Social Xi stories are stories that explain the origin of life Xi. China is an ancient civilization with a long history, and the people create relatively fixed behavior patterns in terms of time cycle and life etiquette according to the needs of social life, forming systematic customs and Xi. These customs and Xi have been passed down from generation to generation with the development of the times, and every certain day of the year, everyone does the corresponding thing, and everyone holds the corresponding ceremony when they reach a certain age, and people do not know why they have to do it, but they all live according to the customs and Xi. As a result, some people made up stories about the origin of these customs and Xi, and the stories Xi social life were born. Chaoshan folk also have rich stories of social life Xi. 1. Production Xi storiesIn the old days, there was a form of marine operation in the Chenghai area, which was called "Chaoshan Crying Fish". "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" has an account of the "long-armed country": "Long-legged people often carry long-armed people into the sea to fish. The Qing Jiaqing version of "Chenghai County Chronicles" also recorded: "In the tide, there are fake clogs. The fake sandals are two-legged, and the sticks are sharpened. In the sea, it is more exchanged, and the depth of the tide is higher, and the length is more than that. The shallow tide is low, several feet long. Gradually in the shallow sea, day or night, up and down with the waves. From these records, it is not difficult to imagine the fishing scene with long wooden stilts on his feet and long bamboo poles in the shallow sea. There is a folklore behind the "Chaoshan Crying Fish". 
During the Ming Dynasty, in a seaside fishing village, there was a young man who contracted leprosy, and the villagers put the young ** on an unknown small island. On that island, he met a female savage, and the female savage found herbs to help him**. After a long time, his condition slowly improved, and the two also developed feelings and gave birth to a little boy named Xiaohai. Having lived on that unknown island for a long time, he missed his relatives back home. One day, Xiaohai's father found a fishing boat not far from the sea, so he used dry branches to make torches to ask the fishermen on the fishing boat for help, and the fishermen saved their father and son. But Xiaohai's mother went out to pick wild fruits, and they waited for a long, long time on the boat, and the weather was about to change, and the boatman refused to wait for ......When Xiaohai's mother came back, she saw that the boat was far away, and she screamed sadly while desperately swimming into the sea, she swam and swam in the sea, and a big wave hit and swept her into the vast sea. Xiaohai has been diligent and studious since he was a child, and after he grew up to become an official, in order to find his mother's bones, he called dozens of officers and soldiers to go down to the sea with long bamboo poles in their hands and long wooden stilts on their feet to look for them. The news soon spread among the fishermen at the seaside, and the fishermen used this method to catch fish in this way, and it has been spread to this day. The legend is beautiful and moving, but also tragic. In today's modern civilization, these simple fishermen still retain their primitive fishing methods. With the increasing social and economic development and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, there are no young people who are willing to inherit this ancient way of life, and such folk fishing methods are gradually disappearing!The fishermen of Yunao Township, Nanao, when building a truss trough, must first call "Ah Liuge", and then "two, three, four, five......"Count the earth. Why don't you pronounce the word "one", but you pronounce "Ah Liuge"?
