The Legend of Mother Lingshan in Jimo

Xiao Yuan, the Lord God of Notre Dame, was also known as the mother of Lingshan. According to "Wine Festival Week in Wanli Period of Ming Dynasty", when Lingshan Temple was rebuilt in Wanli Period, Yuan Jun's shell and a stone tablet were excavated.

"Monument" records that Zhaoyuan woman Wang was raised as a daughter-in-law by her aunt in Jinmen, Jimo in five years. She was ugly and scolded at dusk, which made her fidgety. At the beginning of Yuan Jun, she had no resentment. One day, she was fetching water in the east of the mountain, and met a fairy, who was restored to her true colors. On April 15, she climbed to the top of the mountain and sat on a big stone, becoming the "King of Qing Xiao Yuan".

Later generations set up a shrine to worship, and April 15 was regarded as Lingshan temple fair day.

Lingshan, formerly known as Lingling Mountain, also known as Lingzhi Mountain, is named after its shape. Later, it was called "Lingshan" because of the peak of incense, and was known as "Zhong Ling with beautiful scenery, outstanding people and the Virgin of the Fairy Mountain".

The whole mountain consists of three mountain bags arranged from east to west.

Lingshan is located in the south of Lingshan Town, which is 0/0 km north of Jimo City.

Altitude154.6m, E127 27', N 36 32'.

National Highway 204 runs along the foot of the mountain, which is the commanding height between Qingyan and Qingshi, and also the barrier to the north of the city.

Lingshan is a tourist attraction with lush trees and beautiful scenery.

Look at the sea stones in sunny days and the sea in the southeast; Cloudy days, surrounded by clouds on the top of the mountain, gather but do not disperse, known as "Lingshan wearing a hat."

In spring and autumn, birds gather in the air, hovering and singing happily, and sometimes a red Fokko jumps in the forest.

Lingshan is not only beautiful in natural scenery, but also has a long history, many places of interest, unique temple architecture and grand scale.

It is interspersed with many legends of the Virgin of Lingshan.

According to legend, Lingshan Temple was founded in Zhou Yuanwang in 5 years, that is, 47 BC1year. During the Wanli period of Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, it underwent two major renovations.

It was destroyed during Daoguang and Xianfeng years in Qing Dynasty. In the 18th year of the Republic of China, it was restored and expanded in A.D. 1929.

The restored Lingshan temples include Notre Dame Hall, Guanyin Hall, Acne Hall, Childbirth Hall, Baizi Hall, Taishan Mother Hall, Prolapse Hall, Dragon King Hall, Zhangpai Hall, Three Temples and Eighteen Handicaps Hall, among which Notre Dame Hall is the largest and most magnificent.

Ten Scenes of Lingshan: The Shell of Lv Yun: The Peak of Western Hills.

Yongdu: The western hills are shaded, the distance is like a wall, and the myopia is sloppy. The southwest gate has the highest stone, commonly known as the ghost king.

Cornucopia: piedmont.

Looking at the sea stone: On the left side of Notre Dame Hall, there is a stone that is not high enough. On sunny days, you can climb the stone to see the sea.

Black Tiger Spring: Located at the northern foot of Xishan Mountain, it is said that this spring was dug by a tiger that year.

Fairy Cave: East Mountain is at the west waist, which can sit high and accommodate three or four people. According to local legend, wind and rain can't enter it.

Yu Nv: At the western half peak of Xishan Mountain, there is a stone high to the back, and the surface of the stone is covered with water. Yingying is passive, and droughts and floods continue for years. According to legend, eye diseases can be washed away.

Eye of the pole: a cave on the cliff at the eastern foot of Dongshan Mountain can only hold one hand, and its water will not decrease or overflow. Wipe it with a towel and the water will be as full as before.

Legend has it that when Jiro took the mountain, he inserted the pole.

Cattle tracks in Sun Bin: West of Xishan, there are cattle tracks on the stone surface, which is said to be the place where Sun Bin Kirin stepped.

Iron rake tooth: above the stone surface of Dongshan peak, there is a stone that looks like a rake tooth.

Our Lady of Lingshan, also known as Mother Lingshan and Xiao Qing Yuan Jun.

According to Jimo County Records, during the Qianlong period, when Lingshan Temple was rebuilt in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Jun's relics were excavated, and a stone tablet "Yuan Jun Monument" was recorded in the Sacrifice Week of the Wanli period.

"Monument" recorded for five years, recruited Wang from afar, whose aunt was a daughter-in-law and grew up in Jinjiawan, Jimo. She was ugly, and being scolded at dusk made her fidget. At the beginning of Yuan Jun, she had no resentment. One day she went to the east of the mountain to pump water, and when she met a fairy, she recovered her true colors. On April 15, she climbed to the top of the mountain and sat on a big stone, becoming the "King of Qing Xiao Yuan".

