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Tsao Kung Built the
  Reservoir and Fought
  with the Dragon
  Monsters.
 
 
民間故事
Tsao Kung Built the Reservoir and Fought with the Dragon Monsters
 
  In Ching dynasty, a wise magistrate named Tsao Chin came to Feng Shan County. At that time, the entire town was chaotic with bandits attacking residents and rubbing them of valuable properties. What’s worse: people were suffering and having a serious shortage of food due to the famine. In order to solve the problem and helped people go through the adversity, the magistrate knew that he must take immediate action to stabilize the messy economics by building a reservoir to bring farmers good harvests. But things didn’t go as smoothly as he assumed.
 
 
  The ignorant and preserved farmers held a passive and discouraging attitude towards his proposal since they had no idea of what a significant impact the reservoir would have on their life. Besides, they were afraid the construction would cause damage to the landscape, which led to the devastation of the “feng-sui”(風水) . The magistrate didn’t believe in any superstition and insisted on carrying on his plan regardless of the objection of the residents.
 
 
   Along with the construction site of the reservoir, there was a place named Chin-Shan village with two lakes interconnected nearby. It was said that some wicked Dragon Monsters occupied this place a long time ago. In order to protect their habitat, the Dragon Monsters did some witchcraft to undermine the construction. Bewildered and frustrated by the serious delay of the construction, the magistrate sent for a beggar to investigate what’s going on beneath the lake.
 
 
   It turned out that they wouldn’t be able to continue the entire construction until they expelled the Monsters with some trick. They had to bury the newborn baby boy’s hair and the blood from his mother’s womb under the foot of the hill. Following the instruction, the plan worked and the construction proceeded without a hitch. After the establishment of the reservoir, the previously desolate and barren area gradually developed in to a prosperous town. In appreciation as well as memory of the magistrate’s remarkable construction to social welfare, the locals named the reservoir “Tsao Kung Ditch”.
 


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