South China Sea Myth

Li Ping's tour guide said to Ah Lang and Ah Bin: "Have you heard of the myths and legends of typhoons? I can tell you the story of the typhoon." "

Once upon a time, Qiong Island was a large fertile basin. There is no shadow of a typhoon, and there is no trail of heavy rain. Four seasons of the year, the wind and rain are smooth. The people were industrious, ploughing and grazing; The five grains are abundant, and the six animals are prosperous; Every family, live and work in peace and contentment. At some point, a wind spirit flew from overseas and camped in a cave at the top of the peaks. The huge typhoon spirit, with two big wings like two tall stone cliffs, has the power of ten thousand jun. A huge wind will blow in the first place.

The typhoon spirit is like a vicious eagle, hungry, and eats the white clouds in the sky; When he is thirsty, he flapps his wings and summons the storm that fills the sky. Then, quench your thirst with rain on its two large wings. When they were full, they poured the rest down, forming a raging torrent, like a mad beast, roaring down from the mountains, flooding the fields, crushing the villages, and sweeping away the people and animals. The good end of the big basin is full of holes. People have no fertile land, so they can only cut down gardens on the mountains to plant mountain orchid rice and sow seeds in the swamps. Typhoon Jing often stirs up wind and waves, and does evil. The harvest of the people is not guaranteed, and they live like a year, and those who die die, those who flee, and there are not many families left.

At that time, there was a village at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain, called Caolun Village, and there were a pair of brothers in the village. The elder brother's name is Da Fei, and the younger brother's name is Da Wei. Both of them were born with a tiger's back and a strong man. What is admirable is that both of them have a good archery technique of piercing the yang with one hand, and if they want to shoot the eyes of the boar, they will never shoot on the ears of the boar. Seeing that the typhoon spirit was doing such evil, they were filled with righteous indignation and determined to get rid of this evil spirit. They asked everywhere, where is the typhoon spirit?

One day, they learned that Typhoon Jing lived in a large cave on a mountain peak, and he often basked his wings outside the cave. The brothers and sisters must find the typhoon spirit and shoot it to death while it is drying its wings. They ran for a month, climbed thirty large buildings, found a hard tree called "Black Tito", and made a pair of the most powerful bows in the world. It took a month, walked 30 streams, and came to a kind of hard bamboo called "Yama", which was sharpened into 30 sharp arrows. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the brothers put all preparations on their backs, and climbed the steep mountain with strong bows and arrows on their backs to find the spirit of the typhoon.

The brothers walked on the mountain for seven days and seven nights, climbed 7749 peaks, and still couldn't find the hole where Typhoon Jing was hiding. On the eighth day, they came to the foot of a mountain called "Redface Peak", and they were very tired, so they slept under a large rock wall, and suddenly saw that the stone wall was cracked into two gates. An old man with pale hair and a beard mopping the floor came out of the stone gate, saw the old man holding an arrow in his hand, pointed to the mountain peak, and said, "Get up, brave descendants, only those who are not afraid of death can achieve the final victory."

The arrow can only be used when it is fired, and finally the typhoon will die. "The Typhoon Spirit is on the top of the mountain, I will give you a magic arrow and let it help you. But remember, you must wait for you

The brothers wanted to ask for an explanation, but a light wind blew, and the old man disappeared in the wind. The brothers were looking around, and a huge eagle swooped down on them, and they didn't have time to draw their swords, and they woke up in a dream. The stone wall is still the stone number I saw just now, and the strange thing is that there is really a silver arrow erected under the stone wall. The brothers were amazed and delighted, picked up their arrows, and climbed and climbed to the high peaks, and climbed until dawn, and finally reached the top of the steep peak.

The sun shows its face and the sky is clear. A huge hole was revealed on the peak, and the bluestone was shining. A huge eagle-like monster is facing the sky on its back, spreading its huge wings, basking in the sun leisurely while proudly devouring the clouds above the mountain peak. Presumably, this is the legendary typhoon spirit. When the brothers saw this, they were furious, drew their strong bows, and took their arrows and shot arrows, which caused the wind spirit to be bruised all over the body, and the blood was splattered, staining the stones, grass and trees on the mountain peaks. Until now, the trees and stones on this peak are still light red, hence the name "Redface Peak".

When the brothers had shot the twenty-ninth arrow, the Typhoon Spirit screamed and struggled with all his might, and slammed its huge wings, which caused a great wind and a torrential rain, and the wind whistled and blew so that the sky was dark, and the earth shook; The torrential rain poured down like sharp arrows, so that people could not open their eyes. The brothers staggered, their heels unsteady, and they were about to die on the precipice. My brother was in a hurry, forgetting his husband's instructions, he pulled out the magic arrow at once, used all his strength, and shot towards the typhoon. Hearing only a loud "boom", the right wing of the typhoon spirit was shot off and fell to the ground, and the gale was suddenly reduced by half. The typhoon spirit was about to flee for his life, but the younger brother pulled out the last arrow and shot it fiercely, hitting the essence in the stomach, piercing a large hole, and a large stone egg with blood fell out of it. To this day, there is a large red egg-shaped rock on the face peak, which is the size of three houses.

Typhoon Jing endured his injuries and flew away with his left flank in tow. The brothers rushed forward, picked up the broken wing, and walked down the hill with joy. On the way, I met the old man again. The old man praised them for their bravery, but also blamed them for not shooting the arrow at the end, so that they did not shoot the typhoon essence to death, leaving a legacy of trouble. The old man also instructed the brothers to return and sweep the mountain beams with the wings of the typhoon spirit, and make the original basin. But because they had only one wing, the two brothers had swept out only a few small basins and a few hilly areas on the south side of the mountain, and that wing was broken. To this day, there are several basins in the Qigong area, and the large mountain beams in other places are still standing, and they are no longer as fertile basins as before.

Besides, after the typhoon broke one of its wings, he was covered in blood and seriously injured, and he threw himself up and down, desperately flying to the far South China Sea and hiding on a desert island. There is a lack of wind and clouds at sea, and the typhoon spirit often does not have enough to eat, and often fans the wind and clouds many times to maintain its life. As a result, the number of strong winds per year has increased. However, because of the lack of a wing, the typhoon is much smaller than before, and it is thousands of miles away, so there is not much wind power when you get here. Typhoons hate the "red-faced peak", and whenever they want to fan a typhoon, they always have to fan it a few times. When the wind blows into the cave, it makes a rumbling sound. So, before the typhoon came to pass, people heard the sound of the mountain and knew that a typhoon was coming.