Farmers in the ancient Huangshan Mountains practiced farming, tea production, herb picking, bamboo farming or hunting, and being "seahorses" (carrying people up the mountain).
In the depths of Houhai, there used to be an old herb farmer with a family of three. The old couple had only one daughter on their knees. Her father's name was Ren Xiangui, and her daughter's name was Ren Xiaojiao.
There is a hunter in Qianhai, who is also a family of three. The old couple raised a son, and the whole family lived by hunting. The old man's surname is Hu, and his name is Yongsheng, and his son is Changshou. It has been twenty years. The Ren Hu family, one in the south of the mountain and the other in the north of the mountain, although they lived together on Huangshan Mountain, they never knew each other. They often took their children to the mountains to collect herbs and hunt. All year round, except for heavy rain and snow sealing the mountain, the sunrise always goes up the mountain and the sunset returns.
When they were hungry, they would eat a few mouthfuls of dry food, and when they were thirsty, they would drink a few mouthfuls of sweet, crystalline spring water. Sometimes when they were far away from the mountains, they would stay in the cave for the night and burn a fire, which would not only keep them warm, but also cook food.
One day, it suddenly rained heavily, and the father, son, and daughter of the Hu Ren family were all looking for a mountain bead to shelter from the rain. Things were also very strange, and the two of them found a cave at the same time. First, the Ren family father and daughter found this cave, and after a while, the Hu family father and son also came in.
After Ren and Hu met, they were like old friends reunited, and they couldn't finish talking. It turned out that it was only a mountain away, but it seemed like the corner of the sea and the world, and they all hated to see each other too late. It rained heavily until dark that day, and the four families surrounded the fire. The two old people talked about everything in the north of the South China Sea. The two young men and women were at their father's side, so fascinated that they did not feel tired when the night was deep.
Ren Xiaojiao and Hu Changshou, a hard-working, brave, beautiful and handsome man and woman, fell in love at first sight, and love arose in the depths of their hearts. The bonfire shone the cave red, illuminating their hearts. The two old men were secretly happy in their hearts, hoping that their pair of villains could form a good relationship and become a family. Although the words were not spoken, it was like "a mute eats soup yuan and has a number in his heart."
Unknowingly, it was already dawn, and the two families, young and old, parted ways and parted ways. Although they were temporarily divided into two families, there was an invisible and intangible line of love between the two young men and women.
In the blink of an eye, three years had passed. This year, spring had arrived, and the young and old Hu Ren family had begun to enter the mountains again.
One morning, Ren Xiaojiao was collecting herbs in the depths of the mountains. Suddenly, she saw a tiger pouncing on her with a bloody mouth. "Help! Help!" Ren Xiaojiao was so scared that her heart was weak and she just shouted, "Come on! The tiger is going to eat people! "The girl's shout spread across thousands of mountains and ravines in an instant. Strange to say, the Hu father and son also came to the mountains to hunt that day. Hu Changshou's heart was on the tip of his ears, and he immediately heard that the cry for help was not someone else, but Ren Xiaojiao in the mountains. This made Xiao Hu so anxious that he picked up a bow and ran towards the shout. When Xiao Hu ran to the vicinity of the shout, he saw that on the opposite peak, Ren Xiaojