What is the legend of "Liu Bowen Chops Long Mai" in Gaolan Mountain, Lanzhou, Gansu?

As far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, Liu Bowen's name is well known because of his knowledge and magical strategy, which not only made people today, but also made the generals and officials at the same time admire this talent. Later, due to a series of reasons, his ambition was not realized and he finally died.

About Liu Bowen beheading Long Mai, I think it should be a folk hearsay story, because most of its contents are not recorded in the official history, and there is no material to prove it, but you can read it as a story or as an anecdote, and we can directly appreciate the content of this story without saying much.

Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty as emperor, the Ming Dynasty prospered, and the people's lives were all due to the care of this son of heaven. And Zhu Yuanzhang cares too much about his descendants, but he is afraid that he will give up the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty, so you can see that Zhu Yuanzhang has carried out a series of means and behaviors, such as killing aquamarine and Li Shanchang, for his son and grandson to succeed to the throne smoothly and for the later Daming mountains and rivers to be handed down to later generations. But Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't trust me, saying that one day Zhu Yuanzhang found Liu Bowen and asked Ying Ge what else I could do to live in the Ming Dynasty. Liu Bowen told Zhu Yuanzhang that he had seen a faint dragon in the northwest before, saying that there might be a person in the northwest to disturb the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty in the future. Although Zhu Yuanzhang was very clear about some things, he was also an ancient man and attached great importance to numerology and dragons. Because according to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately moved his grave and did something in order to compete for the world in the later period, which is why Zhu Yuanzhang believed Liu Bowen's words. Plus Zhu Yuanzhang is a naturally suspicious person. He would rather kill one thousand people by mistake than spare one person, so he immediately ordered Liu Bowen to cut off this person's Long Mai in the northwest, so that it could never compete with the Ming Dynasty. So after accepting such an order, Liu Bowen set off for Gaolan Mountain in Gansu in the northwest. It is said that Liu Bowen chose a place in order to win this man's Long Mai successfully. Jiri? At this time, Liu Bowen took off his scholar's costume and put on a five-color cassock that didn't match his identity. He was mumbling something. With these words, Liu Bowen looked at the sky, took wood blade in his hand and chopped it down at the foot of the mountain, ending the ceremony. Some people say that after Liu Bowen was hacked, a hole was opened in the mountain range of Gaolan Mountain. Others said that after Liu Bowen was hacked, the sky immediately changed color. Liu Bowen finally wiped out Long Mai here.

In fact, whether the story is true or not, we can all think that the dragon with a dragon's breath in the northwest is Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty, and as we all know, Li Zicheng not only turned the Ming Dynasty upside down, but also directly seized Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which lasted for more than 200 years and nearly 300 years. But later, although Li Zicheng proclaimed himself as emperor, he lost his original hegemony when he confronted the Qing army. He was driven out of Beijing in frustration and became a hooligan again.

Perhaps this story corresponds to Li Zicheng, Liu Bowen, and Long Mai, who became king 200 years later.

Ironically, however, Liu Bowen didn't find Long Mai in Nuerhachi in the northeast, nor did he calculate that it was not the so-called northwest Long Mai who really ruined the Ming Dynasty, but the children of the Eight Banners of Manchu who were not far from their background and had surrendered to the glorious Ming Dynasty.