddha, but the Dragon King never drops a drop of rain.

There was a minister in Song Wendi named Jiang Zuo, who was in charge of agriculture and mulberry. Seeing the crop failure, he was so anxious that he couldn't eat or sleep all day.

Jiang Zuo has a daughter named Jiang Yu who is 18 years old. She is very smart. She was also worried when she saw her father sigh.

On the day of arriving at the temple in the middle of the lake, Song Wendi called the minister of civil and military affairs into the palace and said, "Now there is a great disaster, and whoever can fight the drought, I will definitely raise his rank by three levels.

"Wu Wen off white nobody answered.

At this time, a treacherous court official named Shi Gua said, "Your Majesty, it is not difficult to eliminate drought pests.

""What's not difficult? " Song Wendi asked.

Shi Gua handed a copy of the paper and said, "Your Majesty, I had a dream at night, and the words in the dream were written on the paper. Please take a long look. " Emperor Wen opened the throne and wrote 20 words on it: "The Dragon King lost his palace and sought beauty everywhere. If the weather is not dry, he must offer jade.

The emperor looked at it and couldn't understand it. He asked Shigua, "Sacrifice jade, where is this jade?" The stone scraper pointed to Jiang Zuo: "The jade is at Jiang's house.

Jiang Zuo was shocked and thought, "Stone scraping, stone scraping, you are really poisonous, which has brought disaster to my daughter!"

It turned out that two years ago, Shi Gua acted as a matchmaker for his son Shi Incomplete, and wanted Jiang Yu to be his daughter-in-law. But Jiang Zuo knew Shi Incomplete's character and didn't promise, but he didn't know that he had offended Shi Gua, so he came to take revenge today.

"Huh?" Song Wendi still doesn't understand the meaning of scraping stones.

Shi Gua said, "Your Majesty, it will be the birthday of the Dragon King of the East China Sea in three days. On that day, jade will be sent to Beihu and incinerated with sandalwood. The jade soul will enter the East China Sea, and the dragon king will become a wife after receiving the jade.

When the dragon is happy, it sends water.

Isn't it difficult to get rid of drought pests? "Nodded, turned to Jiang Zuo and said," Jiang, if you give up a beautiful piece of jade, it will save people all over the world, which is worth it. That's settled.

""well, ah ... "Jiang Zuo didn't promise, so he told the stonecutter to prepare the high platform, and three days later he went to Beihu to sacrifice jade for rain.

Jiang Zuo came home, worried.

The daughter repeatedly asked, and Jiang Zuo told the truth that the stone was scraped and framed.

Jiang Yu was not in a hurry when he heard this, but comforted his father: "Don't worry, my daughter has her own way to deal with it.

"Jiang Zuo asked her what she could do. She just smiled and asked her father to paint in Xuanwu Lake Park for three days before going to Beihu for sightseeing.

Three days later, at noon, people in Jiankang city flocked to the lake to watch the emperor sacrifice rain.

Jiang Zuo's father and daughter, Shi Gua's father and son have also arrived.

At three o'clock noon, Song Wendi stood on the high platform, facing the North Lake, and murmured: "I am a native of the East, and I know that the Dragon King has been rushing to the new funeral palace and has been looking for beauty everywhere for several months, which has caused a great drought in the East.

Recently, I found a beautiful jade for the Dragon King, praying for heavy rain to protect the lives of the people in the East ... Just after the emperor finished reading it, Shi Gua ran to Jiang Zuo like a devil, dragged Jiang Yu out of his hand, took it to the altar, and said to the emperor, "Long live, the jade has been brought, you can burn incense and sacrifice.

"Song Wendi without looking, lit the sandalwood on the high platform.

Shi Gua and his son were about to push Jiang Yu down the lake when Jiang Yu suddenly shouted, "Slow down! My daughter has something to say to Viva! " Hearing this, Song Wendi bowed his head and looked under the stage. When he saw a pink girl being imprisoned, he said, "Say what you have to say.

"Jiang Yu knelt down in front of the stage:" Long live, my daughter wants to hear Lord Shi's cross eulogy.

""yes.

"Song Wendi read aloud.

"Oh, the dragon king wants jade, not a VIP. The little girl brought a piece of hetian jade and was willing to give it.

"Jiang Yu don't worry don't panic.

When Song Wendi saw Jiang Yu's deep affection, he heard her words for a reason. He nodded and said, "Jade is also a stone. Of course, jade is a gem! " As soon as the stone was in a hurry, he quickly interrupted: "Long live,' The Dragon King mourned Xuanwu Lake Park-Jiangyu Sculpture Palace, looking for beauty everywhere', of course referring to people! "Long live, my little daughter dreamed of the confession of the cross last night".

Jiang Yu said, taking out his passbook.

"Oh," the emperor quickly opened it, and the passbook read: "If the dragon king wants beauty, he must offer beautiful jade, and the double stone refers to beautiful jade, and the North Lake fills his eyes.

