Yijiaping is located directly opposite the east of Chenjiafang. The surrounding area of the village is the same as Chenjiafang, there are neither high mountains nor Lishui lakes, and it is a typical hilly landform in the south of the Yangtze River. The mediocre hills lie around the village irregularly, and they do not look majestic at all, and the hills are their own kings, not connected to each other, and there is not much momentum.

Only the silver-shaped mountain in the east can be called a decent mountain in Yijiaping, its raised top is slightly steeper and taller than the surrounding mediocre mountains, because the mountain shape resembles the shape of a bloom of gold and silver in ancient times. The ancestral house of the Yi clan is located on the west side of this silver-shaped mountain, and dozens of houses are all sitting in the east and facing west. Therefore, the silver-shaped mountain naturally became the Houlong Mountain of the Yi clan in Yijiaping. This Houlong Mountain has dominated the prosperity and decline of the Yi clan for generations. In front of their ancestral house is a wide small port, the small port is high in the north and low in the south, and the ancestors have long reclaimed it into a paddy field of different sizes, which has become the basis for the survival of the Zhuangli people. The winding river that runs through the port from north to south divides this small port into two, the east side of the small river belongs to the Yijiaping people, called Yijiagang, and the west side of the small river belongs to the people surnamed Chen, called Chenjiagang. The two families with the surnames of Hedong and Hexi take the river as the boundary, cultivate for a living, communicate marriages, and get along peacefully.

Don't look at Yijiaping, there are only a few dozen families and a hundred people, but it is an ancient village. According to their genealogy, it is more than 2,000 years old.

Legend has it that in the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 201 BC, the military general Chen Ying was appointed by Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, to lead the troops to attack the land south of the Yangtze River. The land of Yuanzhou is wide, the soil is fertile, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful. Therefore, Chen Ying ordered the establishment of a county here, and left many officers and soldiers to protect the city, and these officers and soldiers later started a family in Yuanzhou City, married wives and had children. Among them, there is a general surnamed Yi, named Yi Daosen, he relied on the meritorious momentum, made a lot of money, after the outbreak in Yuanzhou City, married four wives, gave birth to twelve sons, these twelve sons grew up in the jurisdiction of Yuanzhou to occupy the land as the king, open up wasteland, and breed offspring. Therefore, the Yi surname clan later became one of the largest surname clans in central Jiangxi, especially in Yuanzhou.

It is said that the twelfth son of Yi Dawson is named Yi Wanchun. He was born to the youngest wife of his father, Yi Dawson, in his later years. According to common sense, the youngest wife should be the master's favorite wife and concubine, and the son she gave birth to will be praised as a pearl in the palm of her hand and spoiled like a baby. But Yi Dawson's fourth wife did not have such a good life, she was born as a maid, low status, soon after the birth of her son in late spring, Yi Dawson fell ill and was bedridden, and soon died with a whimper. Poor Yi Wanchun, born honest, honest, and indisputable, after his father's death, he was tortured and humiliated by his brothers in the Yi family; So, at the age of sixteen, he decided to leave his mother and go out to earn a living.

The four fields of Yuanzhou, the vast mountains, the cold winter of Sijiu, the north wind howling, where is his place to live? The moment he stepped out of the West City Gate of Yuanzhou, he was like a lost lamb, and he didn't know where to go. At this moment, a red sun broke through the clouds, the warm sunlight warmed his hands and feet that were about to freeze, and the biting cold wind woke up his simple cerebellum. I saw him look up at the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, straighten the package on his back, wipe his frozen hands, and walk aimlessly towards the northwest. Let's go, let's go! The next evening, he came to the east end of a port. At this time, he was hungry and thirsty, and exhausted. He planned to rest on the grass by the side of the road for a while and then find a drink of water. How could I have no rice grains in my stomach for a day, and after lying down, the whole person seemed to be panting for breath as if he had been evil, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and he fainted after a while. After being rescued by a nearby villager, he wanted to get up and continue westward after waking up, but the villager saw that he was a young man, alone, unlike a playboy who likes to work hard, so he sincerely stayed. Yi Wanchun saw that the village husband was sincere, and tried every means to keep himself, thinking that it was late, he ran away from home to make a living, he was young and ignorant, he had no relatives, and he was very difficult along the way, and there was no place to live at present. If you can stay, it is also a good choice. As the saying goes: the grace of a drop of water should be repaid with a spring, and the grace of saving a life should be repaid for a lifetime. If the villager wants him to stay and work as a helper, why should he do what the villager wants!

In this way, Yi Wanchun became a helper of the villager without hesitation. The village man happened to have no children under his knees, only one daughter, but the age was almost the same as Yi Wanchun, two young people who were in their youth, they were farming and weaving together, eating, drinking and playing, and they couldn't help but fall in love for a long time, the village man saw it in his eyes, and he was happy in his heart, and in the autumn of the following year, a simple wedding ceremony was held for the two of them, and the two young people officially worshiped the church and became husband and wife. From then on, their husbands sang and sang with their wives, gave birth to children, and multiplied. By the time of Yi Wangding's generation, he is already the fifty-second generation of Yijiaping.

"At the end of autumn, the heat is so hot that the ghost cries," this is not false at all in the land of Jiangnan, which is known as the furnace. Seven or eight days have passed since the "beginning of autumn" in 1919, and the scorching sun is still scorching the earth, the grass and trees are dry, and the head is dizzy. Coupled with the fact that there has not been a decent rain for almost a month, the heat is getting worse and worse. There was no way, the men had to work helplessly on their crops shirtless and in trousers; Some children took off to the bottom and played the tricks of the house naked, and the older boys carried the adults on their backs to soak in the small river behind the house to play in the water and catch fish, making a big fuss in the Dragon Palace; Only those small-footed women, a mugwort fan "crackling" at themselves all day long, but this can't relieve the lingering stuffiness at all.

