Seventy-two months in Yimeng Mountain is a magical folk story in Linyi. The hometown of the Dragon King is Wolong Cave in Tongjing, Yinan.

Seventy-two Yimeng Mountain is a landscape. In the mountainous Yimeng Mountain area of Shandong Province, some strange peaks can be seen everywhere: their round tops are flat and open, the cliffs around the peaks are steep, and the slope below the cliffs changes from steep to gentle. This kind of mountain with a flat top hat is called Gu by the local people. It belongs to "Table Mountain" or "Fangshan Mountain" or "Fangshan Mountain" in geomorphology.

There are more than 72 gullies in Yimeng Mountain, and there are thousands of gullies large and small. As for the widely circulated "seventy-two visits to Yimeng", it is also a general concept.

Linyi also has a magical folklore about these 72-year-old people.

Legend has it that the border of Yimeng Mountain was not land long ago, but the former site of the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, which is a piece of Wang Yang sea.

At that time, the Dragon Palace was built tall and mighty. There are 72 supporting pillars in the palace, all of which are grounded. The pillars are so thick that dozens of people can't hold each pillar.

There are many descendants of the Dragon King. They play with these 72 thick Tianzhu as toys every day, and climb into the Heavenly Palace along these pillars every three days.

One day, in the Heavenly Palace, the nine most precious daughters of the Jade Emperor were enjoying flowers in the imperial garden. My little daughter took a fancy to a beautiful fairy and wanted to go and pick flowers. As a result, when she walked to the flowers, she accidentally stepped on a soft and slippery thing. While wondering, the trampled little white dragon screamed at the jade emperor's little daughter, and she was scared to death on the spot.

The Queen Mother turned blue with anger on the spot and immediately told the heavenly soldiers to arrest the little white dragon and behead it.

Heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, tie the little white dragon with fairy rope. Xiaobailong was used to bullying since he was a child. Now when he saw someone dare to tie him up, he immediately held his head high and shouted, "Do you want to live?" I am Little White Dragon, the favorite third prince of the Dragon King. Let me go, or I'll eat you all when my father comes. "

Hearing this, the queen mother was really not afraid of death. "You are a bold beast. I can sneak into heaven and kill you, regardless of the rules of heaven. Now you scare my daughter, I will not only kill you, but also kill your father! "

Little white dragon didn't know it was the queen mother, and kept calling there, "I can go wherever I want." You are not only unreasonable, but also want to take care of me. " Your daughter is very timid. Scared to death is none of my business. Hurry up and let me go back. My dad should tell me it's going to rain soon. "

The queen mother was almost angry with Xiao Bailong, pulling her face and saying to the heavenly generals, "Take him down quickly, and don't talk nonsense with him in the future, and then deal with him after I finish beating the Jade Emperor."

The heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals took the little white dragon away. The little white dragon tried to show off several times, but the fairy rope tied him tightly and had to be taken away honestly.

After Xiaobailong was taken away, the Queen Mother was distressed by her daughter and quickly went to a doctor to rescue her little daughter. The youngest daughter was very worried after waking up. She looked around and asked the queen mother, "Where was the white snake just now?" The queen mother was very happy to see her little daughter awake. "Daughter, that's a little white dragon, not a snake, but the third son of the old dragon king on the ground. Don't be afraid. I'll tell your father to kill the little white dragon later. Then let the old dragon king move, cut all his Tianzhu and let him come to heaven again. "

After appeasing the little girl, the queen mother went to the jade emperor and told him that the little girl was scared to death by the little white dragon in the imperial garden. The jade emperor heard that the little white dragon was so rampant that he was going to kill it on the spot.

Taibai Venus and the immortals were frightened, so they quickly informed the old dragon king to come, and then knelt down to plead for Xiaobailong. The old dragon king who got the news also knelt on the hall of Lingxiao and begged.

When the Jade Emperor saw that he was speaking for the little white dragon, thinking that his little daughter was not seriously ill now, he pretended to be generous and said to everyone, "The little white dragon is young and ignorant. The old dragon king has to take it home and discipline it strictly, and he will have to pray for rain for the people all over the world in the future to avoid his death. However, the Dragon Palace will move, and he can only live in the deep palace below the East China Sea in the future, and he can't go out to sea without orders."

Then he ordered that seventy-two pillars would be cut down in seventy days. After logging, the hawthorn under Tian Tongzhu became the seventy-two ridges of Yimeng Mountain today.

The old dragon king didn't dare to live here, so he moved them all to the deep palace in the East China Sea. It is said that the former site of the Dragon Palace where the Old Dragon King once lived is located near Xiwolong Cave in Tongjing Town, yinan county.