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During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "Huguang fills Sichuan", and the population migration movement gradually spread this belief to surrounding areas, including Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Gansu, southwestern Shaanxi and other places, and it was widely believed because it could cut dragons and calm floods. After the passage of history, folk Taoism regards it as an important god to kill monsters. The sixth day of the sixth lunar month is General yangsi's Christmas Day. Taoist honorifics are: Marshal Jiu Shuitian Zero, Long Anyuan, Junshui Country Town, Tongfa Town, Ziyun, and Tongji Tianzun, Wang Lingyuan. ? It is very common for people in the two lakes to believe in General Yang Si, especially around Dongting Lake. When the fishermen set sail, they all worshipped General yangsi. Most Buddhist temples have offerings. Some scholars believe that General Yang Si was the hero of the peasant uprising that swept through seven states and nineteen counties in Jinghu area in the Southern Song Dynasty. Yang Yao is the fourth in the uprising army. After the failure of the Dongting Lake uprising, people set up a shrine to worship him, but in order to escape the prohibition and punishment of the rulers, they only called him General Yang Si or General yangsi.

According to legend, Yang Yao is from Hunan. He was born in an employee's family and studied in a private school. After dropping out of school, he worked as a helper on a merchant ship. In the early years of Southern Song Dynasty, Zhong Xiang started an uprising, and Yang Yao responded and became a famous leader. After Zhong Xiang's death, Yang Yao led his troops to make use of the wide water surface of Dongting Lake to camp in the tributaries of rivers and lakes and continue fighting. At the peak of power, it swept through 7 states 19 counties of Dongting Lake, with a population of 200,000.

The Southern Song Dynasty sent envoys to surrender many times, but Yang Yao sternly refused. The Southern Song Dynasty sent troops to "encirclement and suppression" him seven times, all of which failed. Later, he was transferred back to Yue Fei from the anti-gold front, and finally broke Yang Yao's water army. Yang Yao refused to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and broke through in swimming. He was won by Niu Hao, a famous Yuegujun, and died heroically.

After his death, his deeds spread widely in Dongting Lake area and became the water god worshipped by all. There are many temples in Dongting Lake Basin, which mainly serve yangsi. There are more than 30 general temples in Xiangyin County, Dongting Lake, Hubei Province alone. The Records of Chinese National Customs records: "Every boatman in Dongting Lake area trusts General yangsi the most, and every boat will come to the temple to worship him."

As the birthplace of yangsi belief, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the development of Jianghan water transport and the strengthening of economic ties with other places, as well as the emergence of "Huguang filling Sichuan" immigration tide, yangsi belief was traced back to Jianghan with boatmen and immigrants, and spread to the ports along the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi. By the end of Qing Dynasty, this belief in Hunan had spread to Guangzhou and other places. Yangsi was born in Changsha, Hunan Province in the Song Dynasty. It is said that he became a god at the age of seven. Legend has it that a dragon came to the taming river of Dinggong Bridge in Changsha County to make waves. Yangsi, who lives by the river, was determined to get rid of the dragon, so he went to Yanyuan Cave in Nanyue to learn martial arts from his master. The master taught yangsi a set of magic skills of stealth and tracking, and gave him a red mane horse and a seven-star sword. After many twists and turns, yangsi finally got rid of the dragon. After the evil dragon was removed, yangsi flew away and never came back. People said that he became a god, so they built a temple to worship him.

Every spring, check at Shuikou. If it is a dragon that can make clouds and rain, General yangsi will let it go. If it is a dragon that harms people, cut it into several pieces with a sword. It was because of his meritorious service in cutting dragons that he was made a general, which could save water. Yangsi Temple is built in many places near the water, and there are all kinds of legends and stories about cutting dragons. Yangsi is a native of Jingzi. Danjiang River originated from Heilongkou at the southern foot of Qinling Mountains, and was originally named as the 800-mile Heihe River. The river often swells, the waves are as high as the sky, ships capsize and fishermen are buried in the river. Everyone says this is the evil of the Black Dragon King in the water.

A mother and son live by the Black River. The son's name is Yang Si, and his father and three brothers were swallowed up by the Black Dragon King. This Yang Si grew up on a boat. He can run at the full moon. At the age of five, he went up and down the river, played on the waves and slept in them. Everyone calls him a prodigy. Mother hoped that when he grew up, he could stop the flood and get revenge, so she named him Brock.

Who do you think this Yang Si is? He is the black dragon king, the eldest prince. The black dragon king dotes on mermaids, is dissolute and heartless, and harms all beings. Yang Si tried to persuade him many times, but he was driven out of the Dragon Palace by the Black Dragon King. Yang Si decided to be reborn and fight the Black Dragon King to the end.

