In the mysterious cave of Longling where ghosts blow out lanterns, Hu Bayi and three others listened to the story of Shaanxi farmer Li Chunlai and went to Shaanxi to "shovel land".
They finally caught a motor boat to cross the Yellow River, but they did not expect the boat to collide.
They caught the "Ironhead Kingfish" and almost fell into the river to feed the fish.
Later, they inquired and found out that this kind of big fish had appeared before.
Someone also spent money to buy the bones of the big fish and built a "fish Bone Temple".
This is the plot of a novel in the book, but in fact "fish bone temples" have appeared in coastal areas such as Dengcenzi in Tianjin, Rizhao in Shandong, Zhejiang and even Vietnam.
The Fish Bone Temple of Deng Cenzi in Tianjin is even said to have a couplet given by Emperor Kangxi: tegt Hundred-year-old fish bones serve as beams, and thousand-year-old tortoise marrow is attached to the Supreme Being. gt This means that the beams and purlins of this fish bone temple are made of fish bones, and the base of the statue in the temple is a thousand-year-old turtle shell.
However, this temple collapsed due to broken fish bones during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty.
However, the fish bone temple in Rizhao, Shandong Province has survived to this day and left a very complete folk legend.
Rizhao, Shandong Province is located southwest of Qingdao, close to the outlet of the ancient Yellow River.
It has always been an important fishing center because of the fresh water.
Legend has it that in the early years, the tides in the sea were often out of order.
From time to time, there were rough seas, violent storms, broken masts, leaking cabins, capsized ships, and casualties more and more every year.
As soon as the fishermen went to sea, the hearts of the whole family were in their throats.
One day during the high tide, a big fish floated up on the beach outside Haikou.
Its eyes were gone.
It was brought up by two small fish.
The strange thing is that as soon as the two small fish were brought up, they turned around and swam back, leaving the big fish alone on the beach and never came back, as if they were on a business trip.
What's even more strange is that the sea water has never risen to that point, and the sun has been as poisonous as fire for days.
It is thirsty and scorching, and the big fish finally dries to death on the beach.
That same night, people in the surrounding villages suddenly had an identical dream.
In the dream, the Dragon King told everyone: The big fish often made trouble and swallowed fishermen, violating the laws of heaven.
According to the law, his eyes were removed and he was given death by the seaside to pay tribute to the local people.
The common people paid back their flesh and bones to show their virtue and calm the people's hearts.
Early the next morning, those who had lost their loved ones in the shipwreck secretly talked with each other, half-confidently, and passed the news to others.
Finally, they became bold and rushed to the beach with knives and baskets on their backs to cut off the scales and cut the flesh.
In order to repay the Dragon King for his kindness and to show the power of the dragon and warn the fishes, local fishermen who had money and strength built a small single-room temple with fish bones on the west slope of the beach where the big fish fell shallow.
Purlin, scales are tiles.
There is only one statue of the Dragon King in the temple, which is named "Fish Bone Temple".
According to this legend, the stranded big fish should be a whale.
It uses fish bones several meters long as beams.
Only whale bones are available for this length.
Although there are not as many news about whale strandings along the coast of my country as there are in Australia in the southern hemisphere, where whales wash up in batches year after year, you can always hear about one or two every few years
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