Legend of Jiuxianshan

As the old saying goes, a mountain is not high, but a fairy is famous. Jiuxian Mountain, located in the Tongluo Mountain area of Guangfeng, Jiangxi Province, is only 55 meters above sea level at the highest point, but it is full of fairy air and haunts people, and there are nine immortals playing here, so Jiuxian Mountain is famous all over the world. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, in gao yang cun, tongboshan, a pair of brothers were born. My brother's name was Wen Yang, and my brother's name was Yang Wu. At the age of ten, they were apprenticed to each other and did a good job as masons. Although Wen Yang Yang Wu was born in poverty, he was ready to help others, and he was upright. It's New Year's Eve, and the two brothers are coming home from work outside and walking to the street corner. Yang Wu found someone stealing money from an old gentleman: "Brother, look!" When they saw it, the two thieves were caught by the old gentleman on the spot. They were about to applaud. Unexpectedly, the two thieves threw a splash, and a thief shouted to catch the thief and was about to hit someone with his fist. Wen Yang Yang Wu was furious and shouted, "Stop it!" Immediately rushed forward, one man caught one, and the two little ruffians left angrily when they saw someone helping them. The old man was grateful. It was getting late. When Wen Yang heard that he still had a long way to go back, he was afraid that the two ruffians would continue to bother him, so he said, "You'd better stay in our house for one night!" The old man was embarrassed at the thought that today is the Chinese New Year, but he was somewhat afraid at the thought of the two ruffians. Besides, he was also alone when he went back. Seeing that Wen Yang Yang Wu was so sincere, he agreed. When she entered the Yang family, the blind mother Yang heard that her son had brought back a guest, and she was very enthusiastic. She immediately ordered Yang Wu to kill the only old hen that laid eggs at home. In the evening, I ate the chicken's head, chicken's feet and chicken's internal organs at the New Year's Eve. A chicken body was packed by Yang Mu and left to the old man to eat on the way home the next day. The old man was grateful. One day a few years later, the old man was shocked to hear that Yang's mother died of illness and immediately rushed to Yang's house. When the two brothers saw the old man suddenly arrive, they were a little surprised: "Why are you here?" "I have come to see a buried treasure trove of geomantic omen for your mother." Only then did they know that the old gentleman turned out to be a Feng Shui gentleman, and this trip was specially for gratitude. He looked at a piece of land for Yang Mu in the back hill and said, "It's a dragon-shaped land, and soon Jiuxian Mountain will be the son of heaven." He patiently taught the two brothers how to bury their mother, as well as the time of burial and the direction of the grave. The two brothers do everything as the old man says. On the third day after the burial, I'm afraid a thatch actually grew on the grave. The old gentleman was shocked, and the two brothers asked, "What does this mean?" The old man shook his head and said, "Grass is bandits!" "Ah?" The two brothers were really surprised: "Didn't you say that this is a dragon-shaped land, and Jiuxian Mountain will be the son of heaven?" The old gentleman pinched his finger and frowned and said, "How can this be ... impossible ..." The brothers were also embarrassed: "What now?" As soon as the old gentleman closed his eyes, he thought for a moment and said, "There is an idea! You have to dig thirty-six ponds in front of the grave until you reach the river. " "Dig 36 ponds?" Yang's two brothers were taken aback, and then they only did as instructed, but when they dug 33 ponds in a row, they were too tired to stand it. On second thought, the old gentleman's geomantic omen was not good, and it was time-consuming and laborious to dig any more, so they didn't dig any more, and the matter would go away. In a blink of an eye, in the five years of Shunzhi, both brothers became strong men. One day, they were working as masons in a family, when their friend Li Wannian suddenly came running in a panic and said quietly, "You two brothers run quickly, it will be too late if it is late! The government will come to arrest you soon. " "Why should the government arrest us?" Wen Yang is strange. "This is all because Zhu Eighty sued you in Kangzhen, a