Huayuan Town, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province

Garden Town

Huayuan town is located in Qiaonan Town, Changshou yuan, Linwei District, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province. It belongs to the township level administrative division.

It is said that in his old age, song Zhenzong was very worried about the affairs of the crown prince. One day, he asked Taoist Chen Tuan about it. Chen Tuan said, "the crown princess is now in the west, beside the Qingshui River. She is a beautiful woman. She is just a young man. Kunde should be the empress." Song Zhenzong sent people to look for it according to Chen Tuan's directions and go to Qingshui River in the lower reaches of you River in Weinan. Sure enough, there was a girl, sixteen years old, named Cao E. Song Zhenzong ordered the governor of Weinan to send Cao E to Beijing to marry the prince. How dare the governor of Weinan neglect and take people to Qingshui River in person. At the sight of Cao E, she was shocked: the girl was not only dirty, but also bald, deaf and dumb. The magistrate thought: if Zunzhi sent her to the palace, wouldn't she lose her own veil! If you don't deliver it against the order, I'm afraid you'll lose your life! But helpless, had to harden the scalp, let Cao E dressing on the sedan chair. Strange to say, when Cao E left her hometown, she paid three respects to Nanshan, which was regarded as saying goodbye to the old scholar. After the worship, his head grew thick black hair. She went to the side of the Qinghe River, picked up the clear water, and wanted to drink a few mouthfuls of water from her hometown. After drinking, she could talk. She went to the side of the pool and picked up the clear water. She wanted to wash her face with the water from her hometown for the last time. After washing, her face suddenly became white, delicate and beautiful. The magistrate was very happy, so he called Cao E to the sedan chair. In the past, Cao E's sister-in-law saw that Cao E was ugly and worried that she would not get married and would affect herself all her life, so she was very cruel to Cao E. She told Cao E to go to the barren mountain alone to herd sheep. She wanted to be eaten by the wolf, but Cao E came back safely. She also asked Cao E to take a lot of cotton and order it to be spun on the same day, otherwise she would not be allowed to enter the house again. However, all the spinning insects in the mountain came to help and finally spun it on time. She also asked Cao E to weave many threads into cloth overnight, trying to kill her. But with the help of the fairy, Cao E weaves all her threads into cloth every night, and she doesn't feel tired at all. Now, seeing that Cao E was in the sedan chair and was going to be the crown prince's concubine, he held on to the sedan chair and insisted that Cao E take her to the capital. Cao E was so entangled that she had no choice but to say, "OK, you go to make up quickly. I'll wait for you." My sister-in-law turned sorrow into joy and ran home to dress up. But when she was dressed up, Cao E's sedan chair had already gone far away. As she chased after her, she cried out, "Auntie, wait! After all, he didn't catch up, so he died of shame and indignation. He turned into Dai Sheng bird (a turtle dove), and kept shouting: "aunt, wait!" "Auntie, wait!" Cao E went to Bianliang in the capital and married the prince. The next year, Zhenzong Yanjia, the prince ascended the throne, is Renzong. Cao E became Queen. Although empress Cao enjoys the splendor and wealth, she still can't forget the mountains and rivers of her hometown. She goes to Qingshuihe every year. For this reason, song Renzong built a palace for her by the Qingshui River and built a royal garden. The address is in today's Huayuan Town, so Huayuan town gets its name.

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