It is said that during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the Yunao people just began to build truss troughs in the sea for fishing. But how to go to the sea, how to build truss piling, is not good, so the truss trough is often not built firmly, encountered strong winds and waves, it is washed clean. One day, while the fishermen were building a truss, a stranger of about forty years old came to the beach. This man was born a tall man, and when he saw everyone, he said: "Brothers, I am from Lianjiang, Fujian, and I am quite familiar with this trip, and I am willing to help everyone build a truss." When they saw that he was talking cheerfully, they were willing to ask him for help. This year, he taught everyone a set of methods for building trusses and troughs, and caught a lot of fish. Everyone was very grateful to him, and after a long time, they called him "Brother Liu". One day, Ah Liuge and everyone went out to sea to catch smelt. Suddenly, the wind blew, the waves were monstrous, the truss swayed very much, the truss is the lifeblood of the fishermen, and everyone couldn't think of a rescue method for a while, but you look at me, I see your dry anxiety. Seeing this scene, Ah Liuge said, "The truss groove is shaking so hard, I am afraid that the truss rope below is broken, and it needs to be repaired at the bottom of the sea." The risk is high, the waves are high, and everyone has no experience in going to the sea to connect the rope, who will go down?Just when everyone was in a hurry, Brother Ah Liu said calmly: "Wait for me to go to the sea." Everyone wouldn't let him go down, but he said, "Brothers, you haven't learned how to go to the sea to connect the ropes, I can't watch the truss being washed away, I'm here to do it, so let me go down!."Then he took off his cloak and threw himself into the sea. The people on the boat were all frowning, worried about Ah Liuge's safety. After a long time, the truss suddenly stopped swaying, but Ah Liuge did not come up. Time passed by minute by minute, everyone waited!Wait!Until the sunset, Brother Ah still didn't come up. Everyone is feeling hopeless. They all cried with tears in their eyes. When the fishermen returned home, the villagers knew about it, and men, women and children wept bitterly. Afterwards, everyone pooled some money and sent people to visit Lianjiang Aliu's hometown, but they all said that there was no one named "Huang Aliu" there. In order to commemorate Brother Liu, the fishermen of Yunao Township invited a stonemason to carve a stone statue for him, and engraved his deeds on the stone tablet and placed it at the end of the truss groove. He also attached the day of his death, which was the twelfth day of the fourth month of the summer calendar, as "Changnian Sheng" (the meaning of Ah Liuge's immortality). Every year on this day, a lantern is made to commemorate this foreign hero who sacrificed himself for the group. Since then, the fishermen of Yunao Township have to call "Ah Liuge" first when they build trusses and drive piles and dive into the sea. This Xi has remained unchanged for more than 300 years. "Black goose and white goose, out of the plunder to nothing", this is a popular saying in Nanao Island. The so-called "black goose" is the black dolphin;The "white goose" is the white dolphin. The dolphin that "is slippery and slippery and swims in Kyushu overnight" is called "righteous fish" by South Australian fishermen. Since ancient times, the waters of South Australia have been protected, and fishermen do not catch dolphins and no one harms them. 
Legend has it that at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Yu fled to Nan'ao Island, and on the way he encountered a wind and a ship, Junchen sank into the sea, but fortunately a group of dolphins swam to the sea and lifted them to the surface of the sea and landed safely on Nan'ao Island. Therefore, Emperor Song named the dolphin as a "righteous fish" and granted the privilege of "the silk net can't be entangled, and the hook can't be caught". Fishermen on Nanao Island fish at sea and tend to avoid dolphins when they encounter them. Occasionally, when the nets get around them, they tear them apart, and even the other fish and shrimp escape. This is the origin of the saying "black goose and white goose, out of plunder to nothing". For a long time, not fishing dolphins has become a Xi practice among fishermen in South Australia. 2. Stories of life XiIn the old days, Chaoshan women liked to put a "headscarf" around their heads, which was both beautiful and covered the sun, and was called "forehead circumference". The origin of Chaoshan women's "forehead circumference" has a rather interesting story. