What are the legends and stories of Wolong Mountain in Beijing?

At the northern foot of Xiangshan Mountain, there is a hill that stretches for miles. Seen from a distance, it looks like a horizontal dragon. It is higher in the west, like a cock erected, and lower in the east, like the tail of a coiled dragon. So people call it Wolong Mountain.

According to legend, a long time ago, the ancient trees in Xiangshan were towering, and the villagers at the foot of the mountain lived a carefree life. Many people cultivate crops in the mountains and live a rich life.

Later, a gray boa constrictor and a big leopard came from nowhere. They ate up all the wild animals on the mountain and began to attack people again. The big gray python bit the villagers who went up the mountain to collect firewood. In less than three months, more than ten people were killed. The big leopard went down the mountain after dark and went to the village to hurt people and animals. He eats whatever he sees, and the villagers are disturbed by these two wild animals day and night.

There are only thirty or forty people in this small village, and there are not many able-bodied men. No one dares to provoke pythons and leopards.

At this point, no one dares to pick the fruit on the mountain when it is ripe. As soon as it got dark, everyone in the village closed their doors, and everyone was afraid that they would lose their lives without any problems. One year has passed, two years have passed, and the life of the villagers has become more and more difficult.

In order to survive, the villagers collectively burned incense in the Black Dragon Pool more than ten miles away, begging the Dragon King to have mercy and get rid of pythons and leopards.

The dragon prince was furious and determined to get rid of them and kill the people. He called the three princes and the black dragon and told him to hand over the python and the leopard at once.

The black dragon warrior dares to fight injustice. As soon as he heard that he was going to Xiangshan to get rid of pythons and leopards, he immediately ran out of Longtan, but was stopped by the old dragon king.

He told his son not to act rashly. Python and leopard have a bad temper and have been practicing in Nanshan for many years, so they are very idle.

After listening to his father's teachings, Black Jinlong nodded again and again. A few days later, instead of directly handing over the python and the leopard, he changed into an old Shan Ying and circled around Xiangshan Mountain to find the whereabouts of the python and the leopard. After seven or eight days of searching, he finally found out where and when pythons and leopards often haunt.

On this day, the black dragon came to Xiangshan to get rid of the gray python first. When he came to the cave where the gray python was hiding, he saw a chill coming out of the cave. I can't be rash, he thought, but I have to find a way to lure him out.

So he became an old man with firewood. Singing folk songs and chopping wood. At this time, the grey python is taking a nap in the cave. It heard something outside the hole and suddenly woke up.

The grey python has not eaten for more than ten days, and it is starving to death at this time. But it went outside the hole and found nothing. It looks from one side to the other. Suddenly, with a loud cry, Jinlong jumped on it. Seeing that it was a little black dragon, the python struggled with the black dragon without fear.

This black golden dragon deserves to be the son of the Dragon King. After several rounds, the python was overwhelmed and retreated again and again. The black dragon became braver and braver, and finally defeated the boa constrictor.

Seeing that it was getting late, the black dragon wanted to surrender the evil leopard the next day. But just as he went down the mountain, he saw the evil leopard staggering from the mountain road. He was about to dodge, but the evil leopard saw him and the black golden dragon greeted him. The evil leopard has had enough rest in the cave during the day, and it will go down the mountain after dark. At this time, it is full of pride. First, an evil tiger pounced on the black dragon.

After a day and a night of fighting, the evil leopard was beaten to death by the black golden dragon. Black Jinlong defeated leopards and pythons in succession and was seriously injured. He struggled to climb to the Black Dragon Pool, but died there because he was too injured to climb far. The next day, the body of the black golden dragon turned into a hill seven or eight miles long, like a Wolong.

In order to commemorate this black golden dragon, people turned it into a mountain called Wolong Mountain, and built a Longwang Temple on the mountain, which was dedicated to all seasons.