What is the legend of Huixian Bridge in Chongqing?

Huixian Bridge is on Minzu Road in Yuzhong District, right in the center of the square in front of Huixian Building. Huixian Bridge disappeared a long time ago. My uncle came to work in Chongqing in the early 1920s and has never seen this bridge. But the place names in Huixian Bridge existed until the 1980s.

There were not many people in ancient Chongqing, and Daliangzi (now Xinhua Road) was still a forest. A stream flows down from Daliangzi, which is about Zhengyang Street, passes through Dayanggou, reaches Hongyadong and flows into Jialing River. Huixian Bridge is a bridge on this stream, which may be less than 10 meter long. It is called Huixian Bridge because it is said that someone met a fairy here. However, there are many versions of this legend.

There is a saying that an old man opened a cold pub under the bridge, and Taoist priests in Laojundong on the south bank often came to his restaurant to drink. The Taoist invited the old man to play in Laojun Cave. When the old man went, the Taoist invited him to eat tofu pudding and brought out a bowl of tofu pudding, which two people could never finish. In the afternoon, the old man returned to the pub. The old woman was surprised and said, "You haven't been back for many years?" The old man said, "You are crazy. I only played for half a day. " But when I looked in the mirror, I actually grew a long white beard. The old man realized that the Taoist priest he met was a fairy. People passed it on from mouth to mouth, so people called the bridge in front of the pub Huixian Bridge.