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a person named Li Shichun somewhere in Chaoshan, who was nearly sixty years old and was a jinshi from the beginning. The following year, he married his wife, Wang. On the night of the cave room, Li Shichun uncovered the bride Wang's headscarf and found a big scar on the bride's forehead, so he asked: "Lady, why do you have this scar on your forehead?"This question made Wang burst into tears for a moment and cried: "More than ten years ago, I called a few helpers to go home for dinner in Dacheng of Tuxiang Palace, and was ......thrown with a stone by a villain for no reasonAfter listening to this, Li Shichun carefully took care of Wang's family, and finally found that the scar on Wang's forehead in front of him was thrown by him more than ten years ago. Ladies and gentlemen, why did Li Shichun throw this Wang?Li Shichun has been smart and studious since he was a child, but his family is very poor, and he relies on the income from his mother sewing clothes for others to maintain the family and provide for Shichun to study. However, Shi Chun was very unlucky, nearly thirty years old, only took the exam, not to mention marrying a daughter-in-law, even three meals were difficult, in order to take care of the old mother at home, he was recommended by someone to be a teacher in a neighboring village. Although the life of a teacher is very hard, Li Shichun is very filial and usually very diligent and thrifty, saving some money to buy some fish and shrimp to go home to honor his mother. Mother and son depend on each other for their lives, and they are at ease. Once, on the way home, Li Shichun was swept to the palace of the king of Yama by a gust of wind. It turned out that the king of Hades had invited him to be a gentleman and teach his son to read and write. Shi Chunxian refused to be a gentleman in Hades, on the grounds that there was no one to take care of his mother at home. But the king of Hades said that he had already made arrangements, saying that he had an uncle who had recently been looking for relatives and had taken his mother to enjoy the blessings. Li Shichun knew that he did have an uncle, who was separated by the war. As a result, there is nothing to say, and there will be a teaching there. Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and it has been several years in the blink of an eye, and the son of the king of Hades is also older, so he is ready to dismiss Li Shichun and let him return to the yang world. Before Li Shichun left, he asked Lord Yama and said, "King, when will I be able to gain fame?"Who is on the same list?Who is the wife?Lord Yan said: "Sir, don't ask when you will get famous, but you and Jieyang Guo Zhiqi are already destined to be on the same list, your lady lives in Jieyang Tuxiang Palace, and when you first saw her, she was asking people to eat." After Li Shichun heard this, he was sent back to the yang world by the Yasha sent by the king of Hades. After Li Shichun returned to the yang world, he decided to go to Jieyang to see what this "Guo Zhiqi and Tu Xianggong's wife" looked like, so he made a special trip to Jieyang, and settled in a village in Jieyang, still living by teaching. Whenever I have spare time, I ask around who is "Guo Zhiqi" and "Tu Xiang Palace". It's really hard work. On this day, he finally found out where Tu Xiang Palace went, and came to Jieyang Tu Xiang Palace early in the morning. It was drizzling and there were few pedestrians on the road. He saw a child who was about to go to school with a schoolbag written on it, so he stepped forward and asked, "You are Guo Zhiqi?"The child replied unequivocally: "Guo Zhiqi is me." Li Shichun couldn't help but feel cold when he heard this, this kid is only more than ten years old, when will I be on the same list with him!Then he touched his head a little distracted and said, "Brother, hurry up." The child tilted his head and said to Li Shichun, "I'm older than you!.""Ladies and gentlemen, this is indeed good, in the future, Guo Zhiqi will be the secretary of the military department, and he will indeed be older than him. How can Li Shichun compare with him?At this moment, for some reason, the soles of the child's feet slipped and jumped. Passers-by on both sides laughed when they saw the child on all fours. The child immediately stood up and read aloud: "The rain is oily, and the road is as slippery as silk."deceived Guo Gong and laughed to death!Li Shichun listened to this "smooth mouth" and understood that he was not a simple child, and he must be a famous eunuch, so he turned around and went straight to Tuxiang Palace. In the rain shelter on the side of Tuxiang Palace, there were several men who worked part-time, and they kept muttering while sheltering from the rain: "It's almost noon, why don't you eat?""The rich lady doesn't know what it's like to be hungry......Li Shichun stood in the rain pavilion for a full hour, and he hoped to see a young and beautiful girl come here to ask someone to "go home for dinner", then he would be satisfied. Just when Li Shichun was thinking about it, he saw Tu Xiang Palace walk out.