Later generations set up a shrine to worship.

The record of "Yuan Jun Arctic" is a bit embarrassing. This story is restored in our present words. During the Zhou Dynasty, there was a woman surnamed Wang in Zhaoyuan, whose name was Shu Niang. Her parents died when she was a child, and she was raised by her elder sister-in-law. Later, she was sold to a vendor in Jinjiawan Village at the foot of Lingshan as a wife.

However, she is so ugly that 18 years old is not married.

She leads a hard life in her husband's family, but her efforts are not recognized. Her husband's family also criticized her in every way, and was ridiculed, abused and abused by her husband's family.

But Shu Niang is kind-hearted, trying her best to work hard for her family, being filial to her parents-in-law, taking care of her husband, taking care of the housework, being kind to her uncles, helping her neighbors as much as possible, and taking care of women, children, old and young, which won the praise of her neighbors.

One day, she went to Lingshan to fetch water. On her way back, she met a man wearing a white robe and riding a white horse and asked her for water to drink the horse. She agreed generously.

This man said to her, "You are the Emperor of Heaven, and the Jade Emperor asked me to tell you that on April 15th, you saw a cloud on the top of Lingshan Mountain, and that was your former subordinate family welcoming you to become an immortal. Please remember. " Then take out a green towel and let her wipe the sweat.

Cinderella took the green towel and wiped it, but the ugly girl turned over and immediately appeared, looking like a fairy.

After returning home, my in-laws were surprised. I didn't know until I asked, and the ugly daughter-in-law became a fairy.

So I immediately chose April 23 as an auspicious day to prepare my son to marry the beautiful fairy.

However, on April 15, Shu Niang went out for an excuse. She came to the top of Lingshan Mountain, covered with fairy clouds, and the sky was jubilant, so she went to heaven.

Later, believers raised funds and built Lingshan Temple in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Another version of Lingshan Mom.

There are many legends about Lingshan mother, and there is another version, The Legend of Lingshan Mother, which is included in Jimo Culture Network.

At the end of Sui Dynasty, there was a family named Li in Malan Village, Pingdu. My parents died, leaving only my brother and sister alive.

My sister's name is Li Shuniang. She is very ugly. At the age of three, she had big feet and smallpox, leaving a pockmarked face, which is really ugly.

When Shu Niang was nine, her brother was eighteen.

This autumn, his brother got married and started a family.

Soon after my sister-in-law entered the door, she thought her sister-in-law was useless, ugly and stupid.

When Shu Niang 18 years old, she got up on the morning of April 12 in the lunar calendar, and her sister-in-law fetched water in a wooden bucket for them, and she was not allowed to eat until she came back.

This bucket has a round top and a sharp bottom, so it can't stand on the ground.

Shu Niang went out with a bucket, tears streaming down her face. Buckets can't stand on the ground. How can she get water from the well? When you come to the well, you must jump into it.

At this time, an old man with a white beard appeared behind Shu Niang, holding a handful of dust in his hand, and gently blew on Shu Niang, and Shu Niang came back.

I only heard the old man say, "Who can live without sadness? I know you. Go home. Someone must come to marry you today. " The old man turned to the opposite side of Shu Niang, brushed the dust off her face and feet and disappeared.

Shu Niang came home and cried again.

When I cry, I feel my face burning and my feet burning. After a while, my face became pockmarked and my feet became small and delicate.

Shu Niang wondered, so she listened to drum music in the street and went out to have a look. I saw a sedan chair parked in front of her house, and a man came down: "My son asked me to take Miss Li home to marry him."

Shu Niang's sister-in-law heard that a son was going to marry an ugly sister-in-law, so she quickly took the man home and let Shu Niang meet him. She was puzzled to see that Shu Niang had become handsome, but she still said, "My sister is as beautiful as a willow, and she is ingenious. I brought her up. I don't know how your son is. " The man replied, "My son's surname is Jin, and he is from Xiajinjiawan Village, Lingshan, Jimo. Guanyin Bodhisattva had a dream for my son, asking the elder master to come over and intercede, and told him not to marry unless it was Miss Li.

Old gentleman Tai Shang met this young lady this morning. "On that day, Shu Niang came to Jin Guwan and married Jin Gongzi.

On April 15th of the lunar calendar, on the fourth day of Shu Niang's wedding, her son and Shu Niang went back to their parents' home together, and Shu Niang continued to be busy.

When she left, she picked up a jar full of water for her sister-in-law, put a circle of pegs around the jar and said to her sister-in-law, "I can't come to fetch water for you often in the future, as long as the pegs in this jar don't move, the water in the jar will be enough for you to eat for a lifetime."

