There is a river called Fairy River in front of Zhubian Village in Zhubian Town. The river flows into Zhuxi River from the upstream Yaogou to the west. In Fiona Fang, there is an abrupt mound named Jiutian Fairy Pier, which is about 19 meters high and covers an area of about 5,000 square meters. The dock is overgrown with weeds and lush trees. Speaking of the origin of the name of the dock, it goes back to a beautiful and touching myth and legend a long time ago.
According to legend, Bai lived here in the Tang Dynasty. Because the underground yellow mud around the kiln ditch is flexible and delicate, it is very suitable for making pottery such as tiles and pots. The industrious and dexterous Bai family made a living by burning kilns, and named the village Niwa Village. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to war, plague and other reasons, it was deserted and only a few families lived here. During Jingtai period of Ming Dynasty, Liu moved to Zuboyuan, and his wife moved from Shojimura with four sons and a nephew. Seeing beautiful scenery, green grass and fragrant flowers, fertile land, this is a good place to live. They cultivated fields and built houses on this wasteland, and they still use the name of Niwazhuang Village. It was not until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty that it was renamed Zhubian Village because it was located by our river. Some villagers in the Liu family have been following the tradition of making crocks by Bai villagers and engaged in kiln burning. Kiln products are crisp, loud, clean and exquisite, and villagers carry baked pots and pans and sell them in different places. There is a well-off family in the village. The owner has a son named Liu Sheng who is studying in a private school this year. He is talented and studious, and the whole family is counting on him to be the top scholar and honor his ancestors. However, there are unexpected events in the sky, and people are doomed. Who knows that Liu Sheng's parents fell ill and died? In order to treat his parents, Liu Sheng sold his land and all his property and became an orphan in a blink of an eye. There is a tall earthen kiln in the village, which specializes in firing clay tiles, bowls, pots and basins. And business is booming. Everyone saw that Liu Sheng was lonely and sympathized with his experience, so they asked him to work in the kiln workshop and live in it at night to take care of the kiln. In the past, ordinary people needed a lot of dishes and bowls to entertain guests, which were usually borrowed from earth kilns. Because Liu Sheng was kind-hearted, the villagers came to borrow money from him and he gave them everything they wanted. Because in the process of use, the borrowed things are damaged and not returned. Moreover, the used bowls and pots have become old and cannot be sold at a good price. All these losses are paid by Liu Sheng himself, so Liu Sheng's salary is still left every year. After several years of rolling and crawling, Liu Sheng has a weak scholar who has been tempered into a decent and strong afterlife. Although I am old enough to talk about marriage, my family is poor and I can only live a single life. Nine days ago, there was a fairy, the daughter of the Jade Emperor. She was born beautiful and charming. She deeply felt the loneliness of heaven and envied the beauty of the world. One day, the fairy came here by white clouds. She gently parted the clouds and looked down. She saw green trees and vines, flowers everywhere, farmers shuttling back and forth in the cultivated land, and kiln workers skillfully making pots, pans and other daily necessities. She was immediately attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of her eyes and couldn't help thinking of the past. So she pressed the white clouds and came to the big kiln. It happened that Liu Sheng came out of the cellar and met the fairy on the spot. Liu Sheng saw one in front of her. Seeing that Liu Sheng was handsome, burly and handsome, the fairy had a good feeling in her heart, and she giggled affectionately. Liu Sheng can't help but step forward and salute. It's like predestination, love at first sight, getting more and more congenial, and falling in love soon. Later, the two men were affectionate and sweet, and concluded a beautiful fairy-custom marriage. Fairy is kind, kind, charitable and sympathetic to human suffering. Seeing the villagers drinking boiled water after work, she scattered tea tree seeds on the surrounding land with her, and clusters of tea trees grew out in an instant. According to the method taught by the fairy, the villagers took its leaves to drink, and the tea brewed with its leaves was green and Ming Che, which was fragrant and refreshing, adding interest to rural life. She saw that Liu Sheng was very hardworking, but his life was not rich, which was caused by borrowing bowls and pots. As soon as she shook her long sleeves, she dug out a lot of gold and silver bowls, plates, basins and chopsticks for the people who came to rent them, and told people that relatives and friends could rent them out for free, and they should pay them back in full when they used them up. People in need in the surrounding ten miles and eight townships will tell the number they need before coming to the big earth kiln at night. The next morning, the dishes and chopsticks they need will be placed on the stone platform at the door of the earthen kiln. When things at home are finished, the villagers will keep their promises and return them. After nine days, fairies protected this area with good weather and peace and prosperity, and the villagers lived and worked in peace and contentment.
