Fortune telling in front of Mount Tai

Myth and legend of Mount Tai: An eye does not know Mount Tai.

Nowadays, people often say that "blind people don't know Mount Tai". This idiom is used to mean that you don't recognize each other's social status, or underestimate each other's ability because you only look at superficial phenomena. There is a meaningful story about the origin of this sentence!

Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a young couple in front of Mount Tai. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset, trying to create a happy little family. In the second year of marriage, they gave birth to a big fat boy, but the child was less than one year old and a typhoid fever took his young life. Another year passed, and they gave birth to a lovely daughter who died before the full moon. After losing two children in a row, the husband and wife are in a heavy mood and seem to have done something bad all day. Now that my wife is pregnant again, it was a good thing, but both husband and wife are very sad and worried about the fate of this unborn child.

Later, the husband met a foreign fortune teller, looked at his face and told him, "I can't live with Lizi because the names of those two children are similar to their birth dates." If you have another baby, you have to go north when you leave the gate that night. What auspicious name should you give? If you call it that, you will not only save your life, but also succeed. "

Be pregnant in October and give birth once. A few days in the twelfth month, with a cry, my wife gave birth to a chubby son in vain. According to the fortune teller's instructions, that night, the husband went out of the gate to the north and walked all the way through the Doum Palace along the winding path of mountaineering. Except for the knife-like north wind in the cold winter and the cold stones on the mountain, he didn't encounter anything auspicious and had to go home in frustration. When the wife asked her husband what he saw, the teacher replied with tears, "I didn't see anything except the dark Mount Tai in the distance and the cold rocks nearby. I am afraid that the child is hopeless again. " As I spoke, my eyes filled with tears.

The wife was not sad to hear her husband say this, but smiled and said to her husband, "Look at your stupid head. Mount Tai is a famous mountain in the world. This name is not only loud, but also car-scrapping. No matter the poor or the dignitaries, they all come to worship, even the emperor. I think it is the most auspicious. Let's call him Taishan! " The husband listened to his wife and agreed.

It is said that with the resounding name of Mount Tai, children are not only fat and watery, but also have no headache and brain fever, which is very pleasing.

The talking "Taishan" grew up to ten years old and became a clever child. Take a group of little brothers all day to make clay sculptures of cats and dogs with yellow mud or tie birds and animals with straw. Although no one taught him, he did it vividly. This year, the carpenter's grandfather Lu Ban came to Taicheng to work and happened to live in Taishan's home for half a year. Children from poor families have no money to study, so they can only make a living by learning a trade. When Lu Ban left, Taishan's parents offered to let their children learn carpentry from him. Lu Ban felt that the child was too young to refuse, so he had to accept Taishan as an apprentice.

From then on, "Mount Tai" followed Master Lu Ban to travel north and south, leaving his employer to travel west to make furniture, doors and windows for others. "Taishan Mountain" seems to have no intention of learning from the tillers, but it is very interested in Luban's woodcarving. Whenever Lu Ban painted dragons and phoenixes and carved birds on plush chairs and treadmills, he always stared, and then found a piece of wood to carve like a master. Because "Taishan" is young and still a child, Master Lu Ban does not force him to learn, let him do it and let him play. In this way, "Taishan" accompanied its master for nearly a year. When the master saw that he really didn't start carpentry, he was afraid that he wouldn't learn the craft, but he saw it and it was difficult to explain it to his parents. He said to Mount Tai, "Woodworking is a hard job. You are still young. Go home first, and come to me when you grow up and want to learn. " Later, he was sent back to Taian.

"Taishan" returned home and began to dig firewood and medicine every day. One day, he found that the roots dug back were grotesque, some were like magpies climbing plums, some were like monkeys exploring the moon, some were like two dragons playing with pearls, and some were like unicorns giving treasures. With his rich imagination and the carving skills he learned from Master Lu Ban, he pondered over and over again, carefully carved the wood that could only be used as rotten firewood into pieces of handicrafts, and then took them to the vicinity of the memorial archway of Daizongfang for sale by people who have been visiting Mount Tai.

A few years later, in order to build a ladder to climb the city, Lu Ban took his disciples to Mount Tai to choose firewood. When he came to the vicinity of Daizongfang archway, he saw many handicrafts carved with tree roots, which were lifelike and could not help but sigh. Just as Lu Ban was savoring handicrafts, he heard the stall owner say, "Master, don't you know me?"? I am Tarzan. When did you arrive in Taian? Why don't you come to my house? "

At this time, Lu Ban discovered that the young man who set up the stall was none other than the "Mount Tai" who studied with himself a few years ago. I don't want a child who played a few years ago to have this unique skill, and suddenly feel regret and regret. I can't help but blurt out, "These things you carved are wonderful. I should never have sent you home in the first place. I really can't recognize Mount Tai. "

After that, "Taishan" packed up and took the master home. It is said that under the guidance of Lubanhe, "Mount Tai" created many treasures of root carving, and then there was the art of root carving.