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The Legend of Sanya Conch Girl Creative Culture Park

A long time ago, in a Li village by the sea at the southern tip of Hainan Island, there lived a descendant and his blind old mother. The latter, named A Long, was honest and kind, and made his living by farming and fishing.  The blue sea is as far as the eye can see. Every day, after finishing his farm work, A Long would go out to fish, sailing his fishing boat and singing a fishing song: "Come out, sun! The sea has blossomed with vegetative flowers for you. The morning wind for you, blowing clean dust and sand, I rowed a small boat, came to the sea, diligently cast nets for fish and shrimp." Three hundred and sixty mornings a year, the conch girl can hear the youth sing, every time she will support the coral, silently watching the boat driven by the dragon into the light of the golden sun.  One day, A Long still skillfully spread the net, pulling the net, there is no fish in the net, only a golden conch. Ah-Long leaned down and picked up the conch, and threw it into the sea. He then casts the net again and pulls it up, and there is the golden conch in the net again. Ah Lung grabbed the conch and this time threw it far into the sea. Ah Lung turned the boat around and swung it into another ocean. Ah Lung casts another net, which pulls up, and still there is only the strange conch. The youth straightened up, holding the conch in his hand, and noticed that the conch had a seven-colored pattern, glittering with gold, beautiful and unusual, which immediately attracted Ah Lung, so he decided to take the conch back to the voyage.  Aaron returned home and told his mother about the conch. The mother stroked the conch and said, "A treasure raised by the sea, stay if you have a destiny!" Ah-Long then put the conch in a wooden barrel and replaced it with fresh seawater every day to care for it.  The next day, A Long went out to fish as usual, and returned home in the evening, he was stunned, only to see the house cleaned up, the table was set with steaming hot delicious meals, the items in the yard in order, even two broken fish nets are also mended. This is not a dream, right? "Ouch." Ah Lung twisted his thigh, and the pain told him it wasn't a dream. His mother knew nothing about it either, and with a belly full of confusion and gratitude, he enjoyed a hearty dinner with her. Aaron went to the small tank of water and saw the conch lying peacefully there, and he said, "Good night, baby!"  Ah Lung slept beautifully, and he dreamed a dream in which a beautiful young girl called her name and said that she liked Brother Ah Lung for his hard work and simplicity, that she would like to wash and cook for him and take care of the house, and that she asked him what he liked to eat for breakfast, and that she stroked Ah Lung's broad shoulders with her delicate little hands, and said, "Brother Ah Lung, it's daybreak, and it's time to get up and eat!"  A dragon woke up from the dream, he saw a small water tank above a purple mist has not yet dissipated, the table is set with millet porridge, white mask, and two small dishes of pickles and shrimp paste steamed eggs, this is exactly what he said in his dream want to eat breakfast ah! After breakfast Aaron pushed the boat into the water and went out to sea to fish. Inside the house, the water tank, tank ripples ripples. Water ripples now conch, conch into a beautiful conch girl. The girl puts the empty rice bucket on the stove and cooks for Ah Lung. The girl pushed open the window, and out of the window came Ah-Long's song: "The blue sea, the beach is sprinkled with golden sand. The breeze blows gently, sending my boat home. The sea tide surges to the rolling green waves. Help me carry back the fish and shrimp in the sea cabin." Ah Lung drove the small boat and landed on the beach front. He took his fish trap and two fish and came home through the woods. Suddenly he noticed smoke coming from the chimney of his house. He hurried toward the house, pushed open the door, and the house was empty. Running to the stove, he lifted the lid of the pot, and there was a ready-made steaming meal in the pot. Aaron so wondered?  Aaron thought of a method to split gimlets with a bamboo knife in the coconut grove. From time to time, he poked his head to look at the house, saw that there was no movement in the house, and continued his labor. More and more gabions were piled up on the ground, and the young man was so absorbed in making fish baskets with the gabions that he forgot to pay attention to his home. The chimney of the young man's house was filled with smoke. The young man looked at the fish basket he had made with satisfaction. Suddenly remembering his home, he looked up and saw a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney. The youth dropped his fish basket in a panic and ran toward the house, reached the stairway, hastily collected his steps, and then walked gingerly toward the door and pushed it in. He found a strange girl helping him cook. He was stunned. He asked the girl: whose daughter are you? Where are you from girl? The conch girl was a little embarrassed to listen to Aaron. If you go to the wrong house, I would like to send you to where you are going. The conch girl carried her back and walked slowly towards the window, the girl smiled gently and spoke like a murmuring spring flowing: My family lives on the other side of the sea, my name is conch, I would like to be friends with you, labor together, sing together. The youth listened to feel difficult, two steps back, he said: But my family is so poor, you ...... conch girl hastened to the youth said: I do not seek to wear gold and silver, nor do I seek to have a big house, as long as there is a hard-working and sincere friend, than ripe pineapple honey is even sweeter. A Long still could not believe that such a beautiful girl could really suffer, and said, "As long as you are not afraid of suffering, as long as you are not afraid of being poor, as long as you are sincerely willing to stay in my house, we will labor and sing together." The conch girl smiled and nodded as she listened. Ah Lung got a daughter-in-law, and his mother was overjoyed.  