There is a Huaiyin Temple beside the ancient pagoda tree, and there is an article about it. There is such a record in the inscription: "As the saying goes, if a tree is big and useless, it must have its feelings before it can be trusted. Among the 24 filial piety in ancient times, Yong Dong sold himself to bury his father, which was particularly touching. This story has a long history and is a household name. Until now, it has been talked about by people, especially in Xingping City, Qinchuan, which has far-reaching influence and is quite legendary. The original story is also very simple: Yong Dong's family was poor, his mother died young, and he and his father lived alone. He is honest, hardworking and humble, and everyone in the village has a good reputation. Later, his father died of illness. Because he had no money to bury his father, he sold himself into slavery (promised to work for the rich Fu Man for three years), got 10,000 yuan and buried a woman near his father. When he heard that Yong Dong was diligent, courteous and filial to the elderly, he fell in love. After this wonderful marriage ended, they went to Fu Yuanyang's house, where men plowed and women wove, and soon paid off the debts of the Fu family. Both husband and wife are back, living their own sweet farm work. I don't know when this original peasant story became more and more fascinating, and it became a beautiful fairy tale, referring to bosom as a medium, golden brocade, and the queen mother divorced. The "fairy couple" who saw off their son at the bridge wrote in the article Yong Dong and the Weaver Girl in Gan Bao's Search for the Gods in the Jin Dynasty: "Han Yong Dong, a thousand guests ... lost their father and had no place to be buried, but sold themselves as slaves ... for three years, they wanted to return their masters to slavery, and when they met women, they said,' I would like to be my son's wife' ... Yongyue. God said, "Phil, but your wife knitted me 100 horses". So Yong Yue's wife knitted a sweater for her master's family, and when she left home on the 10th, she said to Yong Yue,' I, the Weaver Maid of Heaven, am also filial to you, and the Emperor of Heaven asked me to help you pay your debts'. And then he left for nothing. I don't know where this story is recorded in Seeking God. In fact, as early as the Three Kingdoms Wei's poem Ganoderma lucidum, there was a corridor of this story, which proved that the story of selling one's body to bury one's father occurred before the Three Kingdoms. As time went on, the story was widely circulated. In addition to the oral legends of the Han nationality, it has also been written into legends and scripts by scholars, including the legend of Yong Dong Huixian and the drama of Dong Xiucai Huixian. At the same time, Yong Dong also changed from a poor farmer who worked and studied, to a scholar in Mourning for Yong Dong, a Dunhuang Bianwen, similar to the above legend. In addition, in legends such as "Ming Xin Yu Xian Ji" and "Gu Jue Zai Brocade", it is also said that it belongs to scholars in the Qing Dynasty. Make the story more vivid and touching. This is undoubtedly the literati's admiration for Dong Yongxian's filial piety and hard work, sympathy for the separation of loving couples, and a beautiful hope and sincere wish. After the founding of New China, Anhui Huangmei Opera "The Fairy Couple" not only put this story on the stage, but also put it on the screen with melodious and beautiful lyric singing, coupled with skillful and exquisite artistic performances and legendary storylines, which immediately caused a sensation throughout the country. Therefore, this ancient Han folklore reached its climax, especially in Xingping area. Apart from being widely circulated and relished, why does it make people have a special charm and cordial feeling? With this question, the author visited some old people in Xingping city, especially the ruins of the book village and Zixiao village related to the story, and consulted the myths about Chen's history. He feels that this story has a strong regional cultural feature of more than 2,000 years. This story has been circulating in Xingping for a long time, because it first happened in Maoling City (now Xingping City), Qinchuan, Yong Dong, whose ancestral home is Qiancheng (now Gaocheng, gaoqing county, Shandong Province). Because of the military war, my ancestors once lived in Xiangshui Valley and then moved to the upper end of dongjiacun Dong nationality's old Rong axis in Maoxiang, Maoling County, Shaanxi Province. They painted portraits of Yong Dong and the Weaver Girl. The villagers regard "all virtues and filial piety first" as their first criterion for being a man. Dongjiacun is located on the north side of the original slope of Maoxiang in Maoling County, adjacent to the current Maoling