There are many historical celebrities in Taikang County. There are Guangwu, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, Ba Huang, the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty, Xie An, the prime minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, He Zeng, the poetess of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, He, the poetess of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xie Xuan, and Xie Lingyun and Gu Zuo, the ancient scholars of the Ming Dynasty.
I love it not only because of its long history, but also because of its simple folk customs and unpretentious natural scenery.
There is a river that originates in Kaifeng County, flows southeast to the Huaihe River, and runs through the whole territory of Taikang. It is called the Vortex River. There is also a legend about the origin of the name of the Wohe River, which is related to Dayu's water control. Five thousand years ago, Dayu controlled water, cut through the Yangtze River and dredged the Yellow River, and the sewers were basically unblocked. After Dayu's flood control, he heard that there is a big river between Huanghuai and a black dragon, which often floods and harms the people. Dayu bid farewell to his wife Tu Shanshi and left with 360 dragons. He waded from Huaiyuan, Anhui Province to the south of Kaifeng, the source of this big river, to clean the river. When dredging from west to east to the west of Bozhou city, a large vortex appeared. People say that it is an old Longtan, the nest of the black dragon making waves. Dayu is determined to eradicate this dragon that has stirred up droughts and floods on both sides of the strait and made people miserable. Dayu sent dragons into the whirlpool to look for the black dragon. I didn't expect the black dragon to be fierce. The dragon was beaten black and blue, and the helmet and armor were gone, all of which hurt. Dayu felt very embarrassed, thinking about burying the pot and cooking, having a good rest, and it is not too late to fight again. When Dayu was cooking, the smug black dragon jumped out of the water to eat Dayu. Dayu used his quick wits to pick up the cauldron that was cooking and throw it at the black dragon. The pot suddenly became extremely powerful, covering the whole black dragon in the pot and falling under the deep pool. Since then, the black dragon has never escaped from Dayu's pot. After Dayu subdued the black dragon, he soon dredged the whole river. The river becomes clear and fluctuates regularly, and farmland on both sides of the river can be irrigated by drought and drained by waterlogging. The people thanked Dayu for managing this big river. To commemorate Dayu's killing dragons with a pot, people on both sides of the river called this river a pot river.
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? No matter where the wanderer leaves home, as long as he closes his eyes in the dead of night, the mountains, rivers, villages, ditches, valleys, grasses and trees in his hometown will emerge in front of him and become clearer and more eternal in the erosion of years. People who care about me, people who care about me, people who love me, and people I love are all in this city. Wherever I drift, there is a lamp waiting for me, and people who miss me are sitting under it. Taikang, where my life is entangled in dreams.