What are the legendary stories in Maoming?

According to the Records of Gaozhou Prefecture, it is said that during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Gaozhou City was low-lying and flooded frequently. It is like a wolf, destroying fields and houses, tearing wooden boats and making people suffer. At that time, there was a Taoist named Pan Maoming, who was determined to build a strong stone boat and rescue the Lebanese people from the hot water. ?

Pan Maoming is a man of great perseverance and determination. In order to realize his wish, he carried heavy quarrying tools from south to north, worked tirelessly day and night, and traveled to hundreds of steep mountains nearby.

Later, he finally found white granite as hard as steel in Dashiling, where he could build a stone boat. He suddenly danced with joy and exclaimed, "What a beautiful stone! The people have been saved!" Strange to say, his voice just fell, and suddenly a gust of wind blew, and a white light flashed in front of his eyes, followed by a loud bang, landslides, mud splashing, sand waves and mud fog intertwined curtains, slowly opened. He rubbed his eyes and saw a bright piece of jade.

He was so happy that he managed to bring the big stone back. Since then, he has spent more than two years building two stone boats. The first is a sub-ship, and the second is a sub-ship. But I saw the stone boat as white as silver, as transparent as crystal, as lotus petals at first. The mother ship is eight feet long and four feet wide, and the daughter ship is slightly smaller. In addition, he also chiseled a stone boat pole more than twenty feet long.

It is wonderful to say that Zhou Shi, though heavy, comes and goes like a stroke. It becomes bigger when there are many people and smaller when there are few people. No matter how many people or multiple things it carries, it will not sink, just like lotus petals playing in the waves. From then on, Pan Maoming was no longer afraid of floods. Whenever there is a flood, he takes a stone boat to rescue the victims.

There is a "Longshan" in the east of Gaozhou City, with spring-like seasons, beautiful scenery and elegant scenery. Pan Maoming practiced on this mountain. The Dragon King of the South China Sea knew about it and he was very angry. He made an appointment with the Dragon King of the Four Seas to seize Pan Maoming's stone boat.

Late one night, an unprecedented rainstorm suddenly appeared near Longshan, and flash floods in the upper reaches led to the collapse of Longshan. Pan Maoming knew something was wrong and immediately boarded the mother ship to take off and stopped in mid-air. During the braking time, the Four Seas Dragon King ran with his teeth bared. Pan Maoming waved a long and heavy stone boat pole and calmly took up the battle. I saw a flash of white light and a loud bang, and the stone boat pole swept the four old dragons. The boat pole broke in two at once, and the four old dragons were in unbearable pain and hurried for their lives.

Pan Maoming casually threw half a stone pole in his hand to the South Sea Dragon King. The old dragon was frightened and desperately wanted to escape from the water. This half stone pole fell into the cloud furnace hole. After the flood receded, the mother ship stopped in the air. Because there was no Zhou Shi pole, it slowly fell and stopped on a hill in the east of the city (later called "Pan Xianpo"), and the sub-ship also fell and ran aground near the "other cave". Seeing this, Pan Maoming shouted, "The Dragon King has abdicated, and the land in your is safe. If you don't want it, abandon it! " The sub-ship suddenly turned into a rock, and Pan Maoming became immortal. From then on, the Dragon King of the Four Seas never dared to make waves in this area again.

Later generations named the mountain where Pan Maoming lived "Panshan" and the nearby area "Maoming" in memory of Pan Maoming's efforts to eliminate pesticides for the people. Some people also made Zhou Shi's inscription, which was handed down from generation to generation: "A saint eats stones and takes rigidity as softness; The saint rides on a stone and sinks and floats.

The wind will sway and the water will drift; A lotus flower is like a boat in flood season. I have nothing left.

Feng You, the general of Zhennan, also built Maoming County in Panzhou under the name of a Taoist, and the address is now Gaozhou City.