Shandong Wudi Folk Tales

1, Yang Tianguan recognized his adopted daughter. Yang Wei, a native of Wudi Town, Wudi County, was an important official of the Ming Dynasty, known as Yang Tianguan. During the Wanli period, Yang Wei went home from Li Chao to visit relatives, passed by Yan Qian Village, disguised as a private visit, and went to a poor family. Tianguan dined here, although it was a simple meal, but he regarded it as a guest. Tiangong was sincere and sympathetic to his poverty. When he left, he told him his name and identity, recognized a woman in his family as his adopted daughter, and invited her to Li Chao one day. The appointed date is coming, but the woman is poor and has no gift, so she has to wash and dry the seeds of alfalfa (locally called "silver" or "benevolence"), grind them into powder to save face, paste them with dates and steam them in a pot to take them away. It was Tianguan's birthday, and the civil and military officials were already seated and prepared for the banquet. The attendants led the woman in, and she dedicated the steamed corn bread to her adoptive father. Celestial officials invited hundreds of officials to taste it. "My daughter is my father's birthday, and the gift is made of silver. Please taste it. How do you feel! " After tasting it, everyone praised it in unison: "Sweet and delicious, noble and rare!" All the officials immediately gave the woman two taels of silver, twenty taels, fifty taels, one hundred taels ... The girl returned to her hometown to help the village with 100,000 taels of silver sent by her adoptive father and officials. To commemorate this event, the villagers renamed the village name "Yan Qian Jia" as "Miss Yang".

2. The wisdom of the emperor. In order to maintain the rule of his feudal dynasty, Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall in the north and dams in the south. According to Haifeng local records, "from Dezhou to Leling in the north, Haifeng City (now called Wudi County in ancient times) in the east, Lisan in the west, around the city in the north, and Qili in the northeast, it is called China Ancient Dike." According to legend, there was a drought in Wudi County when the embankment was built, and the crops were never harvested. Today's Wudi City is devastated, the people are poor and hungry everywhere. The tragic scene is beyond description. The first emperor said, "whoever can take care of all the civilian workers for a meal will stop the project immediately." After hearing the news, an old man told Qin Shihuang: "A small family's rice can still feed everyone." The first emperor promised the old man to open the door at once. In fact, there are only four walls in the old man's house. How can he afford this 1000 people? The civilian worker just went in at the front door and out at the back door, but they were all hungry, wiped their mouths and pretended to be full of food and drink. The first emperor read the letter and thought it was true. He said helplessly: "The dike is finished!" . In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Yao built a village at the end of the dike and named it "Yaotou".