military attache stationed in the county, saying that you two secretly communicated with Jiuxian Mountain and conspired to rebel." Wen Yang was outraged when he heard this. He knew that he often stopped Zhu Eighty from oppressing the people. The villain held a grudge and framed them in this way. Fortunately, Li Wannian is under Kang Zhen, and he got the news and quickly told Wen Yang Yang Wu. Helpless, Wen Yang Yang Wu took refuge in Huang Kuiyu on Jiuxianshan with the whole family. Huang Kuiyu was the remnant of the Ming Dynasty King who fled to Jiuxian Mountain by the Qing army. After Wen Yang went to Jiuxian Mountain, Huang Kuiyu thought that he was a stonemason, not only looked down on them, but also asked them to do heavy manual labor. On this day, Wen Yang, who came back from heavy work, suddenly saw his wife curled up in the corner of the room. He thought that his wife was ill and hurried forward to ask, only to find that his wife's face was full of tears. After asking, he realized that Huang Kuiyu had raped her while no one was at home. As soon as Wen Yang heard that he was furious, he took up his knife and was about to fight with Huang Kuiyu. He was stopped by Zhou Tianji, the prison guard who came to his house: "Brother Yang, don't be rash. You should outwit people like Huang Kuiyu." It turned out that Zhou Tianji was also very dissatisfied with Huang Kuiyu's tyrant behavior. He had repeatedly advised him, but he was reprimanded by Huang Kuiyu.

Speaking of Wen Yang's wife, it was a maid he met when he was working in a rich family in Shanxi. She was not only beautiful, but also intelligent. After their lover was discovered by the owner's master, the master said to Wen Yang, "You don't take care of yourself by urinating, but you dare to find my maid, unless the dustpan falls to the ground and the pole floats up in the water!" , Wen Yang which stand this ridicule, then ruthlessly dustpan fell to the ground, threw the pole into the river. Strangely enough, when the dustpan landed, it was really louder than a gong. The pole goes down the river, falls together and floats straight up. Suddenly, Wen Yang and his master were stunned ... At this time, the maid quickly came to Wen Yang's side and took his hand and said, "Let's go!" Wen Yang had an epiphany, pulled up the maid and ran away. After running over several mountain ridges, Wen Yang was still asking, "How did this happen?" The maid said with a smile, "I threw a big bronze mirror to the ground when you dropped the dustpan, and the bronze mirror and the dustpan landed at the same time, so it made a gong-like noise." You threw the pole into the water, which just alarmed the fish under the water. Didn't you push the pole up? " When Wen Yang heard the joy, he hugged her and said, "It's your cleverness to throw the bronze mirror, and it's God's will for the fish to push the pole up. It seems that we will have a good life together!" Wen Yang didn't expect that his bad luck would begin with this woman. At present, his beautiful wife was humiliated and he was furious. After secret consultation with Zhou Tianji, they killed Huang Kuiyu on a dark night for a month. When Huang Kuiyu's subordinate Zhou Li heard that the castellan was killed, he immediately came to help, but he was no match for Wen Yang and Zhou Tianji, and ran away after two rounds. From then on, Wen Yang became the castellan of Jiuxian Mountain. Jiuxian Mountain is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and only a path in the north can climb the mountain. In order to stick to the stronghold, Wen Yang has built walls and gates in the east, south, west and north, which is a great trend of and while one man guards it and ten thousand cannot force it. He built the Juyi Hall and raised the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor. As the saying goes: when the flag of being a soldier is hoisted, there will be people who eat food. Some farmers who were cornered by the local government went to Jiuxian Mountain one after another. With so many people, Wen Yang dug ponds in the mountains to cultivate fields, while sending people to Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi to rob the official grain. On this day, Yang Wen saw that there were a lot of gold, silver and jewels on the mountain, and there was nowhere to hide them. In order to take a long-term view, he found his cousin Yang Xu, who had a light skill, and told her to find a place to hide. Yang Xu said, "Brother, I was just about to tell you that