There is a mound on the ground in Sara Village, Yuantan Town, Qian Shan City, surrounded by descendants of the Xu family in Shahe who moved from Xujiadian, so this mound is also called Xudun. This pier is an inverted basin shape. With the passage of time, the shape of the basin will not change. The legend about this basin adds a bit of mystery to Xu Dun.
According to legend, the immortal Ding Mengchang rode a donkey from Tongcheng Pass to Huangmei, Hubei Province, passing by Lutan River in Yuantanpu. The donkey was tired and saw an old woman in her sixties cutting sesame seeds by the roadside. Mr. Ding asked the old woman: Is there any tea at home to quench my thirst? The old woman promised: Yes, yes. Mr. Ding walked into the thatched cottage. Where is the tea? The old woman said, please sit down, sir. The water will boil soon. Ding Mengchang went outside to get a donkey to drink water and entered the room. The old woman put the boiled tea in a cold water basin and waited for her husband.
After a year, Wu Jinyang, a fairy teacher, searched for dragons from Huangmei, Hubei Province, and passed by Rutan River during the Dragon Boat Festival. There is little dry food left, and he wants to buy some fried powder from an old woman in foreign currency. The old woman readily promised: Yes, yes. When Wu Jinyang entered the room, he only saw two thin door panels covered with buttonwood leaves, and each leaf had a mass of powder. Where did the fried powder go? The old woman handed her husband a bowl of water and told him to wait for a while. She steamed three pots of wheat cakes in succession, handed three pieces to her husband, and put the rest in Wuyang's wallet. Mr. Wang counted out a few dollars, and the old woman said that she would not accept anything, saying, which pot to carry when going out! Do you still care how many cakes your husband eats when you are good?
A few years later, Tongcheng Prime Minister Zhang invited two immortals, Ding Mengchang and Wu Jinyang, to inspect the geomantic omen of Yangzhai. When we met and talked about the world, it was said that there was a kind-hearted mother-in-law by the Rutan River in the west. After the matter of Prime Minister Zhang was settled, they went to the Chen family in Zhangfashan, Anhui. In the morning, they set off from Longmian Mountain and exchanged amorous feelings along the way. When you reach Rutan River, red clouds circulate on the western hills, and you arrive at Yuantanpu Street in a few steps. I happened to meet the old woman by the river. When the old woman saw that they had met before, she couldn't remember it for a moment, but the two immortals remembered it clearly: the old woman came to your house a few years ago to pick a fight. Oh, I don't remember. My mother-in-law didn't know they were going to sleep on the street until she asked. She said, My house is big and narrow. If you don't mind, go to my house and make a scene. The two happily entered the house with their mother-in-law. There is only one liter of octagonal brown rice left in the rice jar of my mother-in-law's house. She measured a liter of 20 cents and cooked half a pot of rice. She emptied the rice red shrimp out of the bamboo tube and cooked a bowl of soup with two eggs. Red pepper and ginger slices are fried with small miscellaneous fish in Lutan River, as well as half a bowl of half-baked rabbit meat from the year before last, two bowls of shredded radish and a cup of hot sauce in Shazhou. They were really hungry when they walked. They thought this meal was much more delicious than the meal at Premier Zhang's house yesterday.
After dinner, my mother-in-law boiled hot water and washed their faces and feet. The man who has known his mother-in-law since he started his family is still on the ground after five years of illness. Asked why, her mother-in-law said bitterly that the old graves were full and there was no place for her family to be buried. The two immortals looked at each other. Wu Jinyang told the old woman: You can bury a coffin under the tree of the overturned mound of the house, and it seems that the venue is not conspicuous. Please ask your honor, I believe it will be completed.
In the evening, the mother-in-law and her son, daughter-in-law and grandson crowded on the door plank shop and gave the shelf bed to two guests to sleep in. At dawn the next day, my mother-in-law got up to cook and saw that the crib was empty. It turns out that the two immortals have long since left. A circle was drawn with charcoal on the door panel, and a few lines were written: catch mountains and fill the sea with gold pots, and water ants will never invade; Platanus acerifolia leaves slant, willow branches stand upright. ...
Later, the old woman begged the owner for glass water on the dock. By the time the well was dug, the water in the well was gone, and all that was dug was small loess. With the help of the villagers, we put down thirteen wooden ladders to dig wells for soil and paved the edges with granite strips. According to the guidance of the immortal master, the mound is basin-shaped, and the coffin is buried at the bottom of the basin, so that ants can't attack and water can't invade.
Because the pier became a basin, Xu Dun's legend was left behind.