The shorter the legend of Daming Lake in Jinan, Shandong Province, the better.

Legend has it that a long time ago, the north of Jinan used to be land, but there were many forks in the river ditch. There is a daming temple in the north of the city. The abbot of the temple is a womanizer. There is a trap mechanism in the temple to cheat and abuse women. Women who burn incense often disappear into temples. Because of his martial arts skills and collusion with the government, people dare not provoke him.

There is a family named Cheng in the southeast mountainous area of Jinan. An old mother lives with a son and a daughter. Although his family is poor, his son Cheng is honest and honest, and his daughter Cheng is handsome and kind, her life is also very beautiful. My old mother suddenly became seriously ill and stayed in bed for more than three months. My brother and sister went to daming temple to make a wish for my mother's recovery. Monks in daming temple took advantage of their closed eyes to pray and threw Yu Lian into the underground chamber in an attempt to destroy her. Yu Lian is not afraid of the monk's bullying, crying and fighting against the monk's bullying. Cheng finished praying, opened his eyes and disappeared. The monk pretended to have left and pushed him out of the temple. When Yu He came home, the old mother heard that Yu Lian had been lost, and she swallowed her breath in a hurry and anger. Yu He went to daming temple to find her sister, but the monk wouldn't let her in, so Yu He went to the yamen to complain. People in the yamen heard that they would sue daming temple, so they pushed him out without asking questions. The feeling be nasty under, Yu He shouted outside daming temple, gradually fainted.

The cries of two brothers and sisters, Yu He and Yu Lian, reached the ears of the Jade Emperor in heaven. The Jade Emperor asked what had happened in the underworld. Clairvoyance bowed his head and replied, "Cheng is a woman in the southeast mountain of Jinan. Because her mother was seriously ill, she was trapped in a secret room by a monk. Her brother Cheng went to daming temple to burn incense and make a wish. Her brother fainted outside the temple, and her sister was forced to lose her reputation and her grievances soared. " The Jade Emperor was furious and immediately ordered the Zhenwu Water God to descend to the lower bound, plunged daming temple into the bottom of the water, and made the evil monk die in the belly of a fish. If Emperor Zhenwu gets the order, he will leave this world with Lei Gong, Dian Mu, Rain Master and Feng Po.

Monks in daming temple are trying their best to persecute Yu Lian in the secret room. Suddenly, the lightning flashed and the deafening thunder cut the evil monk to the ground. At this time, it was dark and stormy, and the whole daming temple fell into the ground. Water gushed out of the ground and most of the northern cities became lakes.

Yu Lian was stunned by the thunder. When she woke up, she was already on the north shore, and she was with her brother. She woke up her brother, and they told the story sadly. She was in great pain when she heard that her mother died of anxiety for her loss. She stood for a long time, then jumped into the lake, where a Bai Lianhua grew. This lake is now Daming Lake, and Yu Lian has become the Bai Lianhua of Daming Lake.