The little girl, who was six or seven years old, jumped up and down to the rain pavilion and said to the men, "Everyone has gone home for dinner!""Now Li Shichun's heart is all cold!"This little girl, when will she marry me? He was so angry that he couldn't wait to die on the rain pavilion at once. I couldn't help but secretly curse the Lord of Hades, when this girl grows up, I'm not already "good bones". "Simply, throw this little girl to death with a stone, and let Lord Yama find another one for me!Li Shichun made up his mind, that is, he picked up a stone from the side of the road and threw it at the little girl's head viciously......But as the saying goes: "Everything is destined by the book of the king of Yama" is indeed true, the stone thrown by Li Shichun did not kill the girl, only hit a small hole in her forehead, and suddenly she cried and ran home to ......Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to go back to Li Shichun's newlywed cave room. At this time, he faced his wife, Wang, who had been injured by his own hands more than ten years ago, and he couldn't help but think: he was convinced of the accuracy of King Yama's prophecy, and he also regretted his criminal act of hurting people for no reason. But in the future, relatives and friends asked how to explain the scar on his wife's foreheadCould it be that I can do this?In the end, after searching and shaving his belly, he finally came up with a solution: a special "forehead circumference" was worn on Wang's forehead, which not only covered the scar on Wang's forehead, made her more beautiful, but also protected from wind and cold. Later, the "forehead front circumference" became popular in Chaoyi countryside and became a Xi. Bath cloth, also known as water cloth, is the old Chaoshan working people very favorite clothing, and Gongfu tea, Chaozhou opera and called Chaoshan "traditional three treasures", is a symbol of Chaoshan people's hard-working spirit. The water cloth is thin and soft, has good water absorption, is easy to wring out, is inexpensive, and has many functions. In the old days, every family in Chaoshan had at least.
One or two strips of water cloth. Regarding the origin of water cloth, there is a folk story from Han Yu. 
In ancient times, the transportation in the Chaoshan area was inconvenient, and the timber was transported through the Rongjiang River, the Hanjiang River and other rivers, the timber was tied into a cedar row and drifted, and the propracturing rowman who transported the fir row often went into the water to push the row, for convenience, they simply did not wear clothes and exposed their bodies like the slender man. This made the women who carried water and washed clothes by the river feel embarrassed, thinking that it was a violation of customs, so they sued the Chaozhou government. After Han Yu came to Chaozhou, he felt that it was easy to get sick when he wore wet clothes all day long, and he was very good without clothes, so he came up with a solution that would give him the best of both worlds. In the area of Jieyang, the bride does not easily show up and work within three days after marriage, and is very leisurely, so there is a saying: "The bride is holy to the emperor in three days". During this period, one of the most happy things for the bride to do is to make a "groom's dress" for her husband. Once upon a time, there was a family at the foot of Sangpu Mountain who was holding a wedding banquet, and at this time a *** and a few entourages came. Everyone invited him to the table, but he wanted to tease the bride after drinking. The groom stepped forward and pulled, because of the excessive force, and this *** suffered from epilepsy, he fell to the ground and passed out. The attendants made a feast and sent the bridegroom to court. **The family secretly bribed the county magistrate again, and the beheading was scheduled to start at three o'clock in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. When the news of the murder came, people talked about the unjust death of the bridegroom. This happened to be heard by the patrol sent by the court to observe the people's situation and make secret visits. After the patrol understood the situation, he went straight to the Haiyang County Ya. On the way, he saw a young man in new clothes walking briskly, so he went up to ask what happened. The young man told the inspector that he was the bridegroom who had been sentenced to death, and that last night a young man had volunteered to go to the prison to take his place, and that he had been able to go home, but that the man who had died in his place had died more unjustly, so he had to go back before noon and go to the court to take his place. After hearing this, the inspector changed into his official uniform and went straight to the county office. After arriving at the county office, the inspector summoned the county magistrate and asked him to bring the two young men from the court, and asked the county magistrate to come forward and identify which one was the murderer. The county magistrate was a thief with a weak heart, so he had to kowtow and confess his guilt. The patrol immediately reduced him to the people and confiscated his ** bribes. At this time, the young man who volunteered to die came forward and knelt down to thank her, saying that she was the bride, in order to avenge her husband's unjust death, so she hurriedly made a set of groom clothes, and deceived the jailer in prison by pretending to be **, and replaced her husband, hoping that the adults would avenge the people. The inspector immediately declared the groom innocent on the spot, and gave the confiscated money and silver bribes of the county official to the bride and groom. Later, the couple grew old together for a hundred years, and their children and grandchildren prospered. Later, in order to promote the bride's virtues, the women followed her example and made groom's clothes for their husbands within three days of marriage, so as to seek good fortune and follow the custom. There is a custom in Chaoshan that on the day of the marriage of a man and a woman, a red note with the words "Qilin here" must be pasted on the top of the door where the man enters and exits. How did this custom come to Xi?
