Why do rhinos get out of the pool and become emperors?

There is a rhinoceros river in Kangxian County, Longnan, southern Gansu Province ("Jialing River, now Gansu Ganlongzhi" is commonly known as rhinoceros river "), also known as the Western Han River. The river twists and turns, the river surges, and there are mountains on both sides of the north and south. There is a deep pool next to the confluence of Pingluo River and Western Han River. The pool is bottomless, and it is more than ten meters around. The strange rocks and trees on both sides of the mountain are reflected deeply. There is a big stone beside the pool, with huge and clear hoofprint and moss on it, which bears witness to the truth of history.

According to legend, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, many people who lived in Nanshan near the rhinoceros pond fled outside and lived here, including Zhao and Yang. Children in the mountains go up the mountain to herd cattle is the main activity. Every summer, several children go to the mountains to tie cows to trees to eat grass. They go to this deep pool to play with water. Children go there every day, and gradually they become more water-based and brave. One day, Zhao's children said to several children, "What's the point of playing with water by the pool every day? It will be more interesting if we dive deep. " Some children are too timid to go, but only Yang Jiazi is as brave as him and wants to dive. They agreed to wait until the weather became hot.

One afternoon, the sun was blazing and there was no wind. The two of them stood on a big rock and jumped into the depths of the pool. This time, I found it cool and bright below. There seems to be something not far away The two of us swam bravely to have a look. Haha, there was a big cow lying there and saw the children standing up slowly and swimming towards them. They are all cowboys in the mountains. Cows are not afraid to see more, but it is strange that this cow has only one horn in the middle of its head. Only one horn, maybe a buffalo, they thought. Cows don't know strangers, so they play underwater with them and let the children ride in the water. In this way, the two children found a more interesting place. The point is that there is also a unicorn who can ride and swim. They were so happy that they discussed not telling other children that only the two of them went riding cattle every day.

On this day, they played for a long time and it was getting dark when they came out. When they came out, they found an old man sitting on a stone by the pond. He kindly asked the two children to go there and gave them some snacks to eat. The two children were hungry and wolfed down their food. At this moment, the old man said, "Did you go down to the depths of the pool? Is there a big rhinoceros in it? " Two children, you look at me, I look at you, thinking, how did he know? But on second thought, maybe people have seen it before, so they agreed. The old man said, "well, when you go down tomorrow afternoon, bring me something to eat for Daniel." When you come out, I will wait for you here, and then I will give you something delicious and give you some money. " As soon as the two children heard this, they had good things, delicious food and money, so they readily agreed.

Back home, the two children excitedly told the adults what happened today. The adults of these two families came from outside to avoid chaos, and they also had some knowledge. Tell the child it's not a buffalo, it's a rhinoceros. Think about the cause and effect of this matter again, and I will understand it in my heart. They also prepared a red cloth triangle bag for the children, which contained nails cut by the old people at home, lost teeth and cut hair. Because there is a custom, careful people will collect and save the nails, lost teeth and hair cut by the old man and bury them together when the old man dies and is buried. It is said that future generations will prosper. The children don't know what's in it. Adults told us that the gift from the old man should not be given to the cow. You must feed our bags to the cow's mouth, for sure. The children agreed.

The next day, they went to the swimming pool. Sure enough, the old man was already waiting there. Because Yang's child is clever, the old man gave him a small cloth bag and said that it must be fed to the cow's mouth, for sure. The two children agreed and immediately dived to the bottom. Strange, the clear water is cloudy today, and all the cows are gone. The two of them swam around and it took them a long time to find Daniel. Today, their good friends are usually very docile and don't know what's wrong. He was restless, and his big red eyes were like two fires, which made the water red. When the cow saw the two of them coming, it rushed at them with its one-horned horn, and its mouth opened wide, as if to eat them. The two children were scared to death, so they hurried back. Just then, Zhao's child suddenly remembered something. They took a small cloth bag from their father's waist and threw it into the cow's open mouth. Yang's children remembered the small bag given by their mother and had no time to think about it. They hung it on the front speaker and turned and ran. As for the bag given by the old man, I can't control it. Throw it away and run for your life.

At this time, the waves suddenly rolled at the bottom of the water and the earth shook. The two children swam desperately upstream and finally swam out. Looking back, I saw huge waves rolling, and the river had flooded the boulder on the shore. What an old man! It is important to run for your life.

It was a long time before the two children dared to go to the pool. The swimming pool is quiet and shaded by trees, as if nothing had happened. They swam down the pool and never saw the big rhinoceros again, but left huge hoofprint on the big stone on the shore.

Later, when the children grew up, they stopped going to the pool. The Zhao family who fed the red cloth into the rhinoceros's mouth with the teeth and nails of the old man got married and had children when they grew up. The child was clever and eager to learn, and later joined the army to make meritorious deeds. Later, they had Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe and established Dasong. Yang's family, with a small cloth bag with old people's nails and hair hanging on the rhinoceros horn, is also heroic and talented. In this way, the Zhao family was the king and the Yang family was the general, faithfully defending the Jiangshan of Dasong. The old man is a master of Feng Shui. He saw through the secret and found the feng shui cave where the real dragon emperor was born, but he was selfish and wanted to put his old man's bones in it, and the result was condemned by heaven.

In A.D. 1063, a rhinoceros temple was built in Song Renzong with the inscription "Renji Hospital". 1073 Carve its imperial edict on the stone tablet in the temple. Later unearthed monuments added more mysterious colors to the rhinoceros river. Beautiful stories are handed down from generation to generation, interwoven in the alternation of dynasties, and scattered between heaven and earth to make future generations daydream.