The origin of Lao Long's visit to his mother on May 25th.

The origin of "On May 25th, Lao Long came to visit his mother" is as follows:

On the bank of Zhanghe River south of Chengfuji, there is Zhanghuatai left by King Chu Ling in those days. Although it has a long history, it is magnificent and magnificent. Go further along the Zhanghe River, and there is a small house by the river. There lived a man named Zhang in the hut, whose name was unknown. This man has no brothers or sisters and is an only child. He got married in his early years, and his parents hoped to have a grandson in front of him to add some happiness to the family.

But until july rhapsody was 18, his parents died one after another, and his wife never laughed. There are no men and women around, and Zhang Laohan and his wife feel very lonely. Send it if you have nothing to do, burn incense and worship Buddha every day, which is very pious. Two years later, Zhang's wife was pregnant, and her stomach grew bigger every day. Ten months have passed, and there is no sign of labor. This makes the old man very upset.

When Zhang Laohan was forty-five years old, Zhang's wife was thirty-nine. Suddenly one day, her abdominal pain was like a twinge, the fetus fell, and the child who was pregnant for three years was finally born. However, when the "fetus" landed, Zhang Laohan was surprised to find out where there was a fetus. It's obviously round meatballs!

Zhang Laohan was angry and annoyed: God will play tricks on people. He looks forward to the stars and the moon every day, and his family has a descendant. Who knows that this monster stayed in his mother's stomach for three years, but he was born a meatball! In a rage, he chopped the meatballs with a knife.

This division is irrelevant. The sight in front of him scared the old man out of his wits: a small blue snake stretched into a ball, swam to Zhang's wife, came to Zhang's chest, rolled into a ball and began to nurse by itself. Although the old man was afraid, the snake was born by his wife after all, and he couldn't bear to hurt it and let it grow.

Snakes eat breast milk and grow fast. After three months, they grew to more than a few feet. The hut is too small for the snake to hide. He crawled out of the house and lived by the river, but he still came back to his mother to nurse every day. Women are afraid of snakes and never dare to see them again. Every time they hear the noise outside the house and know that it is coming, they are terrified out of their wits and faint.

The old man was completely angry. He secretly ground a straw cutter, so he had to cut it in half when the snake was unprepared. Cut on the tail with a shovel, and the snake twisted desperately. Under the severe pain, the hut was swept down and the old woman was crushed to death.

Zhang Laohan wept bitterly and lamented the hardships of life. Unfortunately, except for daily expenses, some small money he usually earned was spent on supporting Buddhism. Now the old woman has died tragically and has no money to buy a coffin to bury her wife.

I don't know that night, a strange wind suddenly blew and it was very dark. The wind rolled up the old woman's body and put it on the flower table. A giant snake wound around a flower stand and cried. Its voice is heavy and sad, and everyone will burst into tears. Seven days later, the snake disappeared.

On May 25th of the second lunar month, the long snake came back to offer sacrifices to his mother and cried around Zhang Huatai for three days. It rained heavily for three days in Zhanghuatai.

Later, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it was commonly known as "Lao Long came to visit his mother?" People will see the serpent come back to offer sacrifices to their mother. So, people built a cemetery on the flower terrace, and the snake was the dragon. People call this cemetery "Longtai", and villagers often come to worship. Later, people built a temple next to the cemetery. This temple is now Longtai Temple.

Proverbs about the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

"On the 25th day of the fifth lunar month, you will know the happiness and sadness of the year."

This proverb means that by May 25th, we will know the crop output of that year. Broadly speaking, if there is rain on May 25th in dry weather, the crops will grow better and increase production. On the contrary, if it still doesn't rain on May 25th, there will be less rain in the future, and crops in arid land will continue to grow, and production will be reduced due to lack of water.