Legend has it that during the Tang Dynasty, Luo Cheng's son Luo Tong went on an expedition to the north and fought with Princess Dou Yi. The princess fell in love at first sight on the battle array, but Luo Tong hated him because Princess Dou Yi killed his brother Luo Ren, and Princess Dou Yi was infatuated and tried to seek Cheng to bite the gold match. In order to reconcile the two countries, Cheng Biting Jin vigorously said that he would agree, but Luo Tong was struggling. Later, Tang King Li Shimin came forward to officiate the marriage, and Luo Tong had to reluctantly agree. On the night of the cave room, she was so humiliated that she killed herself. King Tang was furious, and ordered that Luo Tong should not be allowed to remarry, and buried Princess Dou Yi at the foot of Qilin Mountain. Later, Cheng Yanjin couldn't bear to sit back and watch the Luo family, so he pleaded with Tang Taizong and married Shi Danai's stupid girl to him, so that he could have children for the Luo family and inherit the incense. Tang Taizong recited the great merits of the Luo family and agreed. On the day of the wedding, when the sedan chair passed by the grave of Princess Dou Yi at the foot of Qilin Mountain, although Princess Dou Yi was dead, her ghost was still infatuated with Luo Tong. With the help of King Yama, let Princess Dou Yi's ghost hide in Shi Nu's body and restore her appearance before her death. When the sedan chair was carried into Luo's mansion, the Luo family was regretting marrying a **, and it was a bride like Princess Dou Yi who didn't want to welcome the sedan chair. When the people of the Luo family saw it, everyone rejoiced. Cheng Yanjin smiled even more when he saw it. Later, in order to make the daughter-in-law become a beautiful bride like Princess Douyi, people wrote a red note saying "Qilin is here" and pasted it on the top of the door and in front of the sedan chair. In the old days, the marriage Xi of "sleeping on the grass shop on the eve of marriage" was popular in Jieyang, and its origin has a ** story. In the past, Jieyang had a stepmother, who was ruthless and vicious, and was very harsh to the daughter left by her predecessors, and often beat and scolded. When the former wife gave birth to a daughter, not only did she not have a great gift, but on the night of her marriage, she was ordered to sleep on a straw bed by the wall, with her head facing outward and her feet facing inward, like a dead manAnd the next morning, only three bowls of vegetables were cooked for her to eat, such as the number of bowls for the death row prisonersWhen he was about to go out, he took a boiled and shelled egg and put it on the stove, asked him to bow his waist, bend his hands behind his back, and bite the egg into his mouth with his mouth and swallow it. However, this girl later became rich and became prosperous. As a result, many people have imitated this marriage model and followed the custom. This folk tale lashes out at and indicts the cruel and vicious stepmother, reflects the lowly status of remarried children in traditional society, and also places people's good expectations on the prosperity of their children and grandchildren. Today, this Xi has completely disappeared, which is a sign of social progress. The family god is the protector of the family, and it is a special god of Chinese folk beliefs. Each family is different, and the family gods are also different, but not every family has a family god. Chaoshan folk also have family god worship, and some families have family god cards erected in their homes. There is a folk story about the origin of the family god card. 
