Yang Yongsheng

In ancient times, there lived a big family named Huang on the Purple Mountain. The population is prosperous and there are thousands of families; Diligent housekeeping, fertile soil is boundless.

Although he lives in a deep forest, he is a well-known man who can read and write. Kyushu 18 provinces all have children and parents-in-law. People all want to marry this family and are willing to send their daughters to this land close to home to carry on the family line and achieve great things.

At that time, there were hundreds of miles of mountains in Huanglong: "The rich have distant relatives in the mountains, but the poor don't ask in the streets;" Ju Biao is not rich, but he has folk songs at home and aims to study high.

Parents Huang Zongxia, centenarian, full of children and grandchildren. Throughout his life, he advocated: male ploughing and female weaving, expanding the territory and protecting the country. Use your life's energy to maintain reunion and unity. Carry out the idea passed down from generation to generation in the family and the unified concept of eating a pot of rice, drinking a well water, pushing a plate of grinding and plowing together. ...

There are thousands of people in the family, and one person is in charge. All the brothers and sisters in this family, men, women and children, just work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Everyone's "food, clothing, housing and transportation"; The "teaching management" of children is completely managed by the "Home Affairs Office" under the old Huang Man clan. All the family members are in the same pot. If children and grandchildren live in separate rooms and come to relatives and friends, the civil affairs department will arrange small restaurants to hold banquets and prepare meals as appropriate. The whole thing is a big pot of rice, no small smoke. ...

After a long time, I can't help being dissatisfied with the closed housekeeping of old Huang Man who lived in summer! But this impetuous dissent, no one dared to say in front of the old Huang Man Zongxia.

However, the weather-beaten old man also realized the betrayal of his children and grandchildren from people's actions! The old man is very sad. But he doesn't want to say anything, because he knows the philosophy of "loud voice, loud voice". Once things are clear, it is difficult to control.

So, on the one hand, Emperor Zongxia prayed for Buddha and immortals, and went to the Queen Mother Temple of the West to burn incense and pray! On the one hand, it educated and trained three sons, Huang Tong, Huang Hua and Huang Meng. This family is so dangerous to maintain. ...

On his deathbed, the old man called Huang Tong, Huang Hua and Huang Meng to his side and said, "Three people are United, and loess turns into gold. I can't. You three brothers want Qi Xin to work together, be thrifty and live a good life. May this family be a big family handed down from generation to generation and United forever. I have nothing left for you in my life, just the bauhinia tree in this yard. She is a symbol of reunion! Remember, bauhinia is inseparable from immortality! The bauhinia tree died and then parted. "

Later, the three brothers followed their father's wishes and jointly managed the family and finances. Their son also has a grandson; Grandchildren also have sons; My son has a grandson again. In this way, father and son, son and grandson, son and grandson ... all got married one after another. It's really tiring for a large family to handle housework well. Brothers can respect each other and live in harmony. And sister-in-law, it is different. First, pots and pans stumbled and lost face! Slowly, my mouth broke, my eyes became red, and the contradiction became more and more fierce. ! Daughters-in-law all get points.

At this time, the three brothers, who are over 100 years old, are all old, and only their father's stubborn traditional thoughts are in their minds. They are as stiff as terracotta warriors.

The daughter-in-law and sister-in-law had no choice but to burn a pot of boiling water and pour it on the bauhinia tree!

Bauhinia tree is dead. The three brothers watched the housekeeping run out of luck! My father's last wish will come to nothing. My heart pierced my chest like an arrow, and I was very sad! I cried under the bauhinia tree until it was dark, until I moved the Queen Mother of Holy Day.

So the Virgin sent a boy to scoop water from the Tianhe River and pour it on the bauhinia tree, and the bauhinia slowly revived. ...

Later, in the transformation of time and space and the vicissitudes of life, the Queen Mother of the West felt that the tribal housekeeping was indeed a bit behind the times. The outside world has experienced barbarism and entered the threshold of civilization! The royal family is still content with the status quo and closed to the world. Even backward languages can't communicate with the outside world if they don't change. So the Queen Mother of the West sent her children to transplant the Bauhinia tree to Hong Kong by the sea. Communicate north and south, turn over a new leaf. Later, bauhinia became the city flower there.

With Bauhinia moving eastward inland, traditional housekeeping has become history! The royal family is also divided. Breeding and migrating to the northwest loess plateau. ...

Archaeologists and historians now believe that the Loess Plateau in northwest China was once the place where descendants of Huanglong people lived and multiplied. There, they crossed the threshold of transition from barbarism to civilization and constantly promoted the progress of social history.

-The story is based on the dictation of Yin Ting, an old Wang Man.

Spread in Huanglong, Shaanxi

Collected in Jiaolong town

—— Selected from Folklore of Houtu, Longxiang China Huanglong Folk Literature, the first episode.

Note: "Amethyst Mountain". The current Jietou Temple. In ancient times, it was called Feng Yi Barrier. It is the watershed between the Guanzhong barrier on the land of Sanqin and the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi.

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Yang Yongsheng's pen name: Ye Chen, Jiutian, Huanglong, Oasis, Blue Moon, Huanglong, Shaanxi. Title of author and associate researcher. Chairman of the first Huanglong County Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Chairman of the first Huanglong Writers Association: editor-in-chief of Huanglong magazine; Editor-in-chief of the literary newspaper Greenland; Editor-in-Chief of Huanglong Window. His works include: Collection of Folk Stories, Collection of Folk Songs, Collection of Folk Proverbs, Collection of Greenland, Rhyme of Longxiang Town, Fenghua unofficial history, Houtu of Longxiang Town, Singing, Yin Chang of Longtan, Rhyme of Heart Flow, etc. Now he is a member of China Prose Society; Member of Shaanxi Writers Association; Member of Shaanxi Branch of China Folk Artists Association; Xi, director of Qin Zhuan Hanwa Research Association; Director of Yan 'an Writers Association; Researcher, China Festival Culture Research Center, Northwest University; Researcher, Xi 'an Research Institute of Longfeng Culture, China; Huanglong member CPPCC, etc.