The story goes like this:
There was a scholar named Liu Xiang in the Han Dynasty. One day, he happened to see the statue of San Niang and was deeply attracted by her beauty. However, it's just a statue, with no temperature and no feelings. In order to remember Sanniang, Liu Xiang took out his pen and ink and wrote his love for Sanniang on the wall with deep affection.
All this happened to be seen by Sanniang in the sky. After seeing it, Sanniang was moved by Liu Xiang. Besides, Liu Xiang was not ugly and bookish, and then she moved.
However, one is a celestial being and the other is a mortal. How can we get married? So, Sanniang became a folk woman, caught up with Liu Xiang, told him the truth, and made them fall in love and became loving couples. Soon Sanniang became pregnant.
As it happens, the exam in Liu Xiang is coming, and Sanniang is pregnant. When leaving, Liu Xiang gave Sanniang an ancestral agarwood, saying that her child could be named "agarwood" in the future. The two sent each other ten miles, and they were inseparable.
With his diligence and cleverness, Liu Xiang won the top prize in one fell swoop and was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture. But just as he was about to take office, San Niang was in trouble. It turned out that it was the birthday of the Queen Mother, and a flat peach party was held in the Heavenly Palace. Immortals from all walks of life came to the party to celebrate their birthdays, but Sanniang was pregnant and stayed in Huashan.
However, when Sanniang's brother Erlang Shen learned that his sister had married into the mortal world, he flew into a rage and blamed her, thinking that he had violated heaven and wanted to arrest her and accept punishment.
San Niang doesn't want to listen to her brother. In addition, she has a lotus lamp protection device. No matter which demon or fairy, as long as the lotus lantern lights up, it will be intimidated and subdued.
Erlang God knew that he was defeated, so Tiangou stole it while Sanniang was resting. So, poor Sanniang was crushed by Erlang God in the dark cloud hole under Huashan Mountain. Sanniang gave birth to her son Aquilaria sinensis in a dark cave. As a precaution, she secretly begged Hag to send her son to Yangzhou to be with her father Liu Xiang.
Aquilaria has grown up and is sensible. Knowing that her mother was suffering under Huashan Mountain, she was bent on saving her mother, San Niang. He told his father what he thought, but Liu Xiang was just a weak scholar and could only sigh and shake his head. So agarwood left home alone to find her mother. He went through all the hardships and finally reached Huashan.
However, Aquilaria was only an eight-year-old child at that time. She couldn't find her mother and burst into tears. His cry was piercing and shocked the passing big Lei Xian. The kind big fairy asked her why she wanted to help him, but there was nothing she could do.
So he took agarwood back to his residence and taught agarwood martial arts. Fortunately, agarwood is smart and willing to work, and gradually learned six tricks and various martial arts, and seventy-three changes. On her sixteenth birthday, Chen Xiang said goodbye to her master and wanted to go to Huashan to save her mother. Daxian said he was ambitious and gave him an axe.
With his own skill, he came to Wuyun Cave in Huashan Mountain. He called out to his mother, and the voice came to Sanniang through the heavy rock. San Niang can't help being in a good mood. Knowing that her son had grown up and was full of filial piety to save herself, she was so excited that she called Aquilaria into the cave.
Sanniang knows that her elder brother Erlang has great magical powers and agarwood is young. Besides, Erlang also stole the lotus lantern. How can his son be his opponent? So, Sanniang asked Aquilaria to intercede with her uncle.
Chen Xiang listened to her mother's words and went to her uncle to intercede. Who knows that Erlang God has a heart of stone, not letting go of Sanniang, but fighting agarwood. Aquilaria was furious and felt that her uncle was unreasonable and joined hands with him regardless of his feelings.
The two men fought for hundreds of rounds, and even alarmed Taibai Venus, and sent four great immortals to have a look. After observing for a while, Sixiangu felt that Erlang was too heartless. So I secretly helped agarwood. Aquilaria sinensis finally defeated Erlang God and regained the lotus lantern.
Then, he immediately flew back to Huashan, raised the Xuanhua Huashan axe, and fought hard. There was a loud noise, the earth shook and Huashan cracked. Aquilaria sinensis quickly found the black cloud cave and finally rescued her mother. We haven't seen each other for 16 years, but we hugged each other tightly, with mixed feelings and tears streaming down our faces.
Later, Erlang God also admitted his mistake to Sanniang and Aquilaria. Aquilaria sinensis was also named immortal by the Jade Emperor. From then on, San Niang, Liu Xiang and their hero son Sean reunited and lived a happy life.
This story is also widely circulated because of the filial piety of agarwood.
Expand the data, split the mountain to save mom.
There are two versions of ancient myths and legends in China, the Liu Chenxiang version and the Yang Jian version, which respectively tell the story of Liu Chenxiang's rescue of the mother from Huashan Mountain and Erlang God Yang Jian's rescue from Taoshan Mountain.
Brief introduction of agarwood
Folklore: "Liu Xiang (Xi Liu, word Yanchang), a scholar in the Han Dynasty, went to Beijing to study for the exam, passed by Huashan Temple and wrote poems in the temple. He teased Shen Huayue's third wife in the temple. The third wife was angry and wanted to kill her, so she was told to marry Lu You for three nights. The Third Virgin married Liu. After three nights, Liu sent a piece of agarwood as a farewell and told him to give birth to a son tomorrow.
Three Notre Dame was pregnant, and her brother Erlang God observed that she was angry with Huashan Mountain and pressed the Three Notre Dame in the cave below. The third virgin gave birth in the cave, called "Aquilaria sinensis"; He also sent a hag to his father. When Aquilaria sinensis became an adult, she looked for her mother Huashan. When she met He Xiangu, she was endowed with the magic of immortality. She stole the axe of Xuanhua and fought against her uncle Erlang God in Huashan.
Erlang asked the gods to help him, and Aquilaria got the cooperation of all the gods. Uncle and nephew each showed their magical powers, and the gods fought in melee, and the outcome was unpredictable. After the Jade Emperor ordered Taibai Venus to talk about an armistice, Aquilaria split Huashan with an axe, rescued the Virgin Mary, and the mother and son reunited.
Today, there is a huge stone in the west of Cui Yun Palace, the Lotus Peak in Huashan Mountain, with a length of 10 meters. It is divided into three parts, such as a knife and an axe. Later people called it "axe chopping stone", which is said to be the legacy of axe chopping Huashan when Aquilaria sinensis saved his mother.
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