With great aspirations, Tang Carp went up the stream, painstakingly waded through mountains and rivers, and searched all over Shan Ye. At last, he saw many wild lotus leaves by a clear stream, and dug down the lotus stems. Soon, he dug up white, tender, clean and spotless lotus roots. Then put it in your mouth and chew it. It's tender, crisp, delicious and juicy. Such beautiful mountains and rivers are the treasure land of feng shui that I have been searching for hard.
The following year, the family of Tang carp moved here, cultivated fields and planted lotus roots, and began to live by planting lotus roots, and named the village "Ouxi". After the Tang carp became rich, he did not forget the will of his ancestors. He built a big house in the village according to the geometry of the old house that had been burned down, and excavated 99 ponds, which were like white lotus roots, in order to remember his ancestors, and renamed it "Lotus Pond", which now belongs to Zixiao Town, Nanfeng County, Jiangxi Province.
Tang Xing, the grandson of Tang Carp, lived in the Lotus Pond with his father for 13 years, married Gan and gave birth to Yun Yan (1438-1457), then went out to make a living and entered the Royal Guards. During the period when Yunyan lived in her hometown, she especially loved the lotus root sparerib soup and fried lotus root slices made by her mother. They were crisp, tender and delicious, invigorating the spleen and appetizing, and beauty beauty was delicious. In order to make her daughter eat appetizers, the mother will also make sweet and sour lotus root slices, cold lotus root slices, and hot and sour lotus root diced to change the taste for her daughter. It may be because of her love of lotus root. Tang Fei looks like a hibiscus, with a graceful figure and fair and red skin.
In the fifth year of Jingtai (1454), Yunyan, who was graceful and elegant, and had a temperament of Rong Zhi, was lucky enough to be sent to the palace, but she still remembered the lotus root ribs soup made by her mother, and specially sent someone to her hometown to get the lotus root for the second time. In the eighth year of Jingtai (1457), Tang Fei was buried in Jinshan. In memory of Yunyan, the villagers named it "Tang Fei Lotus". (Excerpted from the Tourism Culture Series "China in Tang Travel Notes")