Legend of the place name "Red Mud Fish" in Nanma Village

Red soil fish (Hóng tǔ yú) is an ancient place name of a piece of land 1 km east of Nanma Village. Located at the northern foot of Maanshan, there are 100 mu terraces in Fiona Fang, all of which are red soil, and there are many cracked ginger stones in the ground. According to legend, thousands of years ago, the soil quality of "red soil fish" was originally yellow soil, and the place name was Donglingpo. There is a land of more than four acres on the roadside in the middle section of Dongling Slope. There are two fish-shaped ridges in the land, with a distance of 10 m and a north-south trend, with a length of about 8 meters, a width of about 2 meters and a height of 1.5 meters. The ridge of soil is covered with thorns, and no one dares to touch it. This land is the ancestral home of Wang Xing's family in the village, which has been passed down to Wang Dafu for more than 800 years. Wang Dafu is in his twenties, young and strong. Every time he plows in the spring and autumn, when he plows in two barren places in the field, he often damages farm tools and has the intention to eradicate them. This autumn, when Wang Dafu plowed the land on the left, he was scratched by the cracked ginger stone. The four families put the plowshares on and pulled them again, and made up their minds to level the land. After the autumn ploughing, Wang Dafu called two young men, with digging tools, to level the soil in the field. First, let's start from the barren land on the left. After excavation, we found many cracked ginger stones. They planed for seven days in a row and the barren land on the left was leveled. On the eighth day, a group of three people came to the field with tools. Looking at it, I was blindsided. All the slopes have turned red. The leveled land is flooding. At this moment, it happened that a teacher of Yin and Yang named Dong passed by. Seeing this, he shouted, "Young man, who told you to be reckless?" The two barren lands in this field are two sacred fish, one male and one female, which are the aorta of Nanma Village and are related to the rise and fall of the village. Fortunately, you only tied one male fish, leaving only one female fish. If all of them are dug up, the population of the whole village will be restless within ten years. You see, cracked ginger is a fish bone, overflow is a fish bleeding, and the surrounding land is red with fish blood. Hearing this, Wang Dafu immediately turned to Mr. Dong for help. Mr. Dong instructed him to go to the Earth Temple to apologize first, and then he went to the ground to worship and pray with offerings, so that the matter could be settled. Since then, this 100 mu of land has become red land, and the name of Dongling slope has been changed to "red soil fish". The soil on the right side of the ground is barren, and no one dares to move another shovel. It was not until the Agricultural Dazhai Movement in 1970s that the barren land was leveled and turned into a flat and complete land.