What is the story about Shenxiang's rescue of his mother?

The story of "Sinkiang Saves Mother" is as follows:

The story goes: On the top of the West Peak of Mount Hua, there is a huge stone more than ten feet long which is cut into three sections, and next to the huge stone there is a seven-foot-high crescent moon axe weighing more than 300 kilograms. Legend has it that this is the year Shenxiang split the mountain to save his mother's place. The boulder is called "axe split stone", iron axe called "mountain axe".

One year, the Queen Mother birthday, a large Peach Party, the heavenly gods and goddesses have come to the feast, birthday worship. Jade Emperor's youngest daughter of the three Virgin Mary and the temple before the golden boy also came, during the birthday worship, they smiled at each other. How could the solemn Peach Banquet tolerate such frivolous behavior? The immortals talked about it, and when the Jade Emperor found out about it, he was furious and relegated the Third Virgin Mother to the Palace of Snow Reflections next to the Xiyue Temple, and the Golden Boy was knocked down to the mortal world.

The golden boy was born in a family named Liu, named Liu Xi, word Yanchang. The Liu family loved Liu Chang so much that they told him to study the scriptures every day, and when he was 20 years old he won the Candidate of the Xiu Cai. That year, the king of the imperial examination, Liu Xi went to Beijing to catch the examination, passing through Huayin, heard that the three Virgin Mary is very spiritual, so into the temple to ask for a sign, ask about the future. He looked at the beautiful, dignified statue of the Three Virgins, not only solemn respect, and then respectfully shook the sign box. Unfortunately, the Three Virgins were out for a banquet, so the guardian did not dare to give him a sign. Liu Xi reverently drew out the first stick, and was a little surprised to see that it was an empty stick. He drew the second one, and it was still empty.

He went to draw the third in fear, the sign cylinder shook and shook bumps and bumps, for a long time do not dare to go to the draw, the third sign fell to the ground, do not look at the moment, a look at his full of hope suddenly into nothing, the whole body is paralyzed. The original or an empty stick. Liu XI top fixed God, looked at the three Virgin Mary statue, pen on the wall wrote: "Liu XI pen full of gas, angry at the Virgin Mary three mothers. I have drawn three lots in a row without any luck, and I have received cigarettes here in vain." After writing this, he left.

Three Holy Mother of God finished the banquet, feet on the clouds, happy to return to the palace, the doorkeeper boy after serving, will just tell the things. She looked at the wall of the Tishi, ashamed and angry, could not help but curse: "bold madman, how dare you, do not give him a little lesson, how to know I am powerful!" So he summoned the wind uncle and the rain master, and raised a fierce storm with thunder and lightning. Liu Xi was on his way, when suddenly the wind blew, the clouds rose, the thunder and lightning flashed, and the rain poured down.

How could a weak scholar withstand the wind and rain, he stumbled and struggled forward, and finally, because of the rain and slippery road, physical strength, fell in the mud and water. At this time, the three Virgin Mary through the clouds, saw Liu Xi looks great, a table of talent, they have a love heart, immediately put away the thunderstorm, pointing a mountain and Liu Xi married.

Shenxiang clouds and fog, came to Mount Hua in front of the Black Cloud Cave. He loudly called out to his mother, and his voice penetrated through the heavy rock layers and reached Sanniang's ears. Sanniang can't help but feel stirred up, a hundred feelings in the heart. She knew that her son had grown up, a piece of filial piety to come to her rescue, excited, so she called Shenxiang to the cave. Sanniang knows that his brother Erlang Shen is very powerful, when the Monkey King also lost in his hands; Shenxiang and young, and Erlang Shen also stole the Lotus Lamp, the son which can be his opponent? Therefore, Sanniang told Shenxiang to go and plead with her uncle.

Liu Yanchang and the Three Virgins were married, and a few days later, they went to the capital to take the entrance examination and became the governor of Luozhou. The poor Third Sacred Mother suffered all kinds of hardships under that rock and gave birth to a boy named Shenxiang. She was afraid that Erlangshen would harm Shenxiang, wrapped up the baby, wrote a book, and gave it to her maid Lingzhi to send to Luozhou.

When Shenxiang reached the age of 10, one day Qin Guanbao, the son of Qin Guoyu, ridiculed Shenxiang for not having a real mother and being a bastard. Shenxiang was so angry that he beat Qin Guanbao to death and ran home, telling his father the root cause of the trouble, and Liu Yanchang had to tell the truth. After hearing this, Shenxiang resolved to go to Mount Hua to rescue her mother, and hurriedly fled out of Luozhou.

That day, Lu Zu in the futon closed eyes meditation, suddenly feel the heart fluttering, flexing fingers, Shenxiang to come to Mount Huashan to save his mother, thinking that this is a piece of righteousness, I want to help her to succeed in one fell swoop. Lu Zu will personally go to the bottom of the mountain to wait. Shenxiang came to the bottom of the mountain, saw a Taoist priest, and hurriedly saluted, "May I ask the Taoist priest if this mountain is Mount Hua?"

"What are you asking about Mount Hua for?"

"To save my mother."

"Who is your mother and where is she now?"

"My mother is the Jade Emperor's youngest daughter, the Third Virgin Mother, who was crushed under a rock on the mountain by her uncle Yang Jian, so she came here to save her."

"You can't go! You can't go! Yang Jian is a ferocious god in the sky, with a poisonous heart and strong martial arts skills, you are too young to be his opponent, so I advise you to stop thinking about it!"

