The legend of Huangshan Mountain
Legend has it that one day, Fu Qiu Gong came to see the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan and found him with a frown and unhappiness, so he asked with concern: "Respected Emperor, ah, why are you unhappy?" The Yellow Emperor, with a long sigh, said sadly: "When I get up early in the morning, I go to the stream to wash myself, my face is reflected in the water, and it is only then that I find my temples are frosted and my beard is gray.
Duke Fu Qiu said, "Everything in the world must be born and die. What's the use of worrying about it?"
The Yellow Emperor shook his head: "I'm not afraid of death. For I have many things to do, the land to cultivate, the rivers to control, the animals to tame, the plants to select ---- I must not die early."
"What can be done?" The Duke of Fu Qiu said in distress, "Only the immortal can live forever."
"Yes," Xuanyuan Huangdi's face showed a smile, "I heard that mortals can transcend mortals as long as they eat the immortal pill and become immortal." Duke of Fu Qiu, go quickly and find me a wonderland of alchemy." Fu Qiu Gong did not dare to disobey, had to take orders and leave.
After Duke Fuqiu left, the Yellow Emperor threw a stone into the urn every day, and there were already more than one thousand stones in the urn, which means that Duke Fuqiu had been away for three years. That day, the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan put a stone in his heart, and suddenly Rong Cheng Zi came to report: "Duke Fu Qiu has come back!" The Yellow Emperor rushed out to greet him, and as soon as they met, he couldn't wait to ask: "Tell me quickly, tell me quickly, how did things go?"
Duke Fu Qiu saluted: "Honorable Emperor, I have finally found a place for alchemy, it is really a fairyland."
"Where is that place?" The Yellow Emperor asked joyfully.
Fu Qiu Gong said: "There is a group of mountains in the south, just because the mountains are mostly black stone, I gave it a name called Yi Mountain."
Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan's joy was beyond description. He did not allow Duke Fuqiu to rest, and the next day he set out on the road with Duke Fuqiu, Rong Chengzi and some of his officials, heading straight to Yi Mountain in the South of the Yangtze River. When they got there, they looked up, and it was truly a splendid place. See strange peaks in a row, rising from the ground. A mountain of strange, each with modality, is really "strange peak side pumping strange peak, strange stone stone overlapping strange stone." Everyone is watching with their mouths smacking in amazement. Suddenly, from a cave in the valley, clouds flew out and hid the beautiful scenery behind the screen. Xuan Regulus Yellow Emperor was fascinated to see, not expecting the scenery to be covered by clouds, very angry, he used his hand to tear clouds and fog. Strange to say, the cloud had followed its course and flowed like water back into its original hole. The crowd was astonished.
Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor infatuated, also did not need to Fu Qiu Gong lead the way has been to the mountains.
Not far away, I saw a pool at the foot of a mountain, the pool covered with mist, Rong Chengzi crouched down with his hands, the water was hot! Duke Fu Qiu said: "I have heard that there is a fairy pond in the mountain, it must be this one." Regulus was overjoyed at the news, took off his clothes and jumped into the pool. The water in the pool is not hot nor cool, and the bath has doubled the energy, making people drift to be immortal.
Go further, suddenly a group of apes playing chase, their mouths all kinds of flowers, gathered on a boulder, only heard a whistle, a yellow light, the monkeys are gone. Xuanyuan yellow Emperor heart wonder, then lead the people to pursue. Where can we catch up? There was no road in the mountains, wild everywhere, ivy everywhere, more grotesque stone Wolf teeth, can not walk a few steps into a desperate situation. The yellow Emperor does not give up, and life rong Chengzi in front of swinging axe open, stumbling all the way to find. Climbing to a cliff, I heard the noise of the valley, and looked down at the apes, who had thrown all the flowers they had picked into a large stone trough. On a boulder sat an old snow-white monkey, whose back was being rubbed and tickled by small hairy monkeys. The Yellow Emperor thought, this must be a Monkey King. At this time, the old Monkey King had stood up and saluted the yellow Emperor on the cliff, and his mouth was still babbling. The Yellow Emperor was about to return the gift, only to hear a whistling, the Monkey King and the troop were gone again.
Duke Fu Qiu went to the Yellow Emperor's side and said in a low voice: "It is said that there is a regulus in this mountain, which can ascend the clouds and mist, and come and go without trace. I am afraid that what I saw just now is it."
Regulus yellow Emperor nodded, and led the people to walk down the mountain. Suddenly the intoxicating mellow fragrance came. Looking around, they saw a half-tank of reddish water in a stone trough, from which the fragrance was wafting. Rong Chengzi grabbed a step, with his hands to drink a mouthful, unconsciously shouted: "fairy wine! Fairy wine!" As soon as the Yellow Emperor and everyone tasted it, they began to drink wildly.
