"Rhododendron and birds, resentment and beauty. It is suspected that blood in the mouth is dripping into flowers on the branches. ”

According to legend, the ancient Shu Kingdom was a peaceful and prosperous country. The land is fertile, the products are abundant, the people are well-fed, carefree, and live a very happy life.

The comfortable life makes people slowly lazy, drunk and dreaming all day long, prostituting and gambling, and sometimes even forgetting the season of sowing.

At that time, the emperor of Shu, named Du Yu, was a diligent king, and he was anxious when he saw that people were happy and forgot their worries. In order not to miss the agricultural season, every spring sowing season, he runs around, urging people to sow seeds quickly and grasp the spring light.

However, Du Yu became ill from hard work and finally said goodbye to his people, but he could not forget the people. His soul turned into a little bird, and every spring, he flew around and cried: cuckoo cuckoo, cuckoo cuckoo (similar to the pronunciation of the dialect of cutting wheat and cropping), until blood flowed from his mouth, and the bright red blood dripped all over the mountains and turned into beautiful flowers.

The cuckoo's cry of blood finally touched the people, and they began to learn from their good monarch Du Yu, and became diligent and diligent. In honor of Du Yu, they called the little bird the cuckoo bird, and the flower made of blood called the azalea.

"A hundred miles of rhododendrons are fragrant". Rhododendron branches vigorous, graceful and generous, thousands of manners, outstanding style, kitsch is not stained, stacked cloud brocade, bright red dripping, praised as the flower in the west, when the bright red flowers are tightly clustered, smiling in the wind, giving people a lively and unrestrained and noisy incentive.

"If you want to look forward to it, the spring breeze comes, the ridge blooms all over, and the mountains are red...... "Whenever spring comes, the rhododendrons on the heavenly ridge bloom all over the mountains, and it looks like the mountains and forests are coated with rouge from a distance, so the azaleas are also called "Yingshan red", and Min Haoran's hometown also calls this flower "Yanchai red".

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In front of Min Haoran's old house, there is a memorial arch during the Qing Dynasty. The memorial arch is composed of giant red stone blocks, the longest stone blocks reach more than zhang, and this stone is still unknown where it came from.

The front of the archway is carved with four big characters of 'wind and rain', equipped with a dragon and phoenix double dance, auspicious clouds with Xuan, and carved a wide pattern with the story of Xue Rengui's expedition to the west as the background, and the huge stones set up on both sides are gathered with lotus flowers. The back is engraved with 'wind and rain rock', and each side is carved with a crazy unicorn, decorated with the Guangxu period. All carvings are hollowed out, and the horses gallop, the flags are hunting, and the characters are lifelike. It is said that after the carver became a master, he only carved two arches in his life, which is one of them, which shows the fineness of the carving.

I heard my grandfather say that his ancestor was a big landlord, and he was a big landlord surnamed Yicheng in the vicinity. Min Haoran's ancestors built bridges and roads in the streets, benefited the people, won the hearts of the people, and the Guangxu Emperor learned that he was given the memorial arch as a pawn when he traveled to the south of the Yangtze River. The landlord surnamed Cheng went around to buy land, and eventually became the overlord of the party of ten miles and eight townships, and the main Kuomintang after the liberation, and fled to Taiwan when he saw that the general trend had gone.

When his grandfather was a child, he often told Min Haoran the story of his ancestors with allusions to azaleas and archways, encouraging him to be diligent in doing things, to be upright, and to be upright to people and things, so as to achieve goodness and far-reaching.