Yuechi County Legend Yujiahe

Yujiahe River is located 5 miles east of Zhidong, Yuechi County. It flows through three courtyards of Jixian Temple, Jiangjia, Tangjia and Wangjia, and other important geographical entities, such as Shuangda Road and Xiangjiagou Village. It joins Changtan Temple River at Jiudao Turn, with a length of 4.66 kilometers and a drainage area of 80 square kilometers. With the pace of reform and opening up, the construction of county towns has been developing continuously. After 20 10 years, Yujiahe Park came to an end, and the former ordinary hilly area became a leisure paradise with clear water and green hills, birds and flowers, fresh air and tourists. Then there are rows of high-rise buildings around, and the city that is livable, suitable for business and suitable for travel has taken on a new look. The house with beautiful environment, convenient transportation, reasonable design and comfortable living has ushered in a new owner and played a harmonious movement.

Leisure men, women and children are enjoying the prosperity of modern cities, enjoying the happiness of the new era, chatting, recalling the past, talking about Yujiahe's past life and planning its bright future. Among them, the legend of the origin of Yujiahe is rich in content. Among the complicated versions, the author chose a touching one, which is now described as follows, in order to provide dinner for readers.

One midsummer day a few years ago, Yu Hongxing, a rural doctor who lives in Zhangjiagou, east of Yuechi County, just wanted to lie down and rest after lunch. A young man rushed over and knelt down and cried. He said that his mother suddenly vomited and vomited, and her whole body was shaking badly. She is very ill and needs immediate treatment. The old doctor in his sixties didn't finish listening. He got impatient and pulled him up. He even said, okay! Life is at stake. Go now! The doctor, who values the patient's life above everything else, immediately picked up his wallet containing stationery and commonly used medicines, picked up his crutches and prepared to go out. At this moment, suddenly there was thunder, lightning tore up the clouds and the sky, and the rain poured down, and soon the water leveled off. Doctor Yu pulled the young man to leave, and his ten-year-old granddaughter held his waist and cried that it was raining heavily and wouldn't let the old man go out. Mrs. Yu and her daughter-in-law also tried to dissuade them, saying that they would wait until the rain subsided. The old doctor raised his voice and said that it is important to save people. Even if you lose your knife, you should go forward at once. Yu is the doctor's grandson, and he knows that grandpa's attitude towards patients has always been responsive, and nothing can stop him. So he went to get rain gear and handed it to them. He said with tears in his eyes: saving people is like putting out a fire. It is urgent for grandpa to treat the disease. Last December night, it was very cold and it snowed heavily. It was midnight and the whole family discouraged it. Did grandpa stop? It's urgent now, let grandpa go. He twisted his sister's hand and made way.

Doctor Yu and the young man quickly put on the hemp fiber, put on their hats and rushed out of the room. When they braved the downpour and quickly came to the river at the bottom of Zhangjiagou, they were dumbfounded:

The flood was wrapped in sediment and washed down with the stalks and vines of crops. The water level has exceeded the river bank, the crops have been flooded a lot, and the river surface has doubled. The stone beach more than two feet wide is gone. Jumping piers (square piers at a certain distance, for people to step across the river) standing on the stone beach have been flooded, and only when the water waves fall, the vague stone tops occasionally appear. How high the stone beach is, there is a big pond. The waves are surging, thundering and shocking. The risk of crossing the river at this time is unimaginable.

In the face of danger, the young man was anxious and afraid, crying and saying, if only there were a bridge, but it would be difficult to walk along the river! How can we survive drowning? My mother will wait until she dies! Oh, my God, what shall we do now?

The old doctor quickly comforted: it is important to save your mother. Don't be afraid. Let's cross the river quickly. After that, I rolled up my clothes, tied my pants, took off my sandals, stepped barefoot into the flood, and made steady progress. He went to the front of the jumping stone and stretched his foot first? Over the rolling rapids, tiptoe on the edge of the jumping stone, after repeated experiments, step on it before moving forward. So careful and steady. Yu Hongxing, while advancing, loudly encouraged young people to be bold and cautious with the volume of the roar over the water. According to his method, he will cross the river smoothly. Then the two men made steady progress. Seeing that victory is in sight, it takes only three steps to reach the other shore. A more violent flood with a group of loofah vines rushed to his feet from the upstream. Because of the sudden strength, the doctor couldn't escape and resist earning, so he was wrapped in vines, washed two feet away by the flood and buried by the flood. The young man shook his body a few times with exclamation. "My God!" A cry also poured into the flood peak.

Easy to rise and easy to fall. Soon the rain stopped and the flash floods subsided. When the families and neighbors of both sides were full of grief and salvaged the old and young ashore, the families fainted in grief on the body of the deceased. The villagers who had been treated by Yu Hongxing came from dozens of miles away with tears in their eyes when they learned the bad news. Everyone cried because of the loss of a good doctor with high moral character and superb medical skills, and the mountains and rivers sang for it. The funeral procession was lined up for miles.

After Yu Hongxing's death, his only son, Yu Jifu, knelt before the spirit with grief. He knew that the old man had seen many people being swallowed up by the flood, and he was determined to cross the river and build a bridge for his neighbors. Moreover, he has worked hard for many years and vowed to the doctor's body: Father, your last wish-to build a bridge, will certainly come true for you. If you don't achieve your goal, you will never be considered a person! Cry like a crybaby.

Yu Jifu is a loyal doer, and he is famous for his exquisite woodworking art. He carved vivid patterns on furniture such as beds and cabinets. In order to raise enough money to build the bridge, he worked day and night. Unfortunate weather, go out to give people a dowry, anxious to deal with it until late at night. On my way home, I slipped and fell off a high rock, and my legs were shattered. Although the treatment cost my father's savings, it was still ineffective, leading to paralysis.

Yu Jifu's disability caused family poverty. Faced with the dilemma that both mother and herself need to be taken care of, a pair of young children need to be educated, and the burden of the whole family falls on his wife's shoulders, he lies and sighs all day.

Yu Jifu's eldest son Yu is 12 years old. He is smart, diligent, precocious and filial. Seeing that his father was depressed, he decided to help him out. On this day, he and his sister took their mother to the Pantheon to burn incense and pray. On the way, they met the charity of the monk. His heart moved: Why don't you learn from Master and take your sister to collect money from people with kindness?

When I got home, he explained his plan. Although the family does not agree, there is no other way but to let nature take its course. Just another beggar came to the door with a lotus flower. Inspired by this, he made two pairs of "Lotus Waterfalls" out of bamboo and asked people to write lyrics. Then I took my sister to worship the old folk art as a teacher and learned the singing skills of Lotus Fall.

When everything was ready, the brother and sister came to the rural towns and sang to everyone that his grandfather was very sad to see so many people drowning in the river, so he had the desire to build a bridge, and for this reason, he scrimped and saved money to accumulate construction funds. In order to realize the old man's last wish to build a bridge, his father worked hard to make money. Why grandpa died, why dad was paralyzed, why Yu took his sister out to raise money ... The two brothers and sisters looked happy when they sang, and everyone cried when they heard the touching place.

Under the influence of my brothers and sisters, the neighbors took action and built a stone bridge on the street. Because this bridge is the wish and unremitting struggle of three generations in Yu Jia, it can be successfully realized through the joint efforts of neighbors, so it is affectionately called Yu Jia Bridge. Later, because of this bridge, people called this small river Yujia River. (Yu Hongyuan tells)