The first spring in Wushan
A long time ago there was no well in Hangzhou. At that time, the rain in this area is very even, and every household is not short of water.
But one year, the weather suddenly changed: there was no cloud, and for months without a drop of rain. The sun dried up the West Lake, cracked the fields, and even water for people to eat was hard to find. The government was afraid that the people would make trouble, so they invited many monks and taoists to build altars and do things; He forced everyone to bow down and worship.
At that time an old man was also brought; But he refused to kneel. When the officials saw this, they were very angry, so they arrested him and put him on the charge of "disobeying the government" and wanted to kill his head. The old man did not panic at all, but threw himself up to the sky laughing and said:
"I have lived eighty years, and death is not worth anything! Unfortunately, the people of Hangzhou will not have water to eat, and even you will die of thirst together! If you give me three days, I can find water."
When the official heard the old man talk like this, he thought: Is there really such a thing? It is good to look for him: if you find it, let it go; If we don't find it, we'll kill his head. So he agreed.
When the old man returned home, he called his 50-year-old son and said, "Go and tie up a bamboo chair for me to sit in!"
"Abba, Abba, what are you doing in a sedan chair?"
"I am too old to walk. I will take the bamboo sedan chair and go out to look for water!"
The son tied up the bamboo sedan chair. The old man turned into the garden, called his twenty-year-old grandson, and said, "Go and get two bamboo sticks and carry me away!"
"Grandpa, Grandpa, where are you going?"
"Stand tall and look far, you and your father, carry me to the wall to turn around!"
The grandson brought the bamboo stick.
The children and grandchildren carried the old man in circles above the Hangzhou city wall. Three times a day, nine times a day. Round and round and round, the bamboo sedan chair round for three days; Look, look, look, the old man looked nine times. At the foot of the Town God's Mountain, he found a plume of smoke that did not look like smoke or fog, which kept rising and rising, rising into the sky and forming a white glittering cloud, saying to his children and grandchildren:
"Where there is smoke under the white clouds is the vein of the dragon, and there is a dragon breathing out under the ground."
The old man gathered many men to dig a well at the foot of the town God Mountain. Digging and digging, digging down three feet deep, but there is not a drop of water at the bottom of the well! The official looked at what was dry in the well and could not be said, so he killed the old man!
The children and grandchildren cried and buried the old man's body. Grandson, with tears in his eyes, supported his father, and still climbed to the wall to circle. And they went round and round again for three days; Look, look, look, look, nine more times. They saw that the smoke at the foot of the town God Mountain, where the well had been dug, was thicker, and the white clouds in the sky were larger. Abba pointed to Cloud Duoer and said to his son:
"That smoky place under the white clouds is really a dragon vein, your grandfather is not wrong to find a place!"
They called many more men and continued to dig down at the foot of the Town God Mountain where they had dug a well. I dug and dug and dug down three feet and three feet deep, but still there was not a drop of water at the bottom of the well! When the government found out about this, they killed the old man's son too.
The grandson burst into tears and buried his father's body next to his grandfather's grave. Left alone, lonely, he climbed to the wall and walked in circles like Grandpa and Abba. And they went round and round for three more days; Look, look, look, nine more times. He could see the smoke under the ground getting thicker and the glittering white clouds in the sky getting bigger and bigger. Sun Tzu pointed to the clouds and said to himself, "That place under the white clouds that is emitting smoke must be the dragon vein, Grandpa and Abba, you have died so unjustly!"
He went to find many people, still at the foot of the town God Mountain dug the old place, one after another to dig down. Digging and digging, and then digging down three zhangs and three feet deep, until the bottom is full of bulging rocks, and can not be dug any more.
Sun Tzu was at the bottom of a well nine feet deep, dry in the east and dry in the west, and touching a large round rock, like the eyes of a dragon. He turned his heart sideways and cried out:
"Dragon, dragon, why don't you open your eyes! If there is no rain in the sky and no water in the ground, how do you ask everyone to live? I will fight with you today!" I just crashed into the round rock. Only listen to the "boom" a loud noise, the rock split a crack, the crack bubbling out of the water, for a while, the nine feet nine feet deep water well filled.
Çåä£ä£ of the well water, put the grandson on the well head; But he was dead. The people cried and buried their grandson's body next to the graves of his grandfather and Abba.
Since this well was built, people have no shortage of water to eat. Later, everyone went to dig Wells everywhere, and gradually, more and more Wells were dug in Hangzhou. But the Wells dug later were never larger or deeper than the first one. Therefore, people called it "the first spring in Wushan", and also called the lane at the foot of the town God Mountain "Dajing lane".