When Liu Sheng and the fairy were immersed in happiness, a disaster came to them quietly. At first, the jade emperor didn't take it to heart, thinking that fairies were just obsessed with earthly flowers and plants, and would come back after playing enough. I didn't expect the immortal to not only stay in the secular world for a long time, but also dare to marry a mortal in private, because it is absolutely forbidden to love men and women and fall in love with mortals in private. When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was furious and immediately sent heavenly soldiers. Not far from the earth kiln, there is a front ridge. There is a boulder on the ridge, which is relatively flat. The fairy gets up every morning and dresses up on the boulder. This morning, the mountain soldiers will clear the clouds and look down. When he saw the fairy combing her hair on the boulder, he said sternly to the fairy, "The jade emperor has an order, and you must return to heaven immediately." If you don't obey orders, behead! " When the fairy heard this, she looked up and knew something was wrong. She wants to go back and tidy up and say goodbye to Liu Sheng. When she came to the mountain soldiers, she talked to the fairy, and she flew to heaven with the fairy. At this time, Liu Sheng was working in the kiln, but he didn't know what was happening outside. After he came out of the kiln, the fairy disappeared, and he couldn't find it anywhere. He suddenly remembered the place where the fairy washed and dressed in the morning, and climbed up the boulder. When he saw the comb and grate left by the fairy, he knew that the fairy had gone. Liu Sheng, who can't return to heaven, doesn't want tea and rice every day. Then he became ill and haggard, and died briefly in his thoughts. The fairy is also very sad in heaven, thinking about her husband every day, often Lacrimosa. One day, she sneaked into the world and heard that her husband had passed away. Two lines of tears kept flowing downwards, and the tears fell to the ground, forming a fairy river in front of the earthen kiln. Since then, the kiln has been abandoned and turned into a big mound. There is a small rich man in the neighborhood, another surname, who likes to be greedy and cheap. He borrowed several tables of gold and silver bowls and chopsticks for some unknown reason, and after using them up, he had a bad intention and let them cheat and not return them, which annoyed the fairy in a bad mood. Since then, the villagers can no longer borrow gold and silver bowls and basins, and another person with a surname has begun to fall into poverty, and the situation is getting worse and worse, and all the descendants are crazy. Later, the fairy missed her husband in the sky and secretly stayed on the mound for a long time. It is said that it will rain in Mao Mao when the fairy comes, and then there will be clouds on the top of the mound, from which the fairy cries intermittently and choked. It sounds so touching and sad that people can't help being sour. Later, in order to commemorate the fairy who came to earth for nine days, people called this big mound "Nine-Day Fairy Pier" and the river in front of it "Fairy River".
Later, there were many legends about the Nine-Day Fairy Wharf. In the past, people believed in Feng Shui. In order to make future generations prosper, the choice of grave site after the death of the old man depends on Feng Shui. It is said that one year in the Qing Dynasty, there was a big family in a nearby village. After the old man died, Mr. Feng Shui was invited to the cemetery to serve him with good wine and food. Mr. Feng Shui took a photo CD to inspect the landscape everywhere, strolled around a big circle, and didn't find a favorite place. This morning, when he came to Jiutian Fairy Wharf, he saw that in the morning fog like a veil, the top of the wharf was full of breath, and there was a auspicious cloud hovering in the sky. He hurried to the top of the dock and looked around. He saw a ridge with a round fish ridge in the southeast, which looked like a dragon, and the mound under his feet was just a faucet. He repeatedly praised: "It is indeed a treasure trove of geomantic omen and a good Long Mai! If you build a cemetery on this faucet, your descendants will be blessed from generation to generation, and maybe you will have an emperor. This time, you have to explain it to your master. " He was happily preparing to go back and tell his master that when he came down from the top of the pier and just settled down, he suddenly felt the mound shaking a little. He felt something was wrong. He hurried to the fairy river, took out a mirror and took a picture of Jiutian Fairy Wharf. It turned out that the whole mound was floating on the water. It is undoubtedly unstable to build a grave in such a place. On second thought, the dock is where Long Mai is, and ordinary people must not move, so he gave up the idea of building a grave on the dock.