On the way back to Gongzi and Shu Niang, her sister-in-law unplugged the cork next to the jar, and the water in the jar gushed out like a fountain. After a while, the flood flooded Malan village.

The person in charge of the village asked what was going on, so he sent a horse to drive Shu Niang out, and he was rushing to the eastern end of Lingshan to drive Shu Niang out.

Shu Niang got off the bus, understood the reason, looked up to the southwest and said, "We can't let our family suffer." As he spoke, he looked at a white cloud floating in the distant sky and took the wind to the top of the sedan chair. A tornado whirled down, flying sand and stones, and people vaguely watched the whirlwind fly to the top of the mountain.

When the wind blows over, I'll find Shu Niang again. I don't know where she is.

Without Shu Niang, people are anxious. When they found the top of the mountain, they saw Shu Niang sitting on a stone with her face facing south and a string of beads hanging on her chest, sleeping peacefully and kindly.

At this time, Malan's water disappeared.

Shu Niang has just been a daughter-in-law for four days to save her hometown elders, and she is going to heaven.

On April 15 of the following year, on the first anniversary after her family came to give Shu Niang a chance to ascend to heaven, an old man said that his hometown had suffered a hail disaster and asked Shu Niang for help in disaster relief. Shu Niang was full of energy and said, "This year's hail was left by bald-tailed Lao Li when he returned to his hometown in Jimo for five years and passed by Malan. Later, I told him to go to Fushan, cross Haiyang and pass by the water, only taking Feng Shui.

In autumn, Lao Li will go back to live in Malan. You should burn more incense in the fields. "This kind of thing spread slowly, and more people went up the mountain to seek medical treatment.

There was a man in Xisanquanzhuang village who accidentally poked his purse stick into his stomach. There was no cure. When he knelt down and kowtowed on the mountain and made a wish, his purse stick fell out of his stomach.

Later, these things were widely circulated, and Fiona Fang knew that Lingshan had spirits for thousands of miles.

Li Shimin allocated funds to repair the old mother temple.

When Li Shimin proclaimed himself emperor, Shu Niang was greatly admired by the people, so people gave him the title of "Fairy Mother", which was discussed by the monks and a temple was built for the Fairy Mother by giving alms.

Li Shimin was saved by Shaolin monks, so he had a good impression on Shaolin monks. I heard that the local monks in Lingshan are repairing the temple for the fairy mother.

Wei Chijingde (Weichi Gong), the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Palace, was ordered to allocate money and food to build Lingshan Old Mother Temple.

So at that time, the words "respecting morality for three years as a producer" were engraved on the beam head of the old mother's hall.

The fifteenth day of the fourth lunar month is also designated as Temple Fair Day.

On the day of the temple fair, people went to Jinan in the west, Yantai in the north, Qingdao in the south and Donghai Cliff in the east. Those who hurried to the meeting began to go half a month in advance. The whole Lingshan Fiona Fang is crowded with people: pushers, porters, singers, fighters, cattle buyers, pot sellers, giant dolls, people walking on stilts, and people selling sesame oil and fruits. You really have everything you want.

A scholar in Qing Dynasty said "April Mountain Pack Horse", which was called "April Mountain Pack Horse" locally. It means that at that time, when rushing to the temple fair, someone tied a paper horse, and there were too many people to carry it, so they all lifted their heads up.

Later, in order not to make the fairy mother lonely, people invited Dai Bai, Wu Sheng, Bai Zi and terminal mother from other places to accompany the fairy mother.

These five old mothers, focusing on fairy mothers, are always called Lingshan old mothers.

Lingshan Temple Fair has a history of more than 2000 years.

1992, in order to carry forward the national culture, Lingshan Town organized relevant units to rebuild Lingshan Temple in the original site, adding Taishan Old Mother Hall in the east annex and restoring Sanguniang Hall in the west annex.

At the same time, the original destroyed Jade Emperor Temple and Kannonji were restored.

The rebuilt temple still maintains the original temple style.

The Jimo Lingshan Temple Fair, which originated in the Zhou Dynasty, has a history of more than 2,000 years.

Now Lingshan has become a famous tourist attraction in Qingdao. Every year on April 15th of the lunar calendar, people come to catch the temple fair in an endless stream and gradually become a folk cultural resort.

"Every year, the 15th day of the fourth lunar month is the Temple Fair in Lingshan, Jimo." According to Wang, director of the Propaganda Office of Lingshan Town, Jimo, it is said that Lingshan's mother and Taishan's mother are sisters, and there are mother temples in Taishan all over Jimo.

People call the day when my mother became immortal, that is, the 15th day of the fourth lunar month, Lingshan Temple Fair, which is the largest temple fair in Jimo with the largest number of participants.