On the top of the Beijing Bell Tower, a huge bronze bell hangs.

The bell is strong and powerful, loud and long, and can be heard in a radius of several miles, which can be called the "ancient bell". How is such a huge bronze bell cast?Legend has it that the bell tower originally had an iron bell, but the sound was not loud enough, so the emperor ordered to gather craftsmen from all over the world to cast the bell.

But three years later, the bell still hasn't been cast. The emperor was furious, and beheaded the eunuchs, and ordered the bell to be cast within eighty days, otherwise all the craftsmen would be beheaded.

The master in charge of casting the bell was surnamed Hua Yan, and he was a famous coppersmith at that time. In order to cast this bell, he didn't think about tea and dinner, couldn't sleep at night, and exhausted his hard work. When he returned home that day, he was still muttering: "Why can't I cast the bell, I'm afraid it's because of the lack of something!" At this time, her daughter Hua Xian came over. Speaking of Hua Xian, she is really a good girl, she has been smart and clever since she was a child, and she learned a lot of coppersmith work from her father.

Due to the early death of her mother, she took on the burden of the family at the age of fourteen. Now she is sixteen years old, and she is like a fairy, and everyone praises the old coppersmith for raising a good girl. She has been thinking about the bell for many days. Seeing this, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Dad, is it because the heat is not enough" The old coppersmith slapped his thigh: "It makes sense!" Then I thought, "But how do I raise the temperature of the furnace?" Hua Xian said confidently, "You can take me there on the day of the bell." The day of the bell casting came, and the court officials, craftsmen and craftsmen of all sizes had arrived, but the furnace temperature still could not go up.

Seeing that this last furnace of copper water was about to fail again, Hua Yan's eyes were red with anxiety. At this moment, a girl suddenly rushed out of the crowd, it was the beautiful Hua Xian. She wore a red jacket and red pants, and a pair of embroidered red shoes. I saw her rush to the hearth and jump into it. Hua Yan didn't catch it, only grabbed a small embroidered shoe.

In an instant, the furnace fire rises, and the copper water rolls. The old coppersmith reluctantly ordered: "Cast the bell!" The craftsmen worked together, and the bronze bell was finally cast.

In order to commemorate this beautiful girl who dedicated herself to the bell casting, people respectfully called her "the bell casting lady". On the eve of the storm, the bell is desolate and sad. At this time, the mothers in Beijing would say to their children: "Go to sleep, the bell tower is belling, and the bell lady wants her embroidered shoes..." ”

A long time ago, there was an old farmer on the bank of Jiuqu River, the rice wine he brewed was mellow and sweet, as long as the wine jar was opened, Wuyi Mountain was full of strong wine aroma for three days and three nights.

The villagers who farmed drank the rice wine brewed by the old farmer, and they were not tired from working for 365 days; I drank the rice wine brewed by the old farmer in a hurry, and I didn't feel hard to walk 9,900 miles.

People liked the old farmer from the bottom of their hearts and respectfully called him "Father Tian". Tian's father's name spread everywhere with the fragrance of his wine. At that time, the eight immortals of the eight caves showed their gods through the East China Sea and visited many famous mountains and rivers. On this day, I smelled the aroma of wine in Wuyi Mountain and was secretly surprised. Tie Guan Li couldn't help but salivate, and shouted to his companions: "If you miss such good wine and don't drink it, you will really be a god in vain, and I will go to Wuyi Mountain for a while." When the other immortals heard this, they were in tune, so some dressed up as tea sellers, some dressed up as wandering Taoist priests, and went to Tian's father's house on the bank of Jiuqu River to drink. As usual, Father Tian scooped out his own wine and warmly entertained the guests. The Eight Immortals drank Tian's father's wine, and even claimed that it was good, and was full of praise. Although they have tasted the jade liquid of the Xianjia family and the fine wine of the world, they have never drunk such fragrant and delicious rice wine from the Wuyi Mountain farm, which is really the best quality.

After that, the Eight Immortals were reluctant to go to other places to enjoy the mountains and rivers. Especially Tie Guan Li, since he drank Tian's father's rice wine, he can be regarded as finding his "in-laws", and he is limping with a cane every day, going to Tian's father's house to buy wine and drink, and after drinking, he has to pack a bottle and take it away. After a long time, he made friends with Tian's father.

