Folk Story | Taiyuan Tourist Scenic Area Album -The Legend of the Laohuashu of the Ancient Village of the Elitou Ancient Village

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Taiyuan is a national historical and cultural city. It has an ancient capital of more than 2,500 years of history. It is located in the middle of the Yellow River. The tributary Fenhe runs through the city and has become one of the birthplaces of the Sanjin civilization. It has created a splendid culture and formed a deep humanistic heritage. On this land, the people of Taiyuan have not only created a variety of dance, music, and painting art, but also created vast oral literature -folk story. We will successively launch folk stories in tourist attractions to readers.

This issue will continue to tell everyone about folk stories related to the ancient villages of the store.

Introduction to the Ancient Village

The ancient villages of the shop are close to Fengyu Shahe (ancient known as Tianhe) and a post road leading to Jiaocheng, Gujiao, and Louzhisha. The ancient villages are divided into five areas combinations. There are more than 3,000 stone caves, and the existing more intact is 460. Among the ancient grotto cave groups, more than 90 % of the two -story caves, and there are three groups of stone caves in the three -story and four -story building. Its stone cave is a cave dwarf cave. In addition to the interaction between the upper and lower courtyards, there is also a dark road tortuous connectivity in the cave. There are systematic ventilation, drainage, lighting, observation of roads, etc. in the cave. First, the country is rare and has high historical culture and military scientific value. The ancient village of the store was named a famous Chinese historical and cultural village in 2010, and was selected as a list of traditional Chinese villages in 2012.

Tutou Village walking cypress trees and Taisheng/Photo

The legend of the old locust tree becomes essence

/Wang Chunsheng

In the national historical and cultural village shop, the five old locust trees (also known as Jiahuai) and its second and third generations of the five years from the Sui and Tang dynasties were 300 to 600 The four ancient locust trees, they are branches such as dragon, crown like umbrella cover, lush branches and leaves, lush and lush, some are shaped like camels, and some are like dragons. It is said that they all have different spiritual and can remove pain.

It was during the War of Resistance Against Japan, a old locust tree was planted in front of the Sui and Tang dynasties in front of the Tutou Village. First, some villagers accidentally saw a big snake around this old locust tree; within a few days, Some villagers have the same dream while sleeping at night. Dreaming of the big snake on the old locust tree spoke: "I am the old locust in front of the drama building. Healing people's scabies. But for those who can cure, the tree tumors on my body will leak water droplets; those who are not cured, the tree tumor on my body will leak blood beads. " Most of the grain and supplies have voluntarily took out the support of the anti -Japanese guerrillas, and the necessary necessities left by the Japanese devils and puppet troops were plundered. The villagers are hungry and hungry, and their clothes are unobstructed. They try to avoid the "cleanliness" of Japanese devils during the day. He suffered from scabies. Due to the special situation at the time, he said that it was cure, and he could save his life. It is strange to say that when the villagers have no medical treatment, they happen to meet the old locust trees to become exquisite things. Therefore, the villagers were guided in front of the old locust trees in front of the theater according to their dreams. Hanging red cloth strips for the old locust trees, villagers with scabies scrambled to hold sickle, peel the bark from the old locust tree, quickly use the pot to cook the pot, filter the potion, and apply it to the patient's affected area for treatment. It is strange to say that after a few days after the potion made with old locust tree bark, scabies healed. This spiritual thing, one passing ten, ten passes, spreads all over the villages of Fengyu Eight Village and its surrounding villages. As a result, everyone scrambled to peel the skin of this old locust tree with a bluntware. Seeing that the bark of the old locust tree was stripped, the tree was dangerous. Under the condition of the growth of locust trees, they assigned a special person to choose their branches and cadres a little bark to be distributed in medical treatment for medical treatment. According to the elderly, when the villagers pray before peeling the bark, the tree tumor of this old locust tree flows out of the water beads, and when the traitor or their families pray, the tree tumor of this old locust tree seeps out of the tree tumor exudes out The water droplets are blood -red, and they fulfill the dream of the locust tree.

Source: Taiyuan Cultural Museum (Taiyuan Cultural Tourism Development Center)

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