The Bodhisattva River is the water source of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. It is located upstream of Xinyang Port and is the main outlet of Dazong Lake. The river runs straight through the urban area of ??Yancheng City and enters the East China Sea from the northeast. She is The mother river of Yancheng people.
Origin of the name
About the Python River, it is named after its shape like a python. There are also other theories, such as the legend of how it got its name. When I was young, I heard old people say that the Python River was artificially mined. The reason why it was called the Python River was because the mining followed the traces left by a python parade, hence the name. There are many legends.
Legend 1: One year, the imperial court suddenly sent a white-bearded minister to dig the river. The night before the project was about to be completed, he asked the sergeants to block the river and insert 108 large shovels into a line. , the next day people got up and saw a severed python under the big shovel. In a family named Wang on a high pier by the river, a boy who was covered with dragon scales after he was born also died in the middle of the night. It turned out that this minister was the prime minister of the court. He saw that Yancheng had a royal spirit, so he came here to dig a river and cut off the royal veins. When I was young, after hearing the story, I became panicked and afraid of dying prematurely. I didn’t like the fact that there were old men in the world. Regardless of whether he had a white beard or not, he seemed to be a comrade of the white-bearded prime minister. He would rise into the air and stand there. I looked up from the clouds and saw a colorful dragon-shaped cloud wherever I saw it. I went to destroy it. There was a villain who didn't know that he had inherited the emperor's responsibilities and suffered. But I was also happy after hearing the story. I was happy that my hometown also had the spirit of an emperor.
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"The Legend of the Python River" passed by, and Longgang was covered with yellow sand, desolate and overgrown with weeds. There is a python practicing on this sand hill. I don’t know how many years of practice, the python can turn into a human form. It played a magic trick and transformed this wasteland into a manor with beautiful scenery.
In the future, an old man Zhang came here. Seeing that it was getting late, he saw the manor in front of him, so he went to stay in the manor. When the owner of the village saw that the old man was good-looking, he warmly received him and wanted to make friends with him. During the discussion, names were exchanged. The old man said that the surname was Zhang Ming Lao Hao, while the village owner said that the surname was single name Wang, which implies the pronunciation of "Snake King". Zhang Laohao liked him very much as he was an upright young scholar with outstanding talents and extraordinary appearance. As a result, after the matchmaker negotiated, the family's beloved daughter was married to Shan Wang.
A month after her daughter got married, she returned to her parents’ home. She told her mother that she always felt cold on her husband. When my mother heard that it was cold, she asked Mr. Zhang, "What is this cold thing about the son-in-law you are looking for?" Mr. Zhang felt strange when he heard this. Looking back on his daily encounters with his son-in-law, there was always something This explanation aroused suspicion, and he immediately went to find his cousin Zhang Zhenren.
Zhenren Zhang took a look in the demon mirror and found out that it was a big python that had been cultivated for many years. Master Zhang wants to kill him. When Shan Wang saw Zhang Zhenren, he knew something was wrong and immediately transformed into a python. His eyes were wide open like today's searchlights, and the manor turned into a big snake cave. The python curled up in the hole, stared at Master Zhang and begged, "Master, I have not harmed anyone, why do you want to harm me." Master Zhang is an expert at subduing monsters, how could he spare the goblin, and then held the hand The sword dug out the snake's two eyes. The python was in unbearable pain, so it slipped out of the snake hole and reached the west gate of Yancheng, but was caught up and stopped by Zhang Zhenren. The boa constrictor turned its head to the west again, and the real person was still chasing after it. Chase, swim; swim, chase, the boa constrictor loses its eyes and twists and turns to escape. Starting from the current Dengying Bridge in Yancheng, it winds westward and southward for more than 60 miles, all the way to Dazong Lake. When all its blood was gone, Master Zhang gave up. After the python died, it swam into a big river, irrigated the fields on both sides, and achieved a bumper harvest. In order to commemorate it, the farmers called the river "Python River."
