Old Dragon Cave

Old Dragon Cave

The old Dragon Cave in Longtan Lake scenic spot in Quxian County, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province is a very famous scenic spot. Usually, the lake water is very clear, but when a strong earthquake comes, it will flow out brown yellow blood. The lake water gradually changes from clear to brown yellow, and the local residents and tourists don't know the reason. After passing it on, it gives the myth story, and makes the old Dragon Cave add a lot of color The color of mystery.

The legend of the origin of names

The most beautiful place in Quxian County of Dazhou city is Longtan scenic spot. A magical spot in Longtan scenic spot is the old Dragon Cave.

What's the name?

In ancient times, at the foot of Caoshan mountain near baishuixi, Longtan Township, there lived a family with the surname Li who lived by farming. Both the old man and the old woman are grey haired. It's all up to Li Ang, a gifted son, to carry water and collect firewood. This young man is in his early 30s, tall and handsome. Since childhood, he studied poetry, read books, learned, filial to his parents, and treated his neighbors well. All the neighbors praised Li Ang as the most promising boy in the mountain village. One by one, the matchmakers who came to the door to ask for marriage talked about pretty and graceful girls, but they were all declined by Li Ang one by one. Just before he went to Beijing to take the exam, his father died suddenly. In order to serve his mother, he gave up the chance to be an official and set up a private school on the spot to enroll the children of poor families who could not afford to read. He preached and taught seriously and was highly praised by the villagers. His disciples all respected him.

One morning, after the rain, the scenery was beautiful. Some students passed by the forest when they went to school. Suddenly, they saw a big and handsome crow magpie flying by the side of the road. Seven or eight of the disciples went to chase out the crow magpie and made a lot of noise. As far as the crow and magpie fly, the disciples will chase them. They ran after a big tree and saw a lot of crow magpies on the branches. You peck me, I peck you, and they were fighting. What are they fighting for? A pair of curious eyes were staring at me. After a while, from the mouth of a crow magpie in the tree, she spat out a bright red bead. Just after it fell to the ground, the disciples rushed forward to fight for it. At this time, the big black fat with his hands and feet, snatched his own hands, showing a proud look, the other six disciples were disappointed and jealous. There was a child named Xiaoman who was even more unconvinced. He ran to the school in three steps and two steps, and told Li ang the story of heipang picking up red beads. Li Ang felt very strange and wanted to go to see what happened. After Li Ang arrived, he found that the bead in heipang's hand was not an ordinary treasure. He planned to take it to the elder monk of Lishu temple to identify it. After he explained his intention to heipang, heipang gave the red bead to the teacher with both hands.

Li Ang took the red bead in his hand, looked at it carefully, weighed the weight and smelled the smell. He also tasted it and subconsciously put it into his mouth. Unexpectedly, the red bead into the mouth, all of a sudden slipped into the stomach, in any case, can not spit out. After a while, Leong's mouth was dry, and his stomach was like a burning stove, which was very hot. The disciples were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. Li Ang kept shouting, "I want to drink water, I want to drink water!" The disciples rushed to a nearby family and poured a bowl of cool eagle tea for the teacher to drink. However, after drinking it, he was still burning and thirsty. The disciple went to pour the second bowl, but he still couldn't drink it. After a teapot was finished, he was still very thirsty. There was no way. The disciples scooped water from the stone jar with water scoops, one after another, until they drank up a mouthful of water from the stone jar. What should I do? Disciples, you stare at me, I stare at you, no one can do anything. At this time, heipang fell down and said, "teacher, you can't quench your thirst and stop your fever by drinking a pot of water. There's nothing we can do about it. How about helping you go down to the river and drink by yourself?" Li Ang thought that there was no other way. So the disciples helped Li Ang across a ridge, down a slope and came to the Baishui River. When Li Ang saw the clear river, he turned his head to the upstream, opened his mouth and let the river flow straight to his mouth. He swallowed it very fast. After a while, the flow of the stream slowed down and halved. Crucian carp, carp, eel, and even salamander in the stream are running horizontally and vertically. They are so scared that they rush into the grass one after another. The disciples were very surprised: "is it the dragon, master? How can people drink so much?" At this time, Li Ang's waist had grown scales, the sky was dark, the wind was strong, the rain came, and the stream rose sharply. Li Ang arched forward and made a hole. He arched nine times and made nine deep holes. At this time, the peaks on both sides of the Baishui River toppled each other, covering the Baishui River for about a mile, forming an underground river, and a long section of the riverbed disappeared from the eyes of the disciples. After Li Ang became a dragon, he disappeared in the dark river. The villagers came to see Mr. Li by the stream, but they never saw him again. Heipang said that Mr. Li has become "Laolong Li", and this underground river is his "home". From then on, people called it old Dragon Cave.