When Yang was four or seven years old, one day he dreamed that Prime Minister Carp was crying: "The Black Dragon King is scheduled to raise dumplings at noon on the sixth day of June tomorrow, so that he can watch drowning with mermaids. I risked my life to steal the dragon sword. I hope you can eliminate violence with righteousness. "

When Yang Si woke up, he found a dragon sword on his chest. The next day, he cut the rope around his waist with a dragon sword and a sharp axe, and went straight to the river. At 3: 30 noon, the flood was overwhelming. Yang Si jumped on the wave and cut the dragon sword with a wave of his hand, and the water head dropped by ten feet. He waved again, and the head dropped by ten feet. He struggled to defeat the Xia Bing Xie Jiang. The black dragon king himself went into battle, and his tail swept away, rolling up the fog all over the sky. Yang Si gradually couldn't hold on, the war retreated and the flood advanced step by step. He suddenly heard his mother shout "stop, stop". Yang Si suddenly gained strength. He tried his best to kill the Black Dragon King with his sword and axe. Just when he was happy, he was killed by a mermaid lurking at the bottom of the water, and his blood dyed the Heihe River red.

In memory of Yang Si, people renamed Heihe as Danjiang. Fishermen and boatmen also raised funds to build Lang Ping Palace for Yang Si, and made statues. Both sides were like couplets, "Building a seven-year-old prodigy, Lang Ping Palace in Jiujiang, Weizhen". The general is Yang, a famous anti-gold star in the Southern Song Dynasty. Legends spread in northern Hubei and southern Shaanxi, which is the belief of General yangsi as a regional god. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, it was brought to southern Shaanxi by immigrants from Hubei and Hunan, and it was widely spread, and it merged with the original land god Yang in southern Shaanxi since the Song Dynasty. It not only completed its localization process, but also transformed the worship of Yang, a water conservancy god who should protect local agricultural production, and became a part of regional beliefs. There are many county records in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China to illustrate it. For details, please refer to Biography of Song Shi Yang.

Several legends of yangsi's birth, the "Dongting Theory", have earlier origins and are closer to historical truth, which are highly recognized by experts. The former's theory of "cutting dragons" originated late, which is more in line with fishermen's folk psychological habits. What is more acceptable is that Lang Ping Palace will hold a grand sacrifice and a three-day temple fair on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year, which is the anniversary of yangsi's death. According to the custom of the temple fair on June 6th, yangsi will be transformed into a little green snake, and the locals call it a little baby bug, without exception for one year. On the sixth day of June, the fleet in the middle reaches of the Danjiang River will assemble and line up in the river. Every ship will provide a plate at the bow and burn incense on it. There is always a long bug baby on the plate. This ship became the pioneer of the fleet, leading the fleet to the dock of Lang Ping Palace. Out of the palace, a bronze class came out to meet it, and it went all the way to the harem of Lang Ping Palace. Plates with little green snakes were placed on the sacred table to burn incense. There will be a three-day drama upstairs in front of Lang Ping Palace. Before the three-day play was finished, Changchongwa left by herself. Strange sacrificial customs and legends contain romance and superstition, but on the other hand, they show the boatman's awe of water and water gods. During the temple fair, boatmen, boatmen and pilgrims will go to the temple to offer sacrifices. Those who wish to do so will burn incense in front of the statue of yangsi and present the whole pig and sheep as a token of their gratitude. During the temple fair, people from eight groups in Jingziguan town (commercial organizations in Hubei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces) also actively participated. Lang Ping Palace is full of people and brightly lit.

In memory of Yang Si, people renamed Heihe as Danjiang. Fishermen and boatmen also raised funds to build Lang Ping Palace for Yang Si, and made statues. Both sides were like couplets, "Building a seven-year-old prodigy, Lang Ping Palace in Jiujiang, Weizhen". According to the records of Wuhan folklore, the residents in the wharf along the Yangtze River and Nautilus Island believed in the general, joined the mill club and regarded the stone mill as the idol of General Yang. On June 6th, we held a grinding competition and marched in the city. In order to prevent setting off firecrackers, we dance and set off firecrackers.

Times have changed, and great changes have taken place in the sacrificial customs of yangsi in Nanyang, Shaanxi and even the whole country, and many of them have disappeared. What has not changed is the love and awe of rivers and nature by people who live on water. 1. He lives in seclusion where Surabaya enters Hongze Lake, so yangsi is also called Lingzhou. There is also a place called "Sizhou" in Dinggong Bridge.

2. According to old books, yangsi Temple was built in Jinggang in the 11th year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (186 1), and in the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), an "Bayuantang" was set up to attract the north bank of Liuyang pontoon bridge (now Xihe Street), and yangsi Temple was also built for the ship site.