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The source of flowing water and the influence of merger war

Influence: It has brought profound disasters to people's lives, but it has also promoted the exchanges and integration between various regions in the Central Plains and neighboring ethnic groups, laying the foundation for the establishment of a unified multi-ethnic centralized feudal country in the Qin and Han Dynasties. All the philosophers are concerned with the world, and hundreds of new theories have come out one after another, which have gathered into the source of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

Flowing water at the source is a common idiom in Chinese poetry, which comes from Zhu's sentence "Come for flowing water at the source" in the Song Dynasty. There is also a folk myth about "flowing water at the source" in China.

According to legend, there was a drought one year, and there was not a drop of water on Dapingling in Songxian County. The seedlings turned yellow and people gasped with thirst. If we don't get some water, people will die of thirst.

There is a young man in the village named Shuiwa, who is five big and three thick and has great strength. I can't believe we can't dig water on this ridge, he thought. In the evening, he gathered a group of young people to dig on the ridge. Dig! Airplane! Digging harder and harder, all the underground soil dried up, not even a little mercury. If you dig with your head down, you will only find a piece of white stubble, and a shovel can't shovel a handful of soil.

what can I do? Shuiwa thought of a way to let the girls scoop water from the Yi River with bowls, scoops, spoons and pots, pour the scooped water into the pit and then dig down. I missed two nights in one night, two nights and three nights, and dug 7749 nights.

Boys are so tired that their hands are soaked with blood. Girls' legs are swollen and their feet hurt. That night, they couldn't do any more, so they lay in the pit and rested, and before they knew it, the county fell asleep.

Shuiwa had a dream at night. He dreamed that the Dragon King of the East China Sea came to beg him: "It's not that I won't rain for you, but that the Jade Emperor won't let me rain for you. Below this pit is the Longgong Reservoir, a treasure house of water in all directions. " If you dig through the reservoir and water overflows from all directions, the jade emperor will blame you, and then my dragon king will be more than one bargained for. "

Shuiwa said: As the dragon king, you are in charge of so much water, but you told me that there is not a drop of water on this ridge. The crops are dry and people are thirsty. You don't care, but you are afraid that the Jade Emperor will blame us. We are not afraid of anything, the Jade Emperor and you, the Dragon King. As long as we dig down and dig through the Longgong Reservoir, there will be no shortage of water. "

He shouted: "Brothers and sisters, get up and dig, and you won't stop until you dig into the Longgong Reservoir!" The boys and girls who slept in the pit got up, wagging their tails and holding shovels. The girls picked up pots and pans and began to work. Seeing that the momentum was not good, the Dragon King hurried back to the East China Sea.

In order to let the Dragon King escape back to the East China Sea with the flowing water from the source, he quickly called the dragon kings from all over the world to have a meeting with the little dragon kings from various rivers and told the story of Daping people digging water. Finally, he said, "In short, let's keep it a secret.

The Jade Emperor didn't ask for rain. We all squeeze some water out of the ground and send it to Dapingling. In this way, they have water to eat, and the jade emperor can't punish them. What did you say?/Sorry? The four dragon kings all agreed. So I decided to send water together at night.

In addition, Shuiwa led the masses and burned the midnight oil until the evening. Suddenly, there was a bang and a water ring. Everyone jumped into the pit and noticed that there was water coming out in all directions, because the pit was small and the water was big, and the water kept spinning in the pit. Soon the puddle was full and the water went straight out.

Shuiwa hurried back to the village to knock gongs and told all households to come out to open canals and water the land. When they heard that there was water, they ran out together, carrying water and opening canals. This year, there is plenty of water in Daping area, and crops have gained a bumper harvest.