yesterday morning I went to comb my hair on the comb peak opposite Jiuxian Mountain and found a hidden silver hole on the cliff in the northeast." When Wen Yang heard this, she immediately made her transfer the gold, silver and jewels to the cave. At this point, Jiuxian Mountain is full of food and grass, and the soldiers are strong in Ma Zhuang, which is impregnable. Wen Yang also invited Xu Jingshi, an official who retired from the lead mountain, to go up the mountain and be hired as a strategist. Nine Immortals Mountain has become a sublime mountain. When the Qing rulers saw that Jiuxian Mountain was huge and panicked, they sent officers and men to suppress it many times. However, since Wen Yang became the castellan, Jiuxian Mountain has been shrouded in a thick fog all day, and the Qing soldiers can only see a vast expanse of whiteness, and they have no way to start. After hearing this, the Qing generals Zhou Guanfu and Zeng Zhangbiao did not believe this evil, so they personally led troops up the mountain. On this day, they were walking to the intersection of the mountain, only to see a thick fog coming. A few meters away, the government and Zeng Zhangbiao disappeared, and they shouted loudly. When the sound started, I suddenly saw the fog on the mountain ridge in front dispersed, and a man was sitting there reading. When they saw that it was Wen Yang, they immediately surrounded the ranks. At this time, Wen Yang was reading attentively, as if nothing had happened. Just as Zhou government and Zeng Zhangbiao led the ranks to rush up, sudden stones fell from the sky, causing them to die and get injured, and Zhou government and Zeng Zhangbiao were also killed on the spot. After the province and troops to suppress, but also repeatedly defeated. So the governor went to the imperial court and asked for more troops. Wen Yang then gathered people to erect the banner of the rebel army and openly confronted the Qing army.

in the ninth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court ordered Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to send troops to exterminate Jiuxian Mountain. No.3 military forces cut off the route for providing foodstuff in an attempt to trap the troops on Jiuxian Mountain. The officers and men surrounded the foot of the mountain for a whole year, but they didn't realize that the people on the mountain were trapped. On the contrary, after two years, the Qing military forces were tired and consumed countless grains. At that time, a Buddhist in the imperial court was studying Wen Yang's method of fighting, and found that as long as Wen Yang played against the Qing soldiers, he would sit in the array and read a book. Later, I learned that it was originally a wordless gobbledygook, and it was even said that Wen Yang Yang Wu was a heavenly general, and Wen Yang was chanting a mantra with a book, and a heavenly soldier would come to help him. At that time, there were two dazzling golden lanterns in the sky at the top of Jiuxian Mountain at night, which was the embodiment of Wen Yang Yangwu. The Buddhist watched the celestial phenomena at night and saw two red stars shining in the southeast sky. He said to Emperor Shunzhi, "There will be a new king in the south of the Yangtze River, and encirclement and suppression is useless." Emperor Shunzhi asked him what he could do to break this array, and the Buddhist said, "There is one way, and that is to dig his ancestral grave and break his geomantic omen." Shunzhi emperor immediately allowed to play. Yang Shouxian, the general of the Qing army, dug up Yang's mother's grave on orders, and suddenly saw two red carp with golden scales jumping out of the grave, jumping into the pond in front of the grave, and then jumping to another pond, so that he jumped 33 times. Finally, because the pond was too far away from the river, he failed to jump over, jumped on the shore and was caught and killed by Yang Shouxian. At this time, it was the day when the Qing army withdrew its troops. Suddenly, the dense fog on Jiuxian Mountain had dispersed a lot. As soon as the Qing army withdrew, Wen Yang went down the mountain to tear down a rich man's house in Shaxi Village Garden, Shatian Township, to expand the cottage on the mountain. When the subordinate asked how the brick was transported up the mountain, he waved and said, "Tell the brothers to line up all the way from the big garden to the top of the mountain, and pass the removed brick, tile, wood and stone to Jiuxian Mountain by