Museum. According to the route from Yong Dong to the former Xiadongbaozi Fuwaijia, you should walk about 10 Li to the west and pass through Ersixiao Middle School. * * * There are 24 families in the village, and the gate faces south. This is the origin of the famous "Ding Lan carved Mu Zi filial village with 24 south gates". A few miles south of Zixiao Village, you will reach the village where Mr. Fu lives-Dongbaozi and the road south of Zixiao Village. In the southwest, there is a tangled, tall and lush locust tree with a deep ditch. There is a clear spring under the ditch, named "Baiji Spring" 1964. When agricultural Dazhai and Xingping engaged in "one leveling and three ends" farmland capital construction, the bridge was buried underground. This ancient pagoda tree in the south of Zixiao Village is deeply rooted, with a huge crown and gloomy sky, so it is called "Huaiyin Tree". Today, this ancient pagoda tree is the second generation of the old pagoda tree. People over the age of 40 still remember that the old locust tree and the second generation locust tree are near the south, but they are born from the same root. But I don't know when and where, the old locust tree dried up, leaving only a pile of dead wood at the height of the "holy tree". Nobody dares to touch that pile of dead bodies. Around 1985, some old people in the village donated money voluntarily to rebuild a pagoda in the west of Sophora japonica. At that time, when Xingdian Highway (Xingping-Dianjiangjin) was widened and rebuilt in the county, the dead stumps were invited, but the second generation of ancient Sophora japonica still stood in the middle of the road, which affected the widening and reconstruction of the highway. At that time, county leaders and relevant departments had different opinions on whether to cut or not to cut the second generation of ancient Sophora japonica trees, and some advocated cutting to facilitate the smooth flow of roads; Some people hold the objection that the ancient pagoda is a local cultural relic and should not be cut down. At this time, people around have gathered under the ancient locust tree and surrounded it. Cutting is not allowed. After repeated research by the county leaders, it was decided to bypass the village by road and finally protect this ancient Sophora japonica. This proves that the leaders not only have the awareness of cultural relics protection, but also prove the local people's reverence and deep feelings for the ancient Huai and the myths and legends related to the ancient Huai. Shiqiao is the place where Yong Dong and Weaver Girl met and where Weaver Girl sent her son the next year. For this reason, people later called this stone bridge "Yuxian Bridge". At that time, a temple of God and a pavilion to send her son were built beside Xianqiao, which became a holy place for the surrounding people to pray for their children and worship Buddha. Tourists from neighboring counties, cities and provinces often yearn for the name of Fairy Bridge. They come here for sightseeing and cars. Very lively, so far every year on the eighth day of the sixth lunar month, there are good men and women who burn incense and worship Buddha at the grand Huaiyin temple fair, with bright lights. Until late at night, who is the son sent by the Weaver Girl? It has always been said that Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, holds this opinion. Gan Bao didn't mention Songzi in Souqiao, which shows that the plot of Songzi was in the Jin Dynasty and China said: "Dong Zhongshu, the legend of crane god was born in the sky with the son of the Weaver Girl, and was brought back by the Weaver Girl ... Dong Zhongshu grew up to 12 years old and was instructed by Yan Junping to find his mother in Taibai Mountain on July 7 ..." This record of Yun Yun confirmed (of course, According to the official records, Dong Zhongshu, a philosopher and master of Confucian classics in the Western Han Dynasty, adopted Guang Zhuan, which "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", thus creating a precedent for Confucianism as an orthodoxy in feudal society for more than two thousand years. According to the local folklore of Xingping Han nationality, Maoling City was established in the third year of Jian Yuan (139) by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which made the family business in all parts of the country more than 3 million feet. At that time, Maoling had a population of more than 277,000 people and more than 60,000 households, 30,000 more than Chang 'an at that time. It is the most populous county in China. In this great migration, many scholars gathered in Maoling and became a gathering place for talents. It is said that the Historical Records written by Sima Qian in Fuxian County is located in Wuli, Maoling Township. Therefore, Sima Xiangru, a great