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Longcheng legend
According to legend, in ancient times, there was a dragon in Lianshui River. The dragon often does evil and wreaks havoc on both sides of the strait, causing untold suffering on both sides. People feel scared and helpless, so they have to slaughter pigs and sheep on the day when the dragon rises in the second lunar month every year, and make sacrifices to Shui Bo, the river god and the dragon for peace.

One year during the Dragon Boat Festival, people burned mugwort and cooked realgar wine to celebrate the festival. In the afternoon, there is a dragon boat race in Lianshui River, and there are crowds on both sides of the strait. Suddenly, the dragon did evil again. Suddenly, a strange wind blew up on the ground and the sky was dark. Then the river was rough, it rained cats and dogs, and the dragon boat capsized. Those who didn't reach the shore had to dive to escape, and the boat watchers on the shore only hated my parents for missing a leg and fled in panic, leaving countless footprints along the way. The river overflowed and the banks became Yuan Ze. People are displaced, hungry and cold, and the four fields cry again and again. During the crisis, a Yue Xian and an auspicious cloud floated in the sky, holding a clean bottle of willow leaves and a woman in white. People of insight said: This South China Sea Guanyin is also. Because the willow branches in the woman's hands were lighter than the Buddha's, the rainstorm stopped, the dark clouds quickly dispersed and the river retreated to the riverbed. The woman called the dragon and asked the dragon to go to the South China Sea with her and sit in accordance with the three treasures. When the dragon saw that the woman had broken witchcraft, he became angry from embarrassment. He was not moved, but ran at the woman with his teeth bared. The woman is now a dharma body, three feet tall, with tassels on her shoulders, golden light on her head, feet on the lotus platform, thousands of hands and eyes, and bright eyes between her eyebrows. "Radiation will cover the dragon. When all beings on the shore saw the Bodhisattva surrender to the dragon, they all bowed down in vain and begged the Bodhisattva to kill the people. The bodhisattva turned into a diamond pestle with one hand and struck hard. Underground is a deep well, and the Bodhisattva turned it into a chain, with half a polyester belt around her waist, and locked the dragon in the well, so the wind and waves in the river stopped. The villagers were afraid that the dragon would rush out and harm the world, so they raised money at the wellhead of Longsuo and carved the Buddha's dharma body they saw that day, which has been preserved to this day. It is said that whenever there is a storm, you can smell the faint noise in the well. It is rumored that the dragon wanted to escape by storm, but it was stopped by Guanyin Bodhisattva. And change Xiangxiang into Longcheng. Since then, Hunan's favorable weather, drought and waterlogging have all been attributed to Guanyin Bodhisattva. People on both sides of the strait are grateful to Guanyin Bodhisattva. Every year during the Christmas holidays of February 19, June 19, September 19,1month 19, Guanyin Bodhisattva will gather in yunmen temple to worship Buddha and pray for peace.

The largest and longest avalokitesvara bodhisattva with thousands of hands and eyes is in yunmen temple. Welcome to yunmen temple to worship, pray and make wishes. The largest and longest avalokitesvara bodhisattva with thousands of hands and eyes, I hope everyone will abide by the temple rules and be sincere and spiritual. He will take the initiative to buy tickets into the temple, and the money will be used for the maintenance and expansion of the temple. Do not fight, quarrel, make trouble, smoke or litter in the temple. Never offend gods or violate temple rules.

Civilized respect for incense: don't set off firecrackers or burn paper, don't light candles to talk about environmental protection, advocate offering incense and flowers to Buddha, and Bodhisattva will bless you even more. Setting off firecrackers affects the quietness of temples, and paper and candles pollute the environment. It is not recommended to burn good incense (sandalwood), but it is also not suitable to burn long sticks and a lot of inferior incense. It is suggested to offer fruits and flowers to the Buddha, and ask the layman to take the lead in promoting them.

Do more good, don't do it, and do less bad. Buddha helps good people, and good people are rewarded in this life and the next. The largest and longest avalokitesvara bodhisattva with thousands of hands and eyes hopes that all good men and women will protect the ancient temple of yunmen temple for thousands of years, and their merits will be boundless.

Another way of saying it

Xiangxiang is an ancient city with a history of more than two thousand years since Qinjian County. There is a dragon cave in the suburbs, so it is also called Longcheng. Longdong is located in Longdong Township, Xiangxiang City, with a limestone cave more than a thousand meters long. Anzi has a strange cave, which is 8km away from Shaoshan Mao Zedong's former residence in the north and 15km away from Xiangxiang City in the south. Legend has it that there are dragons living here, so it is called Longdong. Now Longdong Township in Xiangxiang City is named after this.

According to legend, a dragon that has been lying in An Zi for thousands of years can't stand the loneliness in a deep cave and the hardships of spiritual practice. Before the expiration of practice, the hand-held beads forcibly broke through the hole and climbed into the sky, eventually failing. As a result, Zhucuo Road in the northwest died in soapy water, and now it belongs to Baitian Town, Xiangxiang, leaving a place name of "killing dragons" there. Dragon without pearl, blindly to the southeast, the body is now in the area of Chunhu, Longdong Township, Xiangxiang, leaving a place name of "dry killing dragon" there. It is said that people used 30 beds of bamboo poles to cover the dragon's body at that time, which shows the size of the dragon. There is a paddy field called "Longtou Daqiu", which, as the name implies, is where the head of this dragon corpse is placed. Judging from the same place names of Zaoshui and Hu Quan "Dry Salon", it is inferred that this dragon and the pearls that lead it are both thirsty. If this is reasonable, then where is the dragon's water? The local old man said: this dragon has no results and no patience. As soon as it came out of the hole, it brought all the water out and washed down a hill in front of the hole, which not only caused a gully several meters deep, several meters wide and several hundred meters long, but also caused its own tragedy, which was regrettable.