On that day, Tie Guan Li drank wine at Tian's father's house, three glasses of wine, his face was red, and he shook his head and asked Tian's father: "How can you make such a wonderful fine wine?" ”

Father Tian pointed to Danshan in the distance and replied, "This wine is brewed from rice grown in the fertile fields at the foot of Wuyi Mountain. ”

Tie Guan Li nodded: "What else?" Father Tian pointed to the blue water in front of the door and replied, "This wine is brewed from the sweet water in Jiuqu Creek." Tie Guan Li nodded again: "What else?" Father Tian pointed to the wine jar next to the table and replied, "This wine is brewed from the porcelain jar fired in the Yulin kiln. Tie Guan Li's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed excitedly: "Okay! These three are all treasures of Wuyi Mountain, no wonder you can make such a wonderful wine! He praised Father Tian again and again, dancing happily, and even forgot that he had to go to the peach banquet in Yaochi with the other seven immortals!

By the time the Seven Immortals found Tian's father's house, took away Tie Guan Li, and rushed to Yaochi, the Pan Tao banquet had already begun. I saw rows of tabletops, with the boss's fairy peaches, and in front of the guests, full of fragrant fairy wine. The immortals gathered, the cups were staggered, and it was a lively scene.

The Tie Guan Li hurriedly sat down in the banquet, raised his glass and drank it, but as soon as the wine was in his mouth, he spit out with a "wow", and all the immortals at the banquet were stunned.

When the Queen Mother saw this, she thought it was strange, so she asked the Eight Immortals. Tie Guan Li was a straight person, and he replied first: "What kind of wine is your Yaochi Qiong brew, it is not as delicious as the rice wine of Wuyi Yamatian's father's house!" ”

At this moment, a burst of wine fragrance wafted from Wuyi Mountain, lingering on the Yao Pond, and the immortals at the banquet smelled it, salivating, and the queen mother couldn't help but smack her mouth, blaming the wine-making immortal, who was not as good as a farmer in the world. The brewing immortal blushed and was speechless for a long time.

Tie Guan Li blinked his eyes and said to the Queen Mother: He is willing to go with the wine-making immortal to buy back a jar of rice wine from Tian's father, so that all the immortals can also taste the world's fine wine and enjoy the blessings of the mouth. Then the queen mother turned her anger into joy, and told the two to go and return quickly.

The two immortals came to Tian's father's house in a hurry, and Tie Guan Li 1510 explained his intentions. Father Tian heard that the immortals were going to drink mortal wine, and his heart was also happy.

Father Tian said, "Okay, I'll give you a jar of rice wine." ”

The two immortals were overjoyed, Tie Guan Li Lian said thank you, and the wine-making immortal picked up a jar of wine sent by Tian's father, said goodbye to Tian's father, and hurried back to Yaochi. The iron crutch Li had inconvenient legs and feet, and he was tired enough to run back and forth like this. Halfway through, he had no choice but to ask the wine-making immortal to send the wine back first, and walk slowly by himself, but he repeatedly explained: "This wine is good, you must leave me a few bowls!" The wine-making immortal agreed, and left first with the wine jar in his arms.

The queen mother saw the rice wine of Wuyi Yamada's father, and tasted it really beautiful, it was really worthy of its name, and she was very happy.

Ordered the brewing immortal to pour it for the immortals on the table to taste. The wine-making immortal only cared about pouring wine for everyone, forgetting the explanation of Tie Guan Li, and when Tie Guan Li arrived, there was not much wine in the wine jar.

Tie Guan Li came back, tired and out of breath, he wanted to drink a few bowls of rice wine to relieve fatigue, and when he saw that his wine bowl was empty, and then looked at the appearance of the wine-making immortal holding the wine jar to pour wine for the immortals, he understood that there was not much wine left in the altar, and he suddenly became angry, angry, and raised his cane to beat the wine-making immortal.

The wine-making immortal hurriedly dodged, only to hear the sound of "dangchang", but the person did not hit, but hit Tian's father's wine jar. The wine-making immortal couldn't hold it, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the wine jar bones rolled out of the Yao Pond and fell to the world. What a coincidence, the wine jar was impartial, and it fell into the mountains on the south bank of Wuqu Mountain.

