Volume 2: Snow Ridge Please Ling - Haidong Imperial Mausoleum Chapter 218: Jiaolong Temple
Yuxiao Heavenly Court, in front of the dragon scraping platform.
Scrape dragon scales, peel dragon skin, turn dragon bones, and grab dragon balls, all in one go.
The majestic blue-scaled dragon instantly transformed into a green-skinned python, and the black dragon also suppressed it on the Tianchi not far from the Bohai Sea, and ordered it to guard the Eye of the Bohai Sea!
Qinglong was so wronged that he had to collide and cry in Tianchi day and night, and his anger completely ignited Tianchi, and the entire Tianchi began to erupt.
The surrounding people are afraid that the frogs will be angry, causing the people of Baishan to suffer, so they specially built the Jiaolong Temple to worship it as the Jiaolong King, and every time they look forward to the incense offerings!
In this way, Jiaolong extinguished his anger, and Tianchi gradually stabilized in the following thousand years.
The Dragon King always remembered that it was the East China Sea Clan who framed him, and he didn't like any water tribes in Tianchi, so there was nothing else in Tianchi except this Jiaolong.
Tianchi was hit by it because of a gap, which formed today's Tongtian River, and the people generally call it Jiaoye River.
They built the temple on the bank of the Tongtian River, which was convenient for the Dragon King to enjoy the offerings!
Ge Da told the folk story of the evil Jiao in the East China Sea very well, and Yue Erpao heard the cold silk on his back, and his eyes widened:
"Do you really worship the Dragon King on the fifteenth day of the first month of every month? Then this thing will really appear to enjoy the offering. ”
Geda rubbed the back of his head and shook his head:
"We really haven't seen this, every fifteenth day of the new year, nearly ten Huangwei villages near Baishan will indeed go to the Jiaolong Temple to offer incense!"
"I haven't seen Jiaolong much, but I did see animals in the Tongtian River coming out of Tianchi, most of them are black catfish several meters long, and the villagers say that this is the Jiaolong King turned into an aquarium to collect incense."
"I don't know where they came from, only these two days can I see them!"
"In the past, there were mussel pickers who planted river mussels in Tianchi, and when the river mussels were dug out, the east pearl inside was actually blood red, as if soaked in blood, and it was said that it was the tears of the evil Jiao, this kind of unlucky pearl has no value, and no one came to Tianchi over time."
Yue Guanchao didn't wait for him to finish, he rode his horse and ran towards the Black Wild Forest, they tied the fat horse to the tree, and carefully observed the Jiaolong Temple!
The Jiaolong Temple in the countryside is very different from the official Dragon King Temple!
The Dragon King Temple has many yellow tiles and cornices, and is full of colors, but the Jiaolong Temple is much more simple and primitive, just a courtyard with peeling walls.
In front of the courtyard gate, three rusty copper characters of Jiaolong Temple are inlaid into the blue lacquer plaque, and the engraving in front of the door carves out the Jiaolong relief, and the eaves of the main hall can be seen from a distance.
Jiaolong Temple is cleaned every month, and it is not too deserted, and after they push the door in, the pattern of the courtyard gradually comes into view.
The whole Jiaolong temple courtyard is square, the two sides of the main hall are the east and west side halls and the house, there is a corridor to connect it, there is a stone square altar in the courtyard, an old pine green needle is dense, a little rime on the top of the head, standing on the altar, vigorous and verdant.
The north wall of the courtyard, that is, the main hall of the single eaves of the mountain with five frames and three rooms, the giant arch is elevated, the spine of the hall is specially made of a high cocked owl kiss, like the two dragon horns of the dragon towering towards the sky, and two half-height stone lanterns stand outside the hall door!
"This kind of house with gray tiles and white walls and red pillars and mullioned windows is the style of the Tang Dynasty, but after thousands of years of repair, it has become nondescript, let's go in and have a look."
They pushed open the Jiaolong Hall, and the layout of the hall was not much different from the Dragon King Temple.
The white stone treasure platform is built with a fence, and the gold curtains, treasures, canopies, and dragon chairs are displayed separately, and the emperor is sitting in danger, wearing majestic clothes and crowns, and everything is aligned with the emperors of the world.
It's just that the position of the human head on the gon is a blue-scaled dragon.
It can be seen that the head of the dragon is the original shape of the python, in order to fit the image of the dragon king better, the top of its head is added with antlers, meat fins, protrusions, fangs, and catfish whiskers, with a bloody mouth open, like a snakehead monster and catfish essence.
This thing is said to be very reluctant to say that the dragon lord is very reluctant, the dragon lord is mostly kind and kind-eyed, and the dragon king in front of him is more like a snake spirit python monster in the mountains and wilderness that has been worshiped by evil arts, and there is no honor of righteousness at all.
Around the dragon king, there are nine knee-high low stone platforms, on which the statues of Jiaohou, Bengfei, Turtle Prime Minister, Shrimp Soldier, Crab General, Yu Shuai, Yaksha, Dragon Son, Dragon Sun and so on are displayed in turn.
Like the Dragon King, holding a human body and putting on a fish head, it looks nondescript and very weird.
"You guys also worship a real dragon king, what's the matter with building a temple for Jiaolong."
Yue Erpao looked up at the Jiaolong King under the stage, unconsciously felt numb in his back, and shrank his neck.
Ge Da prayed a few times in front of the dragon, and then he booed and warned Yue Erpao: "Shh, don't say bad things in front of the gods, they will be angry, be careful that trouble comes out of your mouth." ”
"Besides, we're going to stay here tonight, and we use other people's territory, so we have to pay lip service."
"That's right, I'll go out first to find some wood, so that I can burn wood for warmth at night."
Yue Erpao also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he hurriedly left here with a void in his heart.
The only word in the crowd left, and the temple immediately fell silent.
The cold wind blew into the hall, blowing the bead curtain on the crown of the dragon king, and the thing rattled, as if the dragon king had come to life.
Yue Guanchao stood in front and looked up at the statue of the Dragon King.
Its hands were flat on the unsuitable wat board, and the edges of the wat board were not neatly cut, like an uncarved wooden sign, rough and rough.
He thought that the original thing in the hand of the Dragon King was definitely not a wat board, this board was indiscriminately stuffed into his hand.
"You say, what the hell is the old man holding in his hand!"
Everyone was attracted by Yue Guanchao's words, and they were looking up at the statue carefully, and the temple gate roared like tearing the liver and gallbladder, which frightened people.
"Mom, the old dragon king has appeared, help."
"I won't offend you anymore, Lord Dragon, spare your life."