As the most typical ancient building in the water city, Guangyue Tower has a long history and has witnessed the changes of history.

There is also a legend about "Guangyue Tower": in the seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Yong, an official stationed in Dongchang Mansion, wanted to use the remaining timber to build a majestic pavilion in the center of the city, which was used to send troops to the enemy and set up drums to tell the time, this suggestion was appreciated by the people of the whole city!

Chen Yong's requirements for the pavilion building are: the base should have a cross arch passage, the upper part is a four-story all-wood structure, plus a corridor, not allowed to use an inch of iron nails, and the deadline is one year to complete, the undertaker built a blue brick base as required, but the whole wooden building, but always can not get a hearty pattern, so the project can not be carried out for a long time!

One day, next to the scrap pile in the wood yard, an old carpenter man who seemed to be looking for a job sat down, and while listening to everyone's discussions, he pulled the scrap pile with his hands, and was secretly laughing with his head down!

When the carpenter saw that he had picked up a pile of sticks of varying thickness, he said angrily:

"Hey, let's find a living and go around the countryside, you can't do it here, don't pick up scraps here to make a fuss"!

The old man smiled and said:

"Ingenuity has adults to invite, waste materials are skillfully made of big tools, brother, don't worry about me"!

The next morning, when a craftsman came out for the morning solution, he found that there was a delicate model of the pavilion with a buckle of miscellaneous wooden strips where the old man was sitting!

He hurriedly reported back to the foreman, who came here to see it and couldn't help but be stunned! It turned out that this model was the prototype of the pavilion he wanted to build, and he asked people to look for the old man, but the old man had long since disappeared!

The craftsmen heard that there was a model overnight, and they all rushed to watch it, only to see this small pavilion, all with carpentry waste of different thicknesses and square circles, criss-crossing buckles, five corners of the building with corridors, arches on all sides, rest the mountain cross ridge, solid and abnormal, people not only marveled at the superb skills, but also happily said: "With this model as a sample, there is no worry about the delivery on schedule"!

So everyone made their own division of labor, the preparation of materials, the molding of molding, then they worked together, the most important material on the first layer is forty pillars that are more thick than one arm and more than three feet high!

Since it is the foundation of the whole building, it is not only necessary to select the materials well, but also to have the correct dimensions of the roots. Thirty-nine were ready, but when the fortieth was sawed, it was found that there was a serious chaff hole in the center that could not be used. There is no surplus of such a large amount of wood, what can be done?

Go to the field to procure, not to mention that it is difficult to find a suitable source of materials for a while, just long-distance transportation, is also a big problem, for a while, everyone sighed for a long time, I don't know how to be good!

At this moment, the missing old carpenter appeared in the timber yard again, and the foreman saw that he was like a savior, and hurriedly greeted Shi Li and said:

"Master, you can come, think of a way for me!"

The old carpenter said with a smile:

"I'm afraid I won't be able to handle your project this time!"

The foreman has a salute and says:

"Master, last time I complained that I didn't know Taishan, and I offended you a lot. If it weren't for the model you gave me, I wouldn't be able to work now. Today, I encountered the problem of missing a column, and please think of a way to do it!"

The old carpenter smiled:

"This is not a difficult thing, you have five carts of sawdust today, 20 reed mats, 20 catties of water glue, and you will apply it tomorrow!"

The foreman dared to be lazy when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered everyone to prepare, and the materials he wanted were ready one by one, but the old man closed his eyes on the side and fell asleep, and the foreman did not dare to alarm him, so he had to let people prepare wine and dinner and put them next to the old man!

Early the next morning, I saw that in the open space of the material yard, there was a thick and long round object tightly rolled with a reed mat, and the foreman asked people to open the reed mat to see that it was the column that was needed!

Measure with a ruler, the thickness and length are just right, no need to see an axe; although its quality is all made of sawdust, but it is as solid as wood, the foreman is grateful and admired, and when he asks someone to look for the old man, it is the same as last time, and there is no shadow!

Forty pillars were quickly erected, but when the bucket arch was pressed up, it was either that the bucket was big, or the curvature of the arch was not enough, and it was not suitable.

Someone saw that the foreman rarely turned in circles, and said:

"It's useless to argue, it's impossible to be anxious, so let's ask the master who built the pillar to help!"

Although the foreman nodded yes, he said:

"This old man has come and gone without a trace, but where can he find it"?

An old craftsman said:

"That master is so strong, I don't think he is a god, but also a Luban patriarch, let's burn incense, pray and pray, maybe let his old man manifest his spirit"!

As soon as the foreman heard the reason, he bought the incense, lit it in the carpentry workshop, and prayed, and looked forward to it for a whole day, but he did not even look forward to the shadow, but in the early morning of the next day, on the wood that was prepared for the bucket arch, there were criss-cross curved and straight ink lines, which were processed and formed according to the sawn wood, and buckled with each other, and the result was a tight seam, not big or small!

Only then did everyone know that this was all done by the mysterious carpenter old man, so they had to thank each other!

The project was finally completed as scheduled, and the magnificent pavilion was accepted and approved by Chen Yong, and everyone happily dismantled the scaffolding, and the "Yumu Building" named by Chen Yong will be inaugurated tomorrow!

But at this moment, someone suddenly found that under the eaves of the northwest corner of the highest floor of the building, there was a half-long rafter exposed.

Just when everyone was in a dilemma, the mysterious old carpenter appeared in front of everyone again. He didn't wait for everyone to ask for help, but he slowly pulled out a sharp axe from behind his waist and threw it at the head of the rafters.

In the cheers of everyone, when the old man went to look for the old man, the old man was gone, people talked about it, this must be the ancestor of Luban, everyone in order to commemorate the achievements of Luban in the building, especially on the north wall of the first floor, built a small Luban Temple, which was painted with a statue of Luban, in order to commemorate, although the portrait of Luban is gone, but the small ancestral hall is still there, everyone knows, that is the place to worship Luban!

Since then, people will be in Luban to worship in Guangyue Tower, for a time the incense was prosperous, but during the ** period, Guangyue Tower was also destroyed without exception, after that catastrophe, the portrait of Luban Patriarch is no longer there, only the empty ancestral hall remains!