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民間故事
Tsao
Kung Built the Reservoir and Fought with the Dragon Monsters |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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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