Legend of Lin's battle with the White Horse King in Ningde

Legend has it that there was a man named Lin in Infrared Village of Ningde in Song Dynasty who moved to Jikeng Village in Xitan, Fu 'an, and his parents died. He went to Yangshan village in Ningde alone to herd cattle for people. There is a white horse king temple in Yangshan village, and this white horse king often comes out to do evil. There was a tiger next to him, which killed many people. One day, the white horse king said to the tiger, "tomorrow a foreigner will go up the mountain to mow the grass, and this person will become a white pig by noon." You can eat it as a snack. "

The words of King Charming were heard by a beggar. The beggar was going to save Lin, so he waited for him at the fork in the road. Soon, Lin came and left in a hurry, with a bag of rice on the tail of the gun. The beggar grabbed him and said, "Qin Zi, don't mow the grass today. The tiger of the White Horse King will eat you." Lin didn't believe it. Beggars began with what the White Horse King said to the tiger. Lin said, "Don't be afraid! This pest should have been eliminated a long time ago! It's time. " Said and walked towards the mountain.

? Lin mowed the grass as usual. Cut to noon and drink by the pool. At first glance, there is a shadow of a white pig in the pool. He sat on a big stone and began to eat. At this time, the tiger has reached the edge of the cliff and saw the "white pig", drooling and dripping on Lin's head. Knowing that the bug was coming, Lin looked up and said to the tiger, "Brother Tiger, I was badly hurt by you. Can you let me finish this bag of rice before I give it to you? " The tiger thought, you can't run away anyway. Just nodded. Lin knew that time was running out, so he slowly counted the rice and ate it until after noon. When he looked into the water again, the shadow had become a person. Lin put the remaining bag of thin rice on the tail of the gun and said to the tiger, "Brother Hu, I still have some left in this bag of thin rice. Please eat first. " The tiger is hungry. It opens its mouth to eat. Lin immediately put the pointed gun tail into the tiger's mouth and tried his best to send it up.

The tiger roared and fell off the cliff. Lin Qinzi jumped off the rock, held down the tiger and killed it with three punches and two feet. He returned to Yangshan Village with a dead tiger on his shoulder. Lin hated King Baima so much that he deliberately dragged the dead tiger to the temple of King Baima and slaughtered it. He put it in a pot to cook. After cooking, he took the tiger meat to grind the mouth of the white horse king and poured the tiger broth on the white horse king from head to toe. The statue of the White Horse King looks like a clay sculpture. When it was splashed with hot soup, it softened and fell off its head.

Legend has it that when people descend to the white horse king, even wizards will lose their heads Lin harmed others and himself, cooked the tiger of the white horse king, humiliated it, and forged a deep hatred from then on. A few years later, he was finally assassinated by the white horse king. When he died, he said to the villagers, "I was born for the villagers, and I died for the villagers." If I were a ghost, I would fight the charm king. You put a bamboo tip into the ground, and I fell down from the tile house and died. If the blood spilled outside the circle is the feng shui of the people in five counties, if the blood spilled inside the circle is the feng shui of the local people (meaning to protect the villagers), Lin fell down from the upstairs and died. As a result, he became the patron saint of the people in five counties in eastern Fujian, and the people called him Gong Linwang.

Shortly after Lin died, he expressed his dream to the villagers and said, "The White Horse King wants to fight with me. There will be two crows in the sky tomorrow. One is white and the other is black. The black one is me, and the white one is white. Please gather together and cheer, shouting that the white one loses and the black one wins! White lost, black won! I can beat him. The next morning, there were really two black and white crows fighting in the sky. The people shouted: "White lost, black won, white lost, black won. "At that time, there were four passers-by, one surnamed Zhou, one surnamed Cheng, one surnamed Yang and one surnamed Liu. Zhou and Cheng sell bronze drums and hammer gongs to cheer. Yang and Liu sold vases and helped Hei, shouting to throw them up. Unexpectedly, all the vases were smashed to pieces. The white crow was defeated. Chased by a black crow, there was no way out and he fled to other places. Later, these four generals were accepted by Gong Lin as his subordinates, namely: General Gong Hammer, General Zhou Cheng, and General Zhou Cheng.

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