hand." Suddenly, a long team has been connected from the big garden to the top of Jiuxian Mountain, and the scene of transferring bricks and tiles is quite spectacular. At this time, there were more than 9,3 insurgents, so Jiuxian Mountain was also called "Nine Qian Shan". Besides, Wen Yang's wife is too clever, and when she saw that the Nine Immortals Rebel Army won repeatedly, she had a bad heart and wanted Wen Yang to monopolize power and harm Yang Wu. One night, she quietly came to Yang Wu's room with a knife, and saw that he was asleep and was about to start work. Suddenly, Yang Wu's eyes were still open, which scared her to run away. Later, she inquired and learned that Yang Wu slept with his eyes open. So, that night, she killed Yang Wu. Immediately, a lantern on Jiuxian Mountain went out, and all the fog cleared. On the seventh day of October in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, the imperial Buddhist watched the celestial phenomena at night and found that there was only one of the two red stars left in the sky in the south of the Yangtze River, so he advised the emperor to send troops to encircle and encircle again. Yang Shouxian was ordered again, because there was no dense fog on the mountain, and many targets were exposed to the fire of the Qing army. Yang Shouxian let artillery bombard the stronghold all day, and the insurgents on Jiuxian Mountain suffered heavy casualties. After the death of Yang Wu, Wen Yang, like a broken arm, was overwhelmed. He had to avoid the fire of the Qing army every day and patrol the sentry at night for fear of the sneak attack of the Qing army. On this night, the lights of his night patrol were discovered by the Qing soldiers at the foot of the mountain, and immediately the artillery was fired, and Wen Yang was shot and killed on the spot. When Yang Wen died, there was no leader. Under the cover of artillery fire, the Qing army boarded Jiuxian Mountain. The Qing army killed Wen Yang and occupied Jiuxian Mountain. At this time, at the foot of the mountain, there are many ordinary people who have been helped by the Wen Yang Rebel Army to bow down and kowtow to Jiuxian Mountain. One of them is the old gentleman who looks at Feng Shui, only to see him beat his chest and swear: "I am old enough to look at Feng Shui and never look at Feng Shui again!" I don't know if he had just finished speaking, but there was a voice behind him: "Master, it's not your fault. It's all a small thought." When the old gentleman turned around and saw a teenager kneeling behind him, he asked, "Are you ..." The teenager hit his face and said, "It's all my fault!" "What do you mean ... why do I blame you?" After listening to the young man in detail, the old man suddenly realized. It turns out that the second day after Wen Yang's mother was buried, a golden ear of grain grew on the grave. According to Feng Shui, "valley" is the homonym of "country", and the son of heaven in Jiuxian Mountain will come out. Who knows, this guy knows a little about Feng Shui. Out of jealousy, the next night, he quietly pulled out the ears of grain on the grave and planted a thatch. "So that's it, this is God's will!" After listening to this, the old gentleman sighed: "If his brothers listened to me, there would be no such robbery if they dug 36 reservoirs!" After the Qing soldiers attacked Jiuxian Mountain, Xu Jingshi, the strategist of Wen Yang, climbed to the summit of Jiuxian Mountain and wrote a poem on a stone: "It is difficult for the country to ruin its home and die, and it is difficult to beg for it.". , the origin of righteousness into a philosopher, and don't make Wenshan only one person. And then tragically hanged himself and calmly died. A tragic legend of Jiuxian Mountain has been passed down to this day. Today, the castle on Jiuxian Mountain has become the site of the Wen Yang Rebel Army in Qing Dynasty, and the foundation of Juyi Hall is faintly visible. The foundation of four city walls in the southeast and northwest still exists, especially the foundation of the north city wall, which is 22 meters long. It is the only well-preserved ancient site of the peasant uprising army in Jiangxi Province and has been listed as a provincial cultural relic by the people of Jiangxi Province. The comb peak is still beautiful and straight, far from Jiuxian Mountain. The hidden silver cave on the cliff in the northeast of Jiuxian Mountain is still there, but its mystery has not been uncovered yet, and it is still a mystery in people's hearts.