writer who turned Wu Li into a "historical village", also wrote his masterpiece Shen Fengshu in Maoling Post, while Dong Zhongshu, who wrote Three Strategies for Heaven and Man in dongjiacun, suddenly caused a sensation throughout the country and changed dongjiacun into a "strategic village". Up to now, most people in Cecun are surnamed Dong, and legends are all descendants of Dong Zhongshu. Moreover, according to "Xingping County Records", Feng Youdao, a villager in Cecun, kept it at home. 0.54 meters wide and 0.07 meters thick. It can be seen from the remaining words that this stone is the 48th generation Sun Li of Dong Zhongshu and the ancestor of Dong Zhongshu's 49th, 50th and 50th generations. It can be seen that the characters are: "... Zhongshu was a famous figure before the Han Dynasty ... so far, it has been more than a thousand years ..." Its stone is found in the official history of the fifty-second year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (AD 1787). However, from the folklore of the Han nationality, we can see that there is a kind of public opinion, folk custom and cultural color, which is not only a good wish, but also seems to be close to reasonable, because: ① both of them are Dong surnames and are related by blood; (2) refers to the ancient Sophora flower as the medium, Yuxian Bridge as the messenger, and Dongbaozi as the staff, all in Maolingyi; (3) Out of sympathy for the right, people followed the old adage that "good deeds are rewarded", which made Dong a wise and wise descendant who was knowledgeable, rich, prominent and helpful; (4) Dong Zhongshu moved to Maoling, which coincided with the time when Emperor Wudi moved to Maoling. ⑤ Gambao's Search for the Gods also says: "Han Yong Dong ..." Another way of saying it is that the son sent by the Weaver Girl is Dong Zhuo of the Later Han Dynasty. Few people belong to this statement, because: (1) Dong Zhuo is a traitor, treating traitors as descendants of sages, which is not in line with public opinion, or blaspheming Yong Dong and Zhinv; (2) Although Search for Ji Shen only said that Yong Dong was from the Han Dynasty, it didn't specify whether he was from the pre-Han Dynasty or the post-Han Dynasty. Although the introduction is not standardized, according to the general custom, people who refer to the Han Dynasty refer to the pre-Han Dynasty, such as the Dictionary of Ghosts and Ghosts: "Fan Kuai, Hanjiang"; ③ Dong Zhuo was born in Zhao Lin (now Min County, Gansu Province) in Longxi, Eastern Han Dynasty. He has never been to Maoling Post and has nothing to do with Cecun. (4) The date of birth and death of Dong Zhuo is unknown, and the date of death is 192. Dong Zhongshu was born in 179 and died in 104. They are separated by more than 300 years, and the time span is too large. Of course, legends are legends, not to mention myths. However, as the folklore of the Han nationality, it is not fabricated at will, but through reasonable imagination and artistic structure, or whipping and mocking, or swearing. It makes sense to pin public opinion on legendary stories. And many legends are not only beautiful, but also credible. This credibility is based on the infinite charm and true feelings of art to impress people, thus playing an educational role. Therefore, many stories and legends do not pay attention to the authenticity of the story itself, but place good hopes and wishes, such as the legendary snake essence that the white snake turns into a beautiful woman; In the story of Butterfly Lovers, people become beautiful butterflies. These plots are absolutely impossible in real life, but they are loved by people. The whole legend, from Xingping area to Yong Dong, took Huaiyin as the medium to see the children off on the bridge, which made the story more perfect and moving. Although there are many reasons for this effect, the most important thing is that the connection is clever, natural and reasonable. It integrates the characters, plots, main objects and places-Cecun, Guhuai, Yuxianqiao and Dong Zhongshu, making the story rooted and eye-catching, thus establishing the credibility of the story in Xingping. Of course, the touching story is not only artistic charm, but also highlights a theme: filial piety is a spiritual realm that thousands of families in Qian Qian always hope, admire, need and pursue and worship traditional virtues. It has a distinct imprint of life, and at the same time, it has publicized the people-oriented thought and the humanistic connotation of goodwill. All these constitute the folk culture color with Xingping regional characteristics, reflecting the fine tradition of local people's diligence and loyalty, respecting the old and loving the young, which is undoubtedly deeply influenced by Ding Lan woodcarving and Yong Dong's selling his body to bury his father.