Shenxiang stared blankly and said, "I'll fight him even if I have to break my bones in order to save my mother."

"Ambitious!" Lu Zu said to Shen Xiang, "If you don't mind, I would like to teach you the art of martial arts, I don't know what do you think?"

Sinkiang flew to the Erlang Temple and begged the god Erlang bitterly. He not only refused to release Sanniang, but also danced his three-pointed and two-bladed sword and tried to kill Shenxiang. Shenxiang was furious and felt that Erlangshen was being too deceitful, so she swung her divine axe and fought with him. Two people in the clouds and mist, knife to axe, mountains and water, dragons and fish; from the sky to the ground, and then from the earth to kill back to the Palace of Heaven; straight to kill the mountain shaking the ground, the river overturned the sea pounding, the sky and the earth darkness.

This incident alarmed the Great White Star, sent four immortals to see what happened. The four Immortals watched from the clouds for a while, thinking that Erlangshen, as an uncle, was too heartless to treat a child so viciously. So they winked at each other and secretly helped Sinkiang. The more Shenxiang fought, the more courageous, the more battle God, Erlangshen can no longer fight, only to flee, the treasure lotus lamp also fell into the hands of Shenxiang.

When he arrived at the Heavenly Gate, he saw many heavenly generals flanking a mighty and arrogant god, so he bowed and said, "My name is Shenxiang, I have come to save my mother, and I am looking for my uncle for the key to open the mountain."

Hearing this, Yang Jian raised both eyebrows, glared at him and roared, "Bold brute, how dare you act recklessly? Get out of the way as soon as possible and you'll be spared from death!"

Shenxiang looked at him and expected him to be Yang Jian, so she said, "Please give me the key to open the mountain, so that I can let my mother out." "Sinner! If I don't give you some color, how can I know my divine power!" Yang Jian took out his three-pointed, two-bladed sword and slashed down towards Shenxiang's head. Shenxiang lifted up her pestle and raised it, only to hear a "click", the knife broke into two sections, with the upper half flying towards the sky. Erlangshen was furious and anxious, and with a roar, he called the Roaring Dog. The snarling dog opened its bloody mouth and pounced in the air. Shenxiang threw out a round pill, and the snarling dog opened its mouth and swallowed it, and all of a sudden its teeth closed tightly and it lay rolling on the ground.

When Yang Jian saw that the snarling dog was dead, he released the divine eagle. The eagle's wings spread out, covering the sky and the ground, and its two sharp grasps are like sharp knives. Shenxiang also threw out a long pill, which fixed both wings of the eagle in the air, and it could not go up or down. At this time, the mighty Erlang Shen was purple and blue, headache body soft, sitting on a rock. Shenxiang forward, asked for the key to open the mountain, he had to order the generals to take out. Shenxiang took a look, it turned out to be a shining crescent moon axe.

Sinkiang carried the crescent moon axe: "Mother! Mother!" North Peak shouted to the South Peak, South Peak and shouted to the East Peak, this side of the call, that side should be, never find Mother where. He thought to himself, even if he had the key to open the mountain, it would be difficult to save his mother if he couldn't find her place. So, he cried loudly, crying until the sky was dark and the sun and the moon were gone. A mountain god heard Shenxiang's crying and was y moved. He ran and said, "O filial child, your mother is in the West Peak."

Shenxiang then shook the spirit of the number of steps up to the west peak, shouted: "mother! Immediately heard "son ah, mother here" echo. Shenxiang rise in the air, holding up the iron axe, towards the peak of the hard to chop down, only to see a flash of golden light, thunderbolt sound of the sky, the peak was split open a slit, the three Virgin Mary slowly came out.

Later, Erlang Shen also admitted his fault to Sanniang and Shenxiang; Shenxiang was also appointed by the Jade Emperor as an immortal. From then on, Sanniang, Liu Xiang and their heroic son Shenxiang were reunited and lived happily ever after.

Yang Jian, the god of Erlang, as a deity of folk beliefs and Taoism, has been the subject of numerous legends since ancient times, and has even influenced the names of places and mountains. Splitting the mountain to save his mother is just one of his many legends, and there exist "Journey to the West" and "Erlang Bao Scrolls", which record the mythological story of him splitting the Peach Mountain to save his mother.

Extended information:

Han scholar Liu Xiang (said Liu Xi, word Yanchang) to Beijing to catch the examination, passing by the Huashan Temple, the temple, inscribed poems in the temple, teasing the temple god Huayue three Virgin Mary [3], the three Virgin Mary anger want to kill, got the Taibaijinsing's advice, said that it and Liu has three marriage The Three Holy Mothers then married Liu. The Three Virgins were then married to Liu. After the three nights, Liu gave a piece of incense as a farewell gift and asked her to give birth to a son in the future, and to use this as her name. When she was pregnant, her brother, Erlang Shen, found out about it and raised Mount Huashan in anger, crushing her in a cave underneath the mountain.

Huashan's West Peak, there is a more than ten feet long boulder stubble was cut into three sections. Next to the boulder inserted a seven-foot-high more than 300 pounds of crescent-shaped iron axe. This legend is mostly about Liu Shenxiang splitting Mount Hua to save his mother, the story of the Three Holy Mothers, and there is also a legend about Erlang Shen Yang Jian splitting Peach Mountain to save his mother. According to the evidence, the story of Yang Jian saving his mother by splitting the Peach Hill should have come first. Later, with the passage of time, the story of Shen Xiang's axe splitting Huashan evolved.

Reference - Baidu Encyclopedia - Sinkiang Saves Mother