"Song Wendi asked," which is the double stone? " Jiang Yu pointed to the stone scraping father and son: "That's them! "The stone shaved his face white:" Long live, don't listen to this woman's nonsense, she is obviously trying to frame our father and son! " "Song Wendi has no right.

"Long live, little girl, there is a method that is the most reasonable.

Jiang Yu said: "At this time, the lake has dried up, and the Shi family and my father and son entered the lake from one side. He offered beautiful jade, and I offered others, which was chosen by the Dragon King.

"This Monday, all the subjects nodded in praise, and Song Wendi agreed.

He opened the box, and sure enough, there was a piece of smooth and transparent jade in it, so he ordered the stone scraping father and son to carry the box down the lake, and the stone scraping father and son had to walk slowly into the North Lake step by step.

Jiang Yu also dressed herself up and walked from the other side to the middle of the lake.

The map of Xuanwu Lake Park at this time shows that the North Lake is only a little shallow in the middle of the lake. When the stone hit the middle of the lake, the lower body was soaked, and it was hard to get to the middle of the lake. They put the affairs box on the small mound, lifted the lid and hurried back.

I don't know, a black dragon suddenly appeared in the middle of the lake, with its big mouth open, swallowed the beautiful jade, ascended to heaven, and stirred up the dark clouds all over the sky. The stone scraper and his son were so scared that their legs and stomachs went soft and they couldn't run fast. They looked up and saw Jiang Yu fall to the ground in the morning, and the father and son were particularly worried. At this time, the black dragon spit out the beautiful jade in the sky, slammed into the middle of the lake, and smashed a big hole in the North Lake, spewing out.

After working in Jinling for several months, the weather is fine again.

Because Song Wendi saw the black dragon spitting jade, he called Beihu Lake Black Dragon Lake. Because "Xuan" means "black" and "north", it was later renamed Xuanwu Lake.

Legend of Maolaoren Temple

There is an exhibition hall in Liangzhou, Xuanwu Lake.

Earlier, it was called the Lake Temple.

Formerly called Maolaoren Temple.

According to the elders, Mao was an old man who fished in the early Ming Dynasty. He has been fishing on Xuanwu Lake. He is a lonely old man.

One day, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, was upset because he couldn't find a good place to build the Taishi Museum. A feng shui gentleman suggested: "Xuanwu Lake is a treasure trove of feng shui, with Shicheng in the west, Zhongshan in the east and Pingping House in the south. It is perfect to build the imperial archives in the lake.

"Zhu Yuanzhang a listen to, bother to say yes.

A counselor asked, "What about the fishermen on the lake?" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Kill them all!" That's settled.

When the news reached the fishermen, everyone was furious.

Finally, everyone recommended Mao Laotou to talk to Zhu Yuanzhang.

When Xuanwu Lake Park arrived at the Huanzhou Palace, when he met the emperor, the old man Mao said, "There are too many mice in Xuanwu Lake.".

It chews clothes, steals food and smashes houses. The emperor wants to build the royal archives. Aren't you afraid that the imperial archives will be bitten by rats? "Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly blindsided and asked," Lao Mao, what do you think of this? " "Change the place!" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't bear to part with it, thinking, "Rats are afraid of cats, if you keep cats …" Suddenly, his eyes rolled and he thought of this old hairy man, whose pronunciation is the same as that of cats, trying to subdue rats, so that he could come in handy.

He "hey hey" a smile: "Old man Mao, who fished all his life and worked hard, never had a good day. Now I have made you the curator of the Imperial Library.

Mao laohan was taken aback and thought, "you are so cunning." . If you want to borrow my hand to catch the villagers, I won't be fooled by you.

Repeatedly say "no, no, no, I can't do it!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted in his nose and ignored him no longer.

The counselor came over and said, "Old man, the emperor has a golden mouth and a jade word. Now that it's settled, we can't change our words.

Lao Mao was very angry and insisted, "No, no!" Several soldiers came and carried the old man Mao away.

The next day, a group of people drove into Xuanwu Lake.

Blink of an eye, a sea of fire, adults cry, dolls shout.

On the third day, the Imperial Archives broke ground. Lao Mao was locked in an empty room under the house because he refused to be the director. Ten days later, he starved to death.

The Imperial Library was about to be completed, and Zhu Yuanzhang led the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to inspect and summoned Mao Zedong.

When I heard the news of the death of old man Mao, I felt a little unbearable. I said to the servants, "Let's build a temple for old man Mao here, and prepare more incense for him to give me mice on the lake.".

"In this way, the temple for the elderly was built here.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qing soldiers invaded Nanjing and set fire to the Imperial Archives and the Temple of Mao Laoren.

Later, when it was rebuilt, a pair of copper hooks were dug up in front of the temple, which is said to be the account hooks of old man Mao.

Someone dug a well where the copper hook was dug, and carved two seal characters of "copper hook" on the mine field.

This copper hook well has been preserved until now.