From then on, A Long and the conch girl worked hard and sang together, and their life became more and more prosperous. They built a new house and a big boat, and the family accumulated several hundred taels of silver. With one more person to take care of her, A Long's mother's health was much better than before.  Time flies like an arrow, the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle, in the blink of an eye to the third year, the conch girl suddenly became preoccupied, often alone in the face of the sea to stare at the sea, secretly weeping. A dragon asked her if she is sick, do you want to ask a bone-setter, the conch girl said she is not sick, just ......, she wanted to say and then stop, the heart seems to have a hidden secret.  One day, in the A dragon repeatedly asked, conch girl finally said: "A dragon brother, I am the South China Sea Dragon Palace in the cultivation of a thousand years in the conch, has been cultivated, can be changed into a human form, the Dragon Palace are called me conch girl, the little Dragon Princess to treat me as a sister, three years ago, the little Dragon with the King of the Dragon Ao Shun to the East China Sea to visit their relatives, because of the common A dragon brother in the East China Sea fishing, hard-working and simple, loyal, gradually developed a love, and therefore the love, the little dragon girl with the King Ao Shun to visit his family, because of common A dragon brother in the East China Sea, hardworking and simple, loyal. Gradually sprouted love, so quietly slipped out of the Dragon Palace, 'self-invested', came to the side of the brother ......, now have to go back." Said the tears flowed, lost his voice and cried.  Ah Long heard as if by a bolt from the blue, he shouted: "Why? You can not go! Can not go!" .  Conch girl wiped her tears, said fondly: "A dragon brother, as they say, only three days in fairyland, the earth has been three years, the South China Sea Dragon King to visit relatives in the East China Sea is coming back, the Dragon Court has always been a strict Palace, if I do not go back, once discovered, will be severely punished. For the wife is not enough to die, lest even the husband is involved, so weighed again and again, all have no choice but to endure the pain of separation!"  Ah Long, despite a thousand reluctance, ten thousand reluctance, but in order to save his beloved from extinction, he had to nod his head and agree.  The next day, the conch girl for a good last breakfast, husband and wife relative speechless, who can not eat. Sitting for a long time, the conch girl sobbed and said: "It's not early, please A dragon brother send my wife back, you have to take care of it in the future!" Said came to the small water tank, turned into a purple mist, back to the shell. Ah Long held the conch ready to go out to sea, the old mother heard that her daughter-in-law was leaving all of a sudden fainted in a hurry. A dragon saw the situation finally could not help but cry loudly, tears, touching the sky, A dragon is crying in the dark, the conch girl appeared from the mouth spit out two gold and green beads, were given to the mother and son and instructed: "I return, you put the beads into a bowl of well water can be melted in the night soak the water, the next morning all the water to drink. Conch shells left behind for you, can avoid evil spirits, can generate wealth, grains and cereals, daily household needs, knock three times, naturally generated. In addition, the well in the yard leads directly to the South China Sea, when you think of me, please call the conch girl three times lightly, you can see each other." After saying that, Miss Conch made a salute to bid farewell, and disappeared in the blink of an eye."  After the conch girl left, Ah Lung put the two small golden and green beads into a bowl with well water infiltration, the next day really turned into a bowl of gold and green water. A mother and A dragon respectively with a bowl of gold and green water to the courtyard of the well, A dragon lightly called three conch girl, the well water suddenly appeared in the conch girl's figure, A dragon under the emotion of half a bowl of green water sprinkled into the well, the conch girl's figure disappeared. A dragon hurriedly let his mother drink the bowl of golden water, his mother's eyes from now on to see the light, he drank half a bowl of green water, suddenly feel strong. A dragon and try the shell of the conch, really after three rings, want beans get beans, want melon get melon. Since then, A Long often from the conch shells to be out of rice, sweet potatoes, fabrics, clothing, etc. to give to the family, the village people from now on do not worry about food and clothing. When someone in the village was sick, A Long gave him a bowl of well water and he was cured, and later people in the village often drank the water from the well and their health was very good, and the village became famous as a village of longevity. The people were very thankful to Miss Conch and built a statue in her honor. Now the people who have the destiny to shout three times at the edge of the well, the conch girl can still see her figure! Therefore, the conch girl has become a symbol of luck, love, wealth and health.