It was only cracked by Tie Guan Li, and the remaining rice wine trickled into Jiuqu Creek from the crack. After that, this wine jar turned into a strange peak of Wuyi Mountain, like an optimus prime, but also like a stone jar, which is very spectacular. People call it Tianzhu Peak, and those who understand its origin call it Jiutan Peak.

People say that the rice wine left in the jar still flows to the Jiuqu River day and night, and the aroma of the wine is inexhaustible. Therefore, the wine made with Jiuqu River water is delicious and fragrant, and everyone has given it a very beautiful name "Wuyi Liuxiang".

According to legend, the sun god Emperor Yan had two daughters, the eldest daughter's name was Yao Ji, and the younger daughter's name was Nuwa. Because of the boredom of living in the heavenly palace for a long time, one day, the girl drove a boat to swim in the East China Sea and drowned, its uneven elf turned into a flower head, a white beak shell, a kind of bird with red claws, inhabited in the Fa Jiu Mountain, issued a sad cry of "Jingwei, Jingwei", people called this bird Jingwei bird. Jingwei rank grass stone flew from Fajiu Mountain to the East China Sea and vowed to fill the East China Sea.

Tao Yuanming poem of the Jin Dynasty said: Jingwei Weimu will fill the sea. Later generations often use the idiom "Jingwei reclamation", which is a metaphor for the established eternal goal, and it is backed by the spirit of perseverance.

After the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, he established a tribal alliance. The Yellow Emperor was elected by the people as the leader of the tribal alliance, leading everyone to develop production, grow grains, domesticate animals, smelt copper and iron, and manufacture production tools; And to do the work of dressing, I will leave it to my wife and ancestors. The ancestors often led the women up the mountain to peel the bark of trees, weave hemp nets, and also peel off the skins of various wild animals that the men hunted and processed them. In a short time, the chiefs of the tribes, large and small, put on their clothes and shoes, and put on their hats.

One day, the ancestor led the women of the tribe up the mountain, and suddenly found a mulberry forest full of small white fruits.

They thought they had found fresh fruit, so they brought it back to the tribe. But the small fruits could not be bitten and did not have any taste, so the ancestor poured all the white fruits into the pot, boiled them with water, and stirred them with wooden sticks

。 After stirring for a while, I pulled the wooden stick out, and there were many white threads as thin as hair. It didn't take long for all the small white fruits boiled in the pot to turn into snow-white silk threads, which looked dazzling and unusually soft.

She was a very wise woman, and she looked carefully at the fine silk threads wrapped around the sticks, and then said happily, "This is not a fruit, and it cannot be eaten, but it may be of other use." She looked at it for a long time, and finally realized that the little white fruit was originally woven by a kind of worm's mouth and filament, not from a tree, and could be used as a raw material for clothing.

Since then, under the advocacy of the ancestors, people began the history of planting mulberry and raising silkworms. In order to commemorate this achievement, later generations honored her as "the first silkworm mother".

Tian Pangu Kaitian is the protagonist of Pangu, a figure of Chinese folk mythology and legend, first seen in the "Three Five Calendars" written by Wu Guoxu during the Three Kingdoms period.

In ancient times, there was a giant star floating in space, shaped like an egg. Inside the giant star, there was a giant named Pangu, who had been digging with his axe in an attempt to free himself from the siege. After 18,000 years of hard work, Pangu swung the last axe, only to hear a loud bang, and the giant star split in half.

Half of the giant star on Pangu's head turned into gas and kept rising; The half of the giant stars under our feet became the earth, which continued to thicken, and the universe began to have heaven and earth. The heavens and the earth are three feet taller every day, and Pangu is getting bigger and bigger, becoming a hero who "stands up to the sky and the earth".

When Pangu was dying, his whole body underwent a huge change. His left eye turned into a bright red sun, his right eye turned into a silver moon, his last breath turned into wind and clouds, the last sound he made became thunder, and his hair and beard turned into twinkling stars.

His head, hands and feet became the four poles of the earth and mountains, his blood became rivers and lakes, his veins became roads, his muscles became fertile land, his skin and hair became flowers and trees, his teeth and bones became treasures of gold, silver, copper, iron, and jade, and his sweat became rain and nectar. From then on, there was a world.