Conch girl is a figure in ancient legends of China. Legend has it that she is the embodiment of a fairy in the sea. The gentle, virtuous and beautiful conch girl fell in love with a hardworking fisherman boy. Later, it was separated because Poseidon found that conch broke into the world and fell in love with mortals. Finally, the boy's sincerity moved Poseidon, and they finally got married.
The conch girl's shell will stay on the seashore of Unknown Island forever, and the lights on the top of Unknown Island can often be seen at night. If the local fishermen can't tell the direction of the sea in the dark, they shout three times in the air: "conch girl, come out quickly, drive away the darkness and let out the light." There will be light on the top of the nameless island, and the fishing boats in Jinghai Ocean can return to the direction of light. Later, the locals named this nameless island Doumao Island, and some people called it Snail Shell Island.
Records of Conch Girl in Ancient Books
According to the fifth volume of Epilogue to Searching for God written by people in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the young bachelor's name is Xie Duan, and the snail girl also claimed to be "I was in Baishui Sunv, Hanzhong, and the Heaven Emperor mourned for your loneliness, which made me qualified to cook". "Please stay at the end, but you refused. Suddenly it was stormy and you died." Zu Chongzhi's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Southern Dynasties, Jian Yi Zhi in the Song Dynasty and Splendid Flower Valley compiled by Xiaozong people in the Southern Song Dynasty all recorded this fairy tale, and quoted five passages from Poe.
The story of the snail girl described in The Original Story written by Huangfu in the Tang Dynasty is slightly different from the above books. The young bachelor changed from Xie Duan to Wu Kan. The story is abbreviated as: Wu Kan got a white snail and the white snail turned into a beautiful woman to help him cook. If the county butcher wants his wife, he should first ask for frog hair and ghost arms. After that, the snail was beaten, and the wife took a dog-shaped animal and let the animal eat fire and dung fire. "Killing a family is all about fighting for power and profit, but losing the Wu couple."
There is a similar record in A Brief History of Love written by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty, Volume 18, The White Snail Empress. The difference is that Wukan is said to be a native of Yixing, Changzhou. Wukan is no longer a woodcutter who cuts wood for a living, but a county official who is humble to his boss.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Conch Girl.