Fairy River passes through Fairy Wharf for nine days, and there is a deep pond with clear water. Heavy rain is not muddy, and dry days never dry up. Because it is unfathomable, it looks mysterious. There is a young man in the village who is very good at water. He is curious about how deep the big yard is. One day, he wanted to try its depth himself, so he plunged into it. In the process of diving, he happened to meet two big turtles. He was holding a turtle in one hand, and the turtle took him down quickly. The water is getting colder and colder, and the meat is going to bite. Suddenly, he saw the brightly lit and resplendent palace in front. Because there is an elderly old mother to support at home, he pushed the two chinemys reevesii forward and came back soon. Since then, no one dared to dive with his own body, so people began to say that this deep pit is the "sea eye" connecting the East China Sea and the entrance to the Crystal Palace of the Dragon King.
During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a very bitter war broke out in this ancient land. In order to remember the history and remember the martyrs who died in the Anti-Japanese War, Mr. Wang Ziping, a village sage in Yetuan Village, Wang family, ran around calling for donations, and he also gave generously. He built a memorial tower for the anti-Japanese martyrs at Jiutian Fairy Wharf and erected a monument. The tower consists of a tower cap, a tower body and a tower foundation. There are several monuments in the tower, and the whole tower is majestic. Shortly after its completion, the memorial tower was destroyed by bombs dropped by Japanese planes, and the broken stone tablets were scattered nearby. Later, it was collected by Liu's descendants and collected in Liu's ancestral hall. The stone tablet cap and pedestal are still next to Jiutian Fairy Wharf, and there is a stone tablet outside the ancestral hall. It is one of the stone tablets in the memorial tower of that year, made of purple sand rock. It says: This is the cemetery of the fallen soldiers in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China. Guan Zhiren, Niu, Wu Jintang, Lianzhou City Soldiers, Zhang Fushan, and Zhang Tingxuan, although the past war years of swords and shadows and blood shed are gone forever, the spirit of these heroes who sacrificed their precious lives for the revolutionary cause in China has made future generations respect.
During the war of liberation, the Eighth Route Army stationed in the local area often went hungry because of insufficient supplies. One day, when several soldiers were patrolling near the Nine-Day Fairy Wharf, they saw a bubble the size of a fist coming out of a deep hole, and then huge ripples appeared on the water. Under the ripples, several large catfish more than an inch long swam leisurely. This discovery was immediately reported to the leader. In order to improve the life of the soldiers, the leader decided to catch these big fish, so he cut off the river and began to let the soldiers scoop water, and the water finally scooped up. From then on, there was a folk legend that soldiers scooped water to disturb the Dragon King, big catfish swam along the sea eye, and the sea eye was blocked by the Dragon King.
In 1970s, a phosphate mine in Jinping, Jiangsu Province produced calcium magnesium phosphate. Because a lot of serpentine is needed as raw material, and the underground of Jiutian Fairy Wharf is serpentine mine, the village leaders organized some laborers to dig serpentine behind the wharf to sell it, and soon dug a big pit. It happened that several young people in the village died one after another. At that time, the village seemed to explode, and people in the street were talking noisily. Some people seriously say that this has something to do with nine days. It's amazing. After the mound was repaired, all the young people in the village were safe and sound. This statement sounds feudal and superstitious in today's enlightened era, but it plays a vital role in the protection of the Nine-Day Fairy Pier. In the 1990s, Zhubian Town Government took the lead in harnessing small watersheds. While harnessing the Fairy River, the side of the wharf near the river was reinforced and maintained with red sandstone. Later, a leisure pavilion was built at the top of the pier, and an ancient stump was carved next to the pavilion, engraved with the words "Nine Days Welcome to the Fairy Pier". This is what we saw today. At present, Jiutian Fairy Wharf is an iconic natural landscape in Zhubian Village, attracting the attention of every tourist. (This article is based on the dictation of Liu Yuanxun, Liu Jiaji, Liu Shusong, Liu Yushu, Nie Qi and other old people, and thanks Li Shubiao, Wu Ruiqiang and Cang Jinsheng for their help. )
The first author's unit and telephone number: Li Fengcang Junan People's Hospital 13864993760.
Editor: Linyi Fengsan Culture Media Co., Ltd. Lu Fengsan