Laotashan

Laotashan

According to the records of Luotian County, Tashan is also known as Yuping mountain. It is about three kilometers south of the county. It is said that there is an ancient pagoda on the mountain. There are several plum trees handed down from the Tang Dynasty. It is named after Zhenyuan temple, Shuihu Pavilion, chiwu Pavilion, and all the victories of Tashan Academy. The ruins still exist today. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the "old pagoda tangmei" has always been one of the eight scenic spots in Luotian. People only know that there was a plum blossom of Tang Dynasty on laotashan in the south of the city, but they don't know that there is another tear jerking myth

brief introduction

The old Tashan mountain, 440 meters above sea level, is located 2.5 kilometers southeast of Luotian County. It is also known as "Yuping mountain" because of its beautiful screen in the southeast of Luotian County. It is said that before Sui and Tang Dynasties, bashui barbarians once built "Nuwa Niangniang Temple". The beautiful laotashan once ranked among the eight scenic spots in Luotian with the name of "Tang Mei in laotashan". Now Tang Mei has been destroyed. There is Qingyuan temple on the mountain. At the back of the temple is the tomb of dugongtian and shangdexiyuan of linjizong, the former leader of Qingyuan temple. At the front of the temple is the tomb of Pujiang, the monk of Dongzong zhengzhuan temple and his disciple ruichanglao monk in the 52nd year of Kangxi reign. Beside it is the tomb of Zhigong monk of caodong Zhengzong who died in the 13th year of Qianlong reign (1748) above. Tashan is the most beautiful scenery in the world, represented by "old Tashan tangmei", and "Tashan bell" in Jiajing county annals of Ming Dynasty and "Tashan autumn" in Guangxu county annals of Qing Dynasty. In the past, there were two or three red maple forests in Tashan in autumn. Today, there are more than 30 mu of red maple forests in Tashan, which are lined with green leaves.

legend

People only know that there was a plum blossom of Tang Dynasty on laotashan in the south of the city, but they don't know that there is another tear jerking myth

It is said that in ancient times, laotashan was a flat land with two families. One was Tang sanchu, a rich man with a lot of mules and horses, a lot of slaves and a lot of gold and silver in his home. Another family surnamed Lao is a poor orphan named Lao Bazi. He is hardworking, upright, intelligent and capable, but he has no land. But Lao Bazi was in love with Tang Lamei, the daughter of Tang Sancai. She often secretly gave him money, clothes and asked him to meet in the back garden. For a long time, her father knew about it. Her father thought it was an act of corrupting the family and insulting the ancestors. He used a bamboo stick to "discipline" his daughter many times, but it didn't work. Later, he sent two cronies to watch in the garden.

On this day, Tang sanchu dreamed of an old Taoist saying to him at night, "you will soon have a disaster. To avoid disaster, you have to build an 18 storey Tower!" Tang woke up and told his wife, who said, "I'd rather believe it than believe it's nothing. It's too late when the disaster comes!" So they decided to build this tower beside the house and named it Lingxiao pagoda.

Before the construction of the pagoda, Tang sanchu thought about what should be used to sacrifice the foundation of the pagoda? Suddenly, the confidant reported that Lao Bazi was caught in the garden He immediately had the "son of a bitch" dragged to the base of the tower and buried alive. When Tang Lamei heard that Lao Bazi had been buried, she was very sad. She rushed to the place where he had been killed. She ran into the huge stone and died. Her blood flowed into her lover's heart bit by bit through the soil. Tang did not shed a tear. He asked people to carry his daughter's body far away and bury it by the opposite pond.

Lingxiao pagoda began to be built until it was successful. I don't know how many poor people died in it. When the family of three Chu in Tang Dynasty celebrated the completion of the pagoda, a plum tree quietly grew on his daughter's grave. The plum tree grows one foot a day, and after five days it grows to the height of one person. From the sixth day, it moved towards the pagoda, one foot a day. After four months, "move" finished a half of the distance, not far from the pagoda. Tang sanchu thought, "this Dame will make a fool of me in the dirt He asked people to dig up the plum tree and plant it on her grave. The next day, it began to move again, one foot a day. When the fire broke out, someone had to use a saw to cut down the tree pole. Two days later, a new sapling grew out of the stump. Tang asked people to dig out the stump and remove the roots left in the field. It's really cruel. The saplings grow out of the grave again, and they grow vigorously. Tang sanchu did not show any weakness either. He immediately asked people to break the saplings, flatten the grave, and then lift a big stone to press it firmly on it. But it didn't hold down. The next day, the saplings burst out of the stone. Tang Sancai specially sent a man to guard there with a knife. Tell him to keep cutting down for ten or twenty years until the saplings are extinct. Things are really strange. It rained heavily that night. People heard a loud bang, Lingxiao pagoda was knocked down by thunder, just fell on Tang's house. Tang Sancai became meat cake and meat sauce in his sleep. The stone on Tang Lamei's grave and the man with a knife were swept away by the wind and disappeared. After the rain, a stone man grows on the ruins of Lingxiao pagoda. As like as two peas, Lao Zi, the figure, shape and appearance of the stone man are facing the tomb of Chimonanthus praecox, and his eyes are gazing at it with eight eyes. The plum trees on the tomb grow up again. They grow three feet a day. After three days, they begin to move forward. The speed is three feet a day. So quickly moved to the stone man, next to its body, close to its chest. The stone man is growing up day by day, and the plum tree is more charming and elegant day by day. Hundreds of years later, the stone man became a mountain, and the plum tree quietly nestled in the embrace of the mountain. Because people know that this mountain is the incarnation of Lao Bazi, and people even know that the plum tree is Tang Lamei, so they have a common name "Lao Ba Tang Mei". Later, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, someone built a tower on the mountain. Because the pronunciation of "Lao Ba" and "Lao Ta" was similar, Lao Ba Tang Mei was gradually called "Lao TA Tang Mei".

Map of laotashan

Address: 2.5km southeast of Luotian County, Huanggang City

Longitude: 115.40860748291

Latitude: 30.758598327637

Chinese PinYin : Lao Ta Shan