The next day, everyone split up to find the ideal place for refining. They climbed over the river, stones broke their legs, thorns tore their clothes, walked through all the peaks of Yishan Mountain, and finally found a good place. The Yellow Emperor then told Fu Qiu Gong to build a refinery platform, Rong Cheng son built a refinery furnace, all officials cut wood for pay. He himself was eager to find the potion of alchemy.
It takes 99 ganoderma, 99 ginseng, 99 pairs of antelope horns, 99 jade dew flowers, 99 leopard gall, 99 figs, 99 red pine, 99 ice mint, 99 vermilion balls, and 99 drops of manna water. It's not easy to get all these things together. However, Xuanyuan Huangdi made up his mind that he would never come down from the mountain if he could not make the elixir.
The seventy-two steep peaks of Yishan are inserted into the clouds, and in some places even monkeys are difficult to climb, but the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan has traveled every inch of the cliff. He had to pick wild fruit to satisfy his hunger. The servants could not bear the suffering, and successively ran away secretly. In the end, only Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor and Fu Qiu Gong, Rong Chengzi three. After nine years of hard work, they found all the herbs, but they lacked the nectar. At this time, Fu Qiu Gong fell ill again, so Xuan Regulus left Rong Chengzi to take care of him, and climbed into the mountains again. One day, he was very tired and saw a smooth, flat stone in Peach Blossom Creek, so he climbed up to rest. When he closed his eyes, he suddenly heard a jingle of sweet music coming from the woods. Soon he saw two cranes coming out of the forest, walking and dancing. Behind the crane, there was an old man with a white beard and white eyebrows, riding a snow-white deer, coming slowly towards him. He was startled, quickly got up to offer a gift, and asked him where there was nectar. The old fairy man smiled and did not answer, but threw down a square towel. The scarf was falling at his feet. When he looked intently, he saw two words on the square: "Red well." The Yellow Emperor was ecstatic and woke up. When he looked again, the square was gone. It was a dream. He got up and struck a stone at his feet in search of the well. The rock was so hard that it took a day to chip away a small chip. The Yellow Emperor did not lose heart. After digging for seventy-seven and forty-nine days, he finally dug out a well. The well water was sweet and fragrant.
When Fu Qiu Gong heard the news and came, his illness was good, they immediately began to mash all kinds of medicine into pills, and then raised the fire to open the stove.
They refined for three years, the original preparation of the mountain as high as the pile of firewood burned out, all the trees near the refinery platform were cut down, and the Duke of Fu Qiu and Rong Chengzi had to go far away to cut wood. Xuanyuan yellow Emperor in front of the fire, he filled the last piece of pine wood into the furnace, the firewood has not come back. Seeing that the fire in the furnace was gradually decreasing, the Yellow Emperor was restless and anxious. If the fire of alchemy goes out, it will be wasted. Once more he looked up the path, but again there was no one. What to do? The Yellow Emperor put one of his legs into the furnace, and then the fire began to burn.
Burning, the furnace suddenly a loud noise, shot ten thousand golden light. Distant mountains and ravines were illuminated. Duke Fu Qiu and Rong Chengzi hurried to come, and the Yellow Emperor was still calmly burning his legs. They pulled out the legs of the yellow Emperor, and the three of them looked at the Dan furnace, so happy that they did not know what to say -- the immortal Dan had been refined.
Those officials who had fled halfway heard the roar of Yi Mountain, saw the golden light, and knew that the elixir had been refined, so they came one after another. But when they arrived, the Yellow Emperor, Fu Qiu Gong and Rong Chengzi had taken the elixine, transformed themselves, and became immortal. When the servants saw that the three men were slowly drifting away from the earth, they begged them to be carried up to heaven.
Xuanyuan Huangdi looked at them and did not answer. Three people step on the auspicious cloud, gradually rising. One of the servants jumped and grabbed the Yellow Emperor's beard, trying to go to heaven with them, but the beard suddenly broke in mid-air, throwing the servant down and turning him into a strange stone. The Yellow Emperor's beard fell to the ground and turned into a dragon beard. Now the mountain cliff stone edge of the cluster of green beard grass, is when Xuanyuan yellow Emperor's beard become.
Now among the 72 peaks of Huangshan, Xuanyuan Peak, Fuqiu Peak and Rongcheng Peak are commemorated by them. In Peach Blossom Creek, the Danjing they used is still preserved!