What are the folk history stories in Shandong?

Shandong folk legend of Qin Qiong back to the spring

In Jinan, there is an old legend about Qin Qiong: said that when Qin Qiong in the county office when the constable in Lixing, once holding a double mace riding a high-headed horse chased the thieves in the fighting with the thieves, Qin Qiong rode the horse violently turned back, due to hoof force is too violent, the hoof fell where the spring appeared, a spring of clear water from the ground bubbling up. Jinan people in order to commemorate him, the spring will be named "back to the horse spring".

Perhaps because of this magical legend, people in April 2004 to re-evaluate Jinan's new "seventy-two springs", will be located in the Wulongtan southeast of the 20 meters back to the spring as the 37th spring. The old Jinan people said that the bottom of the spring is now full of green moss, and the hoofprints left by Qin Qiong's horse in the past, it is a light yellow sandy soil, and the depths of the gravel will be overflowing with strings of spring beads.

Da Yu's Dragon

Legend has it that during the time when Da Yu was ruling the water, there was an ocean at the foot of Mount Li. There was an evil dragon at the bottom of the water, so Yu dredged up the water in Ji and Lok and drained the floodwaters, leaving the evil dragon with no place to hide, so he jumped up and scurried to the east. When the dragon went into a cave on the hill east of the city, Yu went up to capture it, and the dragon let out a long whine and broke out of the mountain.

Da Yu chased the dragon to the mountain stream (i.e., today's Hualong Cave, in the Berry Spring Scenic Area) and finally subdued the dragon. The hole that appeared when the dragon crossed was called Dragon Cave by later generations. That is why the mountain was named Dragon Cave Mountain, also known as Yudeng Mountain. The deep ravine at the bottom of the mountain is called "Hidden Dragon Stream".

Temple sinks into a lake

In ancient times, there was a Damingguo Temple in Jinan. Inside the temple, the temple building flying pavilion, standing pavilion; the sound of the Buddha's name, the evening drums and morning bells. However, the temple monks do not abide by the rules, often raping women. Legend has it that there was a girl who was very filial, her mother was sick, so she burned incense and prayed to the direction of Da Ming Guo Temple every day. After a month, her mother recovered. The girl went to Da Ming Guo Temple to return her wish. The monks in the temple saw her beauty and snatched her into the temple at night. The girl's brother heard of the horse and sword, tracking, suddenly, a thunderbolt, the sky collapsed, the Damingguo Temple sank into the ground, the place became a lake, is now the Daming Lake. The brother rescued his sister and planted lotus roots and fished by the lake to serve his mother. Those monks then became a toad in the lake, only drumming belly, but can never call out ......

Well lock auger

Jinan city has a Shun Spring and a Shun Well. Shun Spring in the original South Gate, west of the Shun Temple; Shun Well in the original South Gate to the north, "Shun Well Street" under the west wall of the road. According to the old legend, after Jinan flooded, I don't know which immortal (Dayu or Lu Dongbin), took the water jiao, locked to the well, and erected a thick iron pillar on the well, as thick as a human wrist lock jiao chain from the well led up to the iron pillar, so that jiao in the well well well "cultivation". Jiao asked: "When can I go out?" The immortal replied, "When the iron tree blossoms, you can go out." That means that the locked Jiao in the well will never see the light of day again. The iron pillars and chains on the well remained until the Republican era. For many years, people went to Shun Well to carry water, the iron pillar and chain on the well had rusted, and the chain was hanging down in the well as usual, but no one ever dared to move.