folk story

One year, Shandong craftsman Lu Ban came to Hangzhou with his little sister. They rented two pavements by the Qiantang Gate and put up the signboard of "Shandong Lushi, made of iron, wood and stone". As soon as the signboard was hung, the door-to-door worshippers broke the threshold, and Lu Ban picked and accepted 180 ingenious young students as apprentices.

The Luban brothers are skillful in craftsmanship. It's really ingenious: a carved dog can watch the door, and a carved cat can catch mice. After their guidance, all 180 disciples became masters.

One day, the Luban brothers were seriously teaching his disciples life. Suddenly, a black wind blew and the dark clouds in the sky suddenly turned upside down. It turns out that a snakehead has come to work on earth. The snakehead essence plunged into the middle of the 360-foot deep West Lake in Hangzhou. Blowing in the deep pool, the fish in Hangzhou stinks; It sprays water in the deep pool, and it rains heavily in the north and south mountains. On this day, the willow trees by the lake broke, the flowers withered and the flood continued to rise.

The Luban brothers and sisters climbed Baoshan with one hundred and eighty disciples. They looked down the hill and saw a piece of Wang Yang in front of them. All the houses in the city were soaked in smelly water, and men, women and children fled to the mountains around the West Lake. In the middle of the lake, there is a whirlpool of the boss. In the whirlpool, a wide fish mouth is tilted. The fish's mouth is getting higher and higher, slowly revealing the whole big head. The fish head stood up, and suddenly a dark cloud flew up and rose into the sky. Dark clouds float, float to the top of the gem, slowly fall, and a dark and ugly epigenetic emerges from it.

Black boy turned his bulging cross-eyed eyes and glanced at Lu Mei: "Ha! Beautiful girl, what do you do? "

Lu Mei said, "You ask that girl what she does. She is a skillful craftsman. "

Black epigenetic took a look at Lu Mei from head to toe: "Yes, yes! I see your bright eyes and curved eyebrows. You must be able to cut silk and satin skillfully. Go and make new clothes with me. "

Lu Mei shook his head.

Black epigenetic saw Rumei from her feet to her head: "Yes, yes! I think, with your slim figure and delicate hands, you must have a good needle and thread, which can depict dragons and embroider phoenixes. Come with me to embroider the brocade quilt. "

Lu Mei shook his head.

The black boy couldn't guess, thought about it, narrowed his eyes and said, "It doesn't matter if you can't cut or embroider, beautiful girl." If you marry my family, you will be happy to enjoy the rest of your life. " Say, stretch out your hand to pull Lu Mei.

Ruban separated his hands with a hammer and shouted, "Get out!" "

The black boy still grinned grimly: "My skin is three feet thick, and I'm not afraid of your hammer! The eldest girl married me, and everything is easy to say; If the big girl doesn't marry me, there will be floods everywhere! "

Sister Lu thought that if the water rises again, the whole city will die. She rolled her eyes twice and found a way. She said to the black monkey, "Don't hurry to marry you. Let my brother do my dowry. "

The black boy was happy when he heard this: "Good girl, I promise, what dowry are you going to do?"

"The mountain is high and the rock is high. I asked my brother to carve a big incense burner. "

Black epigenetic happily patted his thigh: "Good good! The black fish in the sky built a temple. There is a stone incense burner that you married, just to collect it! "

Sister Lu took Mei to discuss for a while. Lu Ban said to the black boy, "Water is in the east and water is in the west. What should we do? " ? You drain the water first so that I can start work. "

The black boy opened his mouth and sucked, and the flood in the city flew up and poured into his stomach.

Lu Ban pointed to a cliff on the mountain and asked the black boy, "Look, look, how about cutting this mountain down and chiseling a censer?"

"Good, good. Brother-in-law, you are quick to chisel, the bigger the chisel, the more beautiful it is! "

"The incense burner is high and the incense burner is big. How to move the heavy stone incense burner?"

"Well, well, as long as I lift my feet, it will blow black wind behind me; What is a small stone incense burner? Even a mountain, I can absorb it! "

People hiding in the surrounding mountains all went home, and Lu Ban climbed the upside-down cliff. Lu Ban swung a sledgehammer and smashed the first hammer on the cliff: his 108 disciples smashed 108 hammers. The cliff collapsed with a bang. From then on, a cliff was left on the Baoshi Mountain near the West Lake.

The cliff is really big. It looks white here and white there. How can we carve it into a round stone incense burner? Lu Ban looked at the deep pool in the middle of the lake, estimated the size, pinched a long rope, stood in the middle of the cliff, and asked his sister to tighten the other end of the rope and "pattered" around him for a week. Lumei's footprints drew a circle on the cliff. Lu Ban chiseled the details first, and one hundred and eighty disciples chiseled them according to the pattern.

Digging day after day, a * * * chiseled for 7749 days, and the cliff disappeared and became a big stone incense burner. There are three inverted gourd-shaped sharp feet under the circular incense burner; There is a round hole with light transmission on three sides on the toe.

After the big stone incense burner was chiseled, Lu Ban said to the black boy, "Look, look, my sister's dowry is ready. Please move to the lake at once! "

Black children want a bride. Lu Ban said, "Don't be busy, don't be busy." "You move the dowry and arrange it first, and then send a sedan chair to carry it."

Black epigenetic was so happy that he turned and ran down the hill. The whirlwind he rolled up actually sucked away such a big stone incense burner behind him. Black epigenetic ran and ran to the middle of the lake, turned into a snakehead and got into a deep pool; The incense burner rolled to the middle of the lake, slipped on the slope next to the deep pool, and was "photographed" at once, covering the deep pool tightly without leaving a gap.

The snakehead essence was smothered under a stone incense burner; Top up, the stone incense burner can't move; I want to blow a gust of wind, but I can't turn around. I have no choice but to dive desperately. The further down, the heavier the incense burner.

The snakehead essence finally suffocated at the bottom of the lake, and the stone incense burner was trapped in the mud at the bottom of the lake, leaving only three gourd-shaped feet on the lake.

Since then, the West Lake has left a wonderful scene: every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people paddle boats to the middle of the lake and light candles in the round holes on three sides of the stove foot; The candlelight reflected on the lake, reflecting several moon shadows. Later, this place was conveniently called "Santan Yin Yue".