The arrival of the "beginning of autumn" heralds the end of the summer harvest. The farmers generally ate almost all the grain of the previous year by this time, and most of them waited for the new grain to be put on the market, and when they ate the new grain for the first time in the year, the people here called it "eating new rice". "Eating new rice" has a certain emphasis on the Jiangnan area; Whoever "eats new rice" will have to serve it with meat, worship the gods, worship the land, and pray for the blessing of the land of the gods every year, and the harvest of grains.

The day of "summer heat" is the day when Yi Wangding's family "eats new rice". The day before, Yi Wangding deliberately cut a pound and a half of meat at the butcher shop at the head of the village, and caught a bowl of small fish and shrimp in the river behind the house, ready to "eat new rice" the next day.

At noon, Yi Wangding's wife, Yi Heshi, held up her big belly, put the freshly steamed new rice cake, new rice, meat, fish, and wine above the patio, first facing the door, half kneeling and half sitting on the ground, and then closed her hands, looking up to the sky and praying: "God, the father of the land!" Today, our family eats new rice, we have made meat, steamed new rice, I bow to you here: a worship of God, the father-in-law of the land, pray for your protection of Yijiaping, the wind and rain, and the harvest of grains; Second, worship God, the father-in-law of the land, send some mercy, don't be hot anymore! Let's get some rain! Then he turned around again, turned his face to the ancestor, and bowed while saying, "Ancestor! You have to protect me, be obedient, and give birth to a chubby little cub for the Yi family......"

"What are you doing here?" The husband, Yi Wangding, walked in from the gate after finishing his morning's farm work, and suddenly saw his wife kneeling on the ground with a big belly, so he asked loudly.

"Isn't it our family "eating new rice" today? I'm here to worship God! Pray for the gods to appear, it will rain soon, it is too hot to bear, please bless me to give birth to a cub for your Yi family. Yi He replied to her husband softly.

Yi Wangding came to his wife's side in three steps and two steps, gently helped his wife up and said, "You are so big and still kneeling on the ground, are you not afraid of suffocating the child in your belly?" ”

"I'm not going to do other heavy work, I'm respecting God, God will protect our children! Ouch, my son is kicking me! Yi He said as he slowly stroked his bulging belly with his hand.

"The baby may be born, right?" Yi Wangding asked as he looked at his wife's bulging belly.

"I heard from the aunt in the upper hall that it's just these two days!"

"Where did Mom and Dad go? Why not in the house? ”

"Isn't it "eating new rice" today? Mom and Dad brought some new rice and new rice to the Lotus Temple to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva. ”

"Ah, I'm in the Lotus Nunnery again, hey! These two elders are really, they are so old, how can they not be afraid of being tired when they run there all day long? ”

"Isn't Mom and Dad for the sake of the baby in our womb?"

"Yes! The second elder thinks about his grandson and is about to go crazy! ”

"It's just that I'm not angry, I haven't given birth to a child for your Yi family after being pregnant a few times, it's really useless."

"I don't blame you, I don't blame you!" Yi Wangding helped his wife Yi He to walk and comforted him.

Speaking of this, Yi He suddenly cried sadly, and tears flowed down his eyes. This woman's tears are like rain in spring, and they come as soon as they are spoken. Seeing this, Yi Wangding quickly and gently hugged his wife's body, and gently patted his wife's back with his hand and continued: "I don't blame you! Don't blame you! Everything was meant to be! Okay, stop crying, when Mom and Dad come back and see you like this, they think I've bullied you again! Rest assured, we will have a son! Yi Wangding comforted his wife for a while before Yi He stopped crying.

Yi Wangding's father is named Yi Ande, and he has four brothers, and Yi Ande is the third. Their ancestors left their brothers a small house, a white brick and adobe tiled house with six walls and five rooms, that is, four main rooms and one hall; Plus low wings on either side of the patio. The eldest and second live in the upper building, and Yi Ande and the fourth live in the lower building. For some reason, the eldest is easy to be safe, has four sons and two daughters, and now has six grandchildren; The second child is easy to settle down, has three sons and three daughters, and now has four grandchildren; The fourth is Yi Anton, with two sons and three daughters, and three grandsons in front of his knees; But Yi Ande is the only one, presumably because his birthday seems to be too big, as if he is a special person and a woman. His wife Yi Zhang was pregnant with several babies in a row, but each baby was either stillborn or died a few days after birth. Later, after the couple ate and repaired, believed in God and worshiped Buddha, only to get a son in his later years, named Wangding, meaning the prosperity of people. But the son did not bring prosperity to his family as his name, but he did not add a son or a daughter for a few years after marriage, and his daughter-in-law Yi He was also the same as his wife Yi Zhang, and she was pregnant three times in succession, and the fetus was unfortunately born prematurely. Seeing that his second elder was over the age of six, the loess was piled up to the corners of his mouth, but he had not seen half of his granddaughter yet, and he was very anxious. So, the two elders went to the lotus nunnery every now and then to bow to Guanyin Bodhisattva, praying for Guanyin Bodhisattva to appear and send a son as soon as possible, but the wish of their father and son for two generations was fulfilled as soon as possible.

Guanyin Bodhisattva in the Lotus Nunnery, according to legend, is very effective, especially worship her to ask for a child is passed on vividly, whose daughter-in-law is married to worship the church, did not see the belly bulge, as long as you go to the Lotus Nunnery Guanyin Bodhisattva Buddha statue to worship a few times, make a wish, burn some incense paper, after a while, whose daughter-in-law is like eating a panacea, the flat belly slowly bulges. Therefore, since the completion of the Lotus Nunnery,