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The story of Big Willow Lane and Little Willow Lane

Beginning, Emperor Wu of Liang sent two generals, Zu Heng, a material officer, and Chen Chengbo, a water officer, to arrange for the implementation. Zu, Chen two through the field inspection, are that the Huaihe River here, although narrow, but the Huaihe water drifting fast surging, loose sand along the coast, it is difficult to base weir, strong weir is a labor of the people and money, and close together indefinitely, and advise Xiaoyan to give up the plan to build a dam. Liang wu emperor xiao yan heard angry: water can become moisture, spade soil can become a mountain, since ancient times, there are soldiers to block, water and earth weir said, there is no reason to build a dam, clearly is the two have a different heart. In order to show his determination to build the dam and not to let anyone object to it, Xiaoyan ordered the guards to tie up Zu and Chen and behead them. After killing Zu and Chen, no one dared to raise any objections. Xiao Yan also sent his generals from Xuzhou, Yangzhou line to collect people, every 20 households to draw 5 people, *** collected more than 150,000 people, plus more than 50,000 soldiers amounted to more than 200,000 people. Civilians regardless of the heat and cold, day and night non-stop digging and damming. As the lei dam closes, the river becomes more and more ferocious. As soon as the people poured down the soil, they were washed out by the raging river water for dozens of feet, which could not be closed for a while. At that time, some people offered a plan to cast a pot of iron into Shidai, which was filled with soil and sunk into the bottom of the water, so that it could block the river water. So, Xiaoyan sent people to mobilize more than 100,000 pounds of pig iron, cast iron pot sunk into the water, the results are still not helpful. Xiao Yan is anxious to sleep can not close their eyes, food is not allowed to taste, irritable, often personally on the line to supervise the work, slightly disagreeable on the beheading thrown into the river. Coupled with the cold weather, day-long labor, the people freeze to death, starvation, death of disease countless. At this time, there were two craftsmen, a pair of twin brothers, the elder brother called the big willow phase, the younger brother called the small willow phase, see that this is not a good thing. In order to protect the other people, they took the initiative to propose to Xiaoyan to jump into the merging place, nailed into a well-shaped stake, and quickly filled in the soil and stone, which could make the dam merge together. Xiao Yan sent people to cut down trees, mountain quarrying, all ready, Liu's twins arm in arm jumped into the ferocious river. Only to hear a loud thud, fierce as a dragon Huaihe River water unexpectedly turned his head to rush back. Numerous folk and soldiers on the bank to take advantage of the gap, the pre-prepared stumps stones, soil bags together to fill the mouth of the dam, not long after the dam closed. The time is exactly 15 years of Liang Tianjian (516 AD) April 10, lasted exactly 18 months. People in order to commemorate the big willow phase, small willow phase of the twin brothers, along the dam planted a lot of willow trees, and Sihong along the river of a town called the big willow phase, Fushan to the east along the river of a village town called the small willow phase. Later, called called by the people called the big willow alley, small willow alley.