"The Story of Python River" Legend》2
It is said that more than a thousand years ago, there was a big python coiled under Dazong Lake. The python coiled up like a mountain, and the snake's head looked like a big windmill. It raised its head a hundred feet high and had plaques on its scales. Big, the head of the python is on the east side of Dazong Lake, and the tail of the snake is on Xishagou. It wants to achieve righteousness and become a dragon and a king in the East China Sea. Has been practicing for more than nine hundred years.
But it is very restless. A sip of water can drain the lake. The bottom of the river is so dry that it is not dirty even if you walk in the lake wearing embroidered shoes. If you blow a puff of water, the white waves inside and outside the lake will surge into the sky, and the crops will be flooded. If you shake it, The body will be shaken by earthquakes and floods, houses will collapse, and people and animals will be injured or killed. Droughts and floods occur every year.
On the twenty-fourth night of this year, the land master could no longer bear it and went to heaven to file a petition.
When the Jade Emperor saw the land lord's complaint, Long Yan was furious and immediately sent Taibai Jinxing down to earth.
So Taibai Jinxing dressed up as a Yin-Yang man who was observing Feng Shui. He held the Bagua chart in his left hand and the Gua blank in his right hand. To tell the direction of the grave, to tell fortunes, to bring good luck, fortunes must be calculated diligently, and fortunes must be calculated diligently. If fortunes are met, fortunes can be calculated, but if fortunes are missed, fortunes cannot be counted, and monsters can be subdued." He came to the village to hunt down monsters. The two elders said, "If we want this place to have good weather, ensure good harvests despite droughts and floods, and allow people to live and work in peace and contentment, we must build a seven-story pagoda in the southeast of the lake."
The elders did not understand what they meant and hurriedly asked for advice. : "Why is this?"
Taibai Jinxing twisted his long white beard in his hand, "Zhenjiang Leifeng Pagoda has suppressed the white snake spirit for thousands of years. If a seven-story pagoda is built seven inches away from the big python, it will Stop the big python."
After saying that, the white light flashed and floated away.
Everyone quickly bowed to heaven and thanked the gods for their enlightenment.
The next day, the elder summoned the skilled craftsmen on the village to draw the lines and drive the piles. Just after driving two stakes, the python suddenly felt unbearable pain and could not lift its head. I thought: If you don’t let me have peace, I will go to the East China Sea to take refuge for a while. So he forced himself to swim to the East China Sea. At this time, the Dragon King of the East China Sea and the Dragon King of the West Sea were playing chess. Suddenly, they heard a voice, "Report, something bad is happening. There is a big python coming from the west to the East China Sea."
The Dragon King of the East China Sea was shocked and quickly sent crucian carp. The Pioneer and the Third Prince got rid of the big python.
So, they arrived at Jingkou in Qinnan. The third prince saw the big python panting and swimming eastward, roaring, "You evil beast, where are you going?"
The big boa constrictor was startled. When he looked up, he saw the third prince doing magic in the sky. Dark clouds were rolling in the sky and thunder was rumbling. He knew that a disaster was coming.
I thought that if I fight today, I will die, and if I don’t fight, I will die. It is better to fight to the death and survive. It immediately opened its big mouth, trying to swallow the crucian carp and the water into its belly. A quick look revealed that the spines on the crucian carp's body were like knives, and the rows of spines were like knife peaks. The big python "wuwuwu..." hurriedly wanted to fly over the crucian carp. When the crucian carp saw it, it quickly slapped a flower and rushed in front of the big python, blocking the way of the big python, and roared "beast" , you still want to escape." He hurriedly asked the third prince to make it rain, only to hear a huge thunder, thunder and rain, and heavy rain, wow..., the crucian carp took advantage of the rain and got under the belly of the big python. Whoops, the big python was finally outnumbered. The two enemies died tragically at the north gate of Yancheng.
Where the boa constrictor swam, it curved into a big river. This big river is today's Boa Constrictor River.