Linyue City, Yuyuan Province, is a medium-sized city with a long history but not very developed, with simple people, low prices, and a very slow pace of life, which is outrageously slow. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is Li Baifeng's hometown, and it is also the mountain gate of the Xuanshan Sect.

Of course, after all, the Xuanshan Sect is a traditional sect of cultivation, and even if it has extended its hand to the secular over the years, it is impossible to move the sect to the city. In fact, the Xuanshan sect was built on a high hill far from the city, called Huihong Mountain. It means that the wild goose can't fly over here, and it has to turn back, so you can imagine how high it is.

By the way, the Yue in "Linyue City" also refers to this Huihong Mountain.

When the young Li Baifeng stared at the innocent big eyes and listened to the eighth uncle tell this allusion, he once put forward a different opinion: "Since the little goose can't fly over, why don't you fly around and go back?" ”

Uncle Eighth was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to explain, so he had to touch his head: "Don't talk about this, let's change the story." ”

When he grew up, Li Baifeng felt that this name was really unreliable, although he didn't know who took it, but what was certain was that either he didn't know how high the wild goose could fly, or he didn't know how high the mountain was. Because Huihong Mountain is no more than 300 zhang high, he has witnessed many wild geese flying over the mountain, and once he was hit by falling bird droppings.

It may be because of the slow pace of life that the residents need some anecdotal pastimes after tea and dinner, or it may be that there were monks of the Xuanshan Sect who were recognized when they went down the mountain, in short, there have been many Taoist priests who have risen in the day since ancient times, and the gods in the sky have descended to earth, and the poor boy meets the fairy and then marries the rich daughter and other market legends, and some also say that there are noses and eyes, as if it is true.

One of the most widely circulated legends is the origin of Hongshan Mountain.

At that time, in order to eliminate the embarrassment, the eighth uncle told Li Baifeng this story:

"It is rumored that a long, long time ago, when this was still a village, there was a big river nearby, called the Evil Jiaojiang River, and there were dragons in the river to make trouble, and every time there was a shower, the dragons would set off huge waves, flooding the fields and houses along the way, and the villagers were miserable."

The young Li Baifeng asked in a milky voice, "Then why don't the villagers move out?" ”

"Because they are reluctant to live in this place where their ancestors have lived for generations, and the land here is indeed fertile, they can eat enough if they work hard, and they may starve if they go elsewhere, so the villagers just grit their teeth and endure it, and no one wants to leave their homes."

"I think it's probably because I can't carry it." Li Baifeng blinked his eyes and replied smartly.

Uncle Eighth smiled, touched his head lovingly, and explained the meaning of "leaving home" before proceeding:

Later, there was a god with great powers passing by, he couldn't bear the suffering of the villagers, so he used immortal magic to catch the evil Jiao, and moved a mountain with the ability to reach the sky, stood in the river, divided the river into two streams, and bypassed it in the shape of "human". to protect the village behind the mountain. ”

"The gods are so powerful." Li Baifeng's eyes widened.

"Xiaofeng may be able to be so powerful in the future." Uncle Eighth pinched his little face dotingly. She has no children, and she has always regarded Li Baifeng as her own.

"Really?"

"Hmm."

That time the story came to this, because later Li Baifeng ran to climb a tree, and the children's attention was always unable to concentrate.

Actually, there is more to this story.

The immortals moved to the mountains, separated the rivers, and left. Since then, there have been no dragons doing evil, and the river has been far away from the village, and the villagers have lived and worked in peace and contentment, gradually multiplying into disasters...... No, it was multiplication, and the village gradually expanded into a town. In order to commemorate the merits of the gods, people renamed the Evil Jiaojiang River as the Jiaojiang River, and the two tributaries were named "North Stream" and "South Stream" according to their location.

Because "Descending Jiaojiang" is too awkward and not easy to recognize, children call it Banana River, which sounds delicious. Of course, even if the name was not changed at the beginning, it may now become "Ejiao Pulp". Maybe that's fate.

Not only that, but people also set this day every year as the "Rowing Festival", which has evolved into a very lively festival.

In this festival, two teenagers and girls form a team, share a small boat, and compete together, and the final winner is said to be blessed by the gods.

The rules of the contest are as follows:

In the first stage, each group should prepare a dragon shaped boat, the size is specified, but the style is arbitrary. The jury will score the boat for the first time based on its aesthetics.

In the second stage, the contestants set off at the same time at a starting point of the southern stream and headed upriver towards Huiyan Mountain, where teenagers rowed and girls were not allowed to help - of course, cheering, sweating, and water were allowed. When the boat arrived at Huiyan Mountain, the branch point between the South and North Streams, another group of judges who had been waiting there early in the morning scored a second time according to the time spent.

In the third stage, the contestants connect the boats together to build a relatively stable platform, at this time, the tired teenagers can take a rest, and then the stage for the girls is next. They wear long-sleeved dresses and dance on a boat, limited to half a pillar of incense. The third jury will score their skills for the third time.

In the fourth stage, the teenagers who have been resting about the same time untie the boat, go around Huiyan Mountain, and go down the North Stream, at this time, the organizer's boat will release small lanterns with anagrams and float on the water. The boy steered the boat to approach the lantern, and the girl used a long pole to carry it back to the boat. There are three rules for this stage:

First, girls can only use long poles to carry lanterns, and using other tools is considered a violation of the rules. Second, the boat can only go downstream, not retrograde. Third, after getting the lantern, the contestants have to guess the anagram inside to get points. The anagram will have different scores depending on the difficulty, and the difficulty level can be judged according to the color of the lantern.

After reaching the finish line, the contestants take out the guessed anagram to get the corresponding score, and then combine the first three scores to get the final total score, and the one with the highest score wins.

The whole competition has a single competition stage, a two-person collaboration stage, and assesses physical strength, art and knowledge, which can be described as very comprehensive and full of fun.

At the end of the race, everyone will put lights together at the finish line. The boy and the girl wrote their wishes on a slip of paper and put them together in a lantern, and it was said that if two people had the same wishes, then they would come true - of course, if they had been agreed in advance, it would not work.

I don't know why, this festival was originally intended to commemorate the merits of the gods, but it was full of youth and hormones, and I don't know how many pairs of lovers were directly or indirectly promoted. So much so that later, inviting others to participate in the rowing festival was the subtext of "stay with me". There are often high school class teachers who will squat on this day to observe, and catch early love.

Of course, that's all for later.