Later, it was said that Li Ang was in charge of "Shi yunbu Yu". In case of drought, the flow of people praying for rain is constant. According to Qu county annals of the Republic of China, such articles as he qingen's praying for rain in the old Dragon Cave, AI cunyang's praying for rain in the old Dragon Cave, and Yu Suisheng's congratulation on He Yi's holding the rain in the old Dragon Cave record the effect of "the old dragon hiding in the ancient Longqiu cave, silently praying for God's health". During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the people raised money to build a Dragon King Temple with a statue of Li Ang. As the years passed, the old temple was gradually destroyed by wind and rain. In March 2003, the Longwang temple was restored and expanded. It was completed on October 5 of the same year. It covers an area of 3200 square meters and has four halls in a ladder shape. The main hall is the old dragon hall, dedicated to the statue of Li Laolong. When tourists come out of the temple, they always want to get into the old dragon cave by boat to enjoy the mythical scenery. The cave is 1-18 meters wide, 3-25 meters high and 1-20 meters deep. It is a rare colored cave in China. Experts call it "underground Louvre" and "water Gallery". The hall of the cave is big and small, and the gallery is wide and narrow. The nine cave halls naturally present plane patterns such as "Swan Lake rhyme", "goddess flying", "peacock opening screen", "Buddha in the heart" and three-dimensional reliefs such as "evergreen fruit", "dragon tongue", "dragon tooth", "mushroom platform" and "mother of land".

The scenery in the cave is colorful, which makes people feast their eyes and forget to return. However, there are all kinds of things in the cave, except Li Laolong.

The earthquake is red water

Red water flowing from Laolong cave in Quxian county during Wenchuan earthquake_ Netease News Center

Introduction: at about 14:30 on May 12, 2008, at the same time of the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, rust red river water slowly flowed out of the old Dragon Cave in Longtan scenic spot, Quxian County, Dazhou City, which dyed the previously clear colorful lake into blood red. This phenomenon will last for about two days.

According to local villagers, whenever a major earthquake comes, red river water will flow out of laolongdong. Similar phenomena have occurred here in the historical Tangshan earthquake, Southeast Asian tsunami and Taiwan earthquake. This magical geological phenomenon adds mysterious color to the old Dragon Cave, which has attracted the attention of relevant parties.

At 13:46, March 11, 2011, Beijing time, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake occurred in Japan. Coincidentally, the water with light red color flowed out of laolongdong waterfall again that afternoon. On the afternoon of March 11, when people arrived at the scenic spot, they saw the usual beautiful colorful lake, and the crystal clear entrance of the old Dragon Cave had been dyed light red. When you get to the center of the old Dragon Cave, the color of the waterfall, which is flowing all the year round, turns into a faint blood red. After the 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the color of the blood red water from the waterfall is very bright, and this time the color of the water is lighter than that of the previous 5.12 earthquake.

Why?

According to relevant geologists, laolongdong is a limestone geological area. After years of water erosion, it gradually forms underground karst caves. When there is a strong earthquake on the earth, the brown acid water will be squeezed out of the surface by the pressure of underground high tide.

In addition, there are iron ores in the area, with special geological conditions.

It seems that any major earthquake has a certain impact on the energy pattern of the earth.

Scientific research information

There are "characteristics and value evaluation of geological heritage resources of Laolong cave in Quxian County, Sichuan Province"

"Quantitative evaluation of geological relic resources of Laolong cave in Quxian county"

And so on.

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