Ding Lan has not been filial to her mother since she was a child. He was herding sheep in the mountains, and his mother came up to bring him food, and he had to be beaten and scolded every time. Once, when he saw a lamb, he fell on all fours. I thought to myself, the lamb also understands the nurturing grace of the ewe, and I should treat my mother like this, and he is determined to change his ways. On this day, he saw from afar that his mother had brought him food again, so he hurriedly ran forward to pick it up. The mother thought that Ding Lan was going to beat her again, so she jumped into the deep pool by the side of the road in a fit of anger. Ding Lan ran to the edge of the pool and immediately jumped into the water to save him, but he fished for a long time, but he could not find his mother, but only found a large log, thinking that this should be the embodiment of his mother, so he carried the wood home and sacrificed it to atone for his mother. Later, Ding Lan carved the wood into a wooden plaque so that the descendants could sacrifice for a long time. This is the origin of the family god card. In the past, when the Fengxi Dragon Kiln was lit, the fire master always had to light three incense sticks to worship the kiln god. This "kiln god" was originally a child. Legend has it that a long time ago, the emperor wanted to play with goldfish, so he asked the minister to look around for the big black jar, and the minister took people to Chaozhou, which is famous for making ceramics. The prince called Cheng Bo, the most famous kiln master in Fengxi, and asked him to make a big black jar within three months, and make it a heavy reward, and if he can't do it, he will take his head to the court. Cheng Bo said that he had only made bowls and dishes, not big black jars. Master Fu said: "I don't care, I just remember that the three-month period is ninety days." Master Cheng returned home worried, and lived alone in the workshop to try to make a big black jar. Who knew that every time the big black jar was burned, it turned into a big soil cake. The three-month deadline is approaching, and the remaining glimmer of hope is the last kiln. Master Cheng was exhausted, and after lighting the fire, he leaned on the firewood and grass in a daze and took a nap. He dreamed that the fire god came to him and said to him, "Old Cheng, if you want to burn out the big black pot, you have to take a boy and throw it into the chimney at the end of the kiln." "After Master Cheng woke up, he thought about what the god said. However, what about going to ** to find the boy?Even if I found it, I couldn't bear to throw the child into the chimney and burn it to death!Master Cheng asked his apprentice to burn the fire carefully, and ran home by himself, wanting to explain the future to his wife. He told the story in detail, and the master cried so much that the cry woke up the little son on the bed. Shi Niang male ** gave birth to nine, and only survived the ninth son on the bed. The ninth son is nine years old this year, young, smart and clever, and the old couple treats him as a treasure. The younger son heard his parents' words clearly, but he didn't intervene and continued to pretend to be asleep. After Master Cheng finished instructing the future, he looked at his son and went back to the kiln. The master also fell asleep due to excessive sadness, and the youngest son secretly turned over and got out of bed and ran to his father's dragon kiln. He quietly climbed to the top of the chimney and jumped down into the chimney, and the master woke up and couldn't find her son, afraid that her husband's words would be heard by him and do something confused, so he hurried to the kiln, but he couldn't find his son when he ran and broke his leg when he shouted loudly. After the dragon kiln was turned off, Master Cheng opened the kiln door and looked, ah!This time, a big round and big black tank was burned. The black tank is black and red, and it looks very good. He was surprised and delighted, and suddenly he thought of his missing son, and he cried out in agony, and fainted. Before the person woke up, the prince of the house led the minister to arrive. When they saw the big black jar, they were overjoyed, and they ran away and went to Beijing to receive the reward. After the big black jar was carried away, Master Cheng found his son's ashes, and the husband and wife missed their son and cried day and night. One night, the son said to his father in a dream: "Father, mother, don't be sad, the god of fire accepted me as the god of the kiln, and he is in charge of the dragon kiln in the world." Tell your uncles who lit the fire that in the future, as long as you light three sticks of incense, I will come to help them, and bless them with gold and silver. "Since then, when the Fengxi Dragon Kiln is lit, the fire master must always light three incense sticks first, in order to ask for the blessing of the kiln god. In Chao'an Chifeng, all those who burn charcoal must offer three animals in front of the kiln, and there is also a story behind it. Once upon a time, there was a charcoal burning family in Chifeng, and whenever he wanted to install a kiln to burn charcoal, there was always an old man in ragged clothes who came to help him install the kiln, light the fire, burn the kiln, and open the kiln. And when he had done these things, he asked the kiln master for three sacrifices. Because of the guidance of the old man, the net charcoal harvested when the kiln was dismantled was abundant and good. After a long time, the kiln owner saw that the old man did not have many skills, so he did not move his hands and mouth, but he asked for wine and meat, and felt that it was not cost-effective. Once, when the old man helped him install the kiln, he not only did not give