Folktales
During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, in the Yuntai Temple of Huashan, there was a maid named Jade Girl, who was forty-five years old at that time.
She was seriously ill, ulcering and stinking all over.
The people in the audience were very afraid of being infected by her, so they sent her to a secluded place in the mountains.
The jade girl was suffering from severe pain there, moaning incessantly, and suddenly a Taoist priest passed by and threw three or four grasses from a distance.
The grass looked like vegetables, he told the maiden:
You barely eat these grasses, and soon you'll be **.
The Jade Maiden followed his instructions and ate it.
Since then, her condition has gradually improved, and she returned to her original state in less than ten days.
At first, she forgot to eat and just traveled freely, but she was uneasy in her heart, lost interest in the world, and did not want to go to Yuntai again.
The people in the audience thought she was long gone, and they didn't visit her again.
The jade girl flies around in the mountains, drinks spring water, and eats wood.
Then she lived under the rock, and one day the Taoist priest came again and said to her:
Your illness has been healed, and you don't need to stay on earth.
There is a stone pond two miles west of Yuntai Temple, you go there every day in Chenshi, put a small stone, there will be a book of water mushroom naturally appeared, you can pick and eat, long-term consumption will be beneficial to you. ”
The girl did what he taught, and from then on her body became light and strong, and she flew freely.
Even if the people in the audience often meet her, they don't know that she is the jade girl.
After a few decades, her hair grew to six or seven feet, her body was covered with green hair, and her face was like a white flower.
When the people of the mountains often saw her, they knelt down and bowed.
During the Great Calendar, there was a rude scholar Ban Xingda who came to Yuntai Guan to study, and he slandered the study of Taoism.
Because I often see the jade girl going to the stone pond to throw stones and collect zhi, I am familiar with her actions and know her schedule.
One day, he arrived at the stone pond ahead of schedule, and just after seeing the jade girl throwing small stones, Shui Zhi really appeared, and Xingda took some.
The Jade Maiden, on the other hand, is far away on the rocks or perched on the top of the trees, and once Xingda has taken it, she calls and sighs and returns.
The next day, Xingda did the same again.
After more than ten days, the jade girl arrived slightly before Xingda, and the distance between the two was very close.
Suddenly, Xingda grabbed her by the hair, and the Jade Girl couldn't escape, so he twisted her body hard and forced the Jade Girl.
The Jade Maiden begged for help and vowed to die, but her physical strength was exhausted and she was eventually insulted by Xingda.
Later, Xingda locked her in a small room.
The next day, when Xingda went to the small room, he saw a delighted old woman.
Her appearance was unusually haggard, she had difficulty moving, and she even had some visual and visual impairments.
Xingda was very surprised, and immediately summoned the people in the view, inquired about the incident in detail, and asked the jade girl together, and the jade girl recalled the beginning and end one by one.
Some of the people in the audience have indeed heard her story, and it is estimated that it has been more than 100 years old.
Everyone was saddened by what had happened to her, so they decided to let her go, but less than a month later, she died.