him food and drink, but also quit the old man. When the kiln was dismantled to take charcoal, the kiln owner saw that the firewood in the kiln was half-cooked, and there was not much charcoal, even the charcoal was also secondary. The kiln owner regretted it, but went to ** to find the old man!The next time the kiln was installed, I had to put the wine and three animals in advance, and even the dishes, plates, cups and chopsticks were also prepared, which was strange and thoughtful for the old man. When the kiln was dismantled, the whole kiln was full of shiny charcoal. From then on, all those who burned charcoal had to make three sacrifices in front of the kiln, meaning that the old man in ragged clothes would come and give instructions. In the old days, there were many people in Shangdongpu Village, Chaoyang (now Chaonan District), who were engaged in the profession of "carpentry", and often had to worship the "Three Houses". There's a legend in this. During the Ming Dynasty, Cai Dongxing took refuge in the boundary of Shangdongpu Village. One day, he went to a wooded area to gather wood for a fire. Perhaps because he was too tired, he leaned against a tree and took a nap. In the haze, he seemed to have come to the depths of the woods, and found a small wooden house, in front of which a large and stout man was engrossed in making wood. I saw that he would use an axe to split the logs, a planing knife to cut the surface, and a saw to remove the excess wood ......It didn't take long for a beautiful piece of wood to appear in front of Cai Dongxing. Cai Dongxing was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask the big man for advice, and the great sweat was not stingy, so he told the truth about the method of making wood and the use of tools. Cai Dongxing was fascinated by what he heard, and it wasn't until his wife came out to look for him that he woke up suddenly, and in an instant, the cabin and the big man disappeared, and Cai Dongxing was still leaning under the tree, so he knew that it was Nan Ke's dream. Back at the temporary residence, Cai Dongxing told his family what happened, and everyone thought that the old man was blessed by the spirit, so he decided to settle down and set this day as "Axe Lord". Because the Han Dynasty taught Cai Dongxing three main tools for making wood, he called it "Three Sheye". Since then, every year on the seventh day of the fifth month, the whole village carries sacrifices to the old ancestral hall to worship the "Three Houses". The sacrifice consists of three animals and six fruits, and the three animals are three kinds of domestic animals: chickens, ducks, and geeseSix fruits are six kinds of fruits, and there is no limit to what kind of fruits you have, as long as you make up enough of six kinds of fruits. Although this legend may not be credible, the carpenters of Upper Dongpu Village did become the main economic pillar of the village for a long time, supporting the whole village. The villagers of Nanlong, the capital of Jieyang, have a custom of worshiping the cow and lion. Legend has it that the fifth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the cow. On this day, the villagers always want to carry the cow and lion to visit the township, and the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, they will perform a paper shadow play to commemorate the cow and lion. There is a story about the origin of this Xi. Legend has it that in ancient times, there were two families surnamed Chen and Cheng living at the foot of the East Mountain in Jieyang. One year, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the father of a 10-year-old child surnamed Chen asked him to drive his cattle to graze at the foot of the mandarin mountain in the east. It was almost noon, and a tiger jumped down from the mountain and pounced on the child. The big buffalo protected the little master and fought with the tiger. The old cow became more and more courageous, and the tiger was broken by the sleigh and fell to the ground and died. The ox looked back and saw the little master fainting on the ground, so he hooked the little master's belt with his horn and went home. When they returned home, the owner and his neighbors saw the old cow hooking the child with his horns, thinking that the cow had killed the child, and everyone was angry and beat the ox to death with a hammer. At this time, the child woke up and cried and told the story of the old bull fighting the tiger under the oil orange mountain. When my father heard this, he immediately went to the bottom of the orange mountain to take a look, and sure enough, a tiger fell to the ground, and only then did he know that the cow had really killed the tiger, and only then did he know that the cow had been killed by mistake. When you go home, bury it at the foot of this mandarin mountain. It is also believed that this is a lion cow, so a small temple is built here, the old cow god is offered, and three animal sacrifices are prepared to worship, and it is called "the cow and the lion". In the future, the villagers for their own mountain to herd cattle safely, every fifteenth day of the first month to worship here, and in the "Three Mountains King" temple sculpted the statue of the cow lion god to commemorate. Production and life are rich and colorful, and production and life are also hard and hard. People work for survival, and they should deal with all the ups and downs of life, and persevere, and persevere;People survive because they have stories to tell about their production and life. The folk production and life Xi customs stories not only explain the origin of production and life Xi customs, but also become the source of people's life expectations and the spiritual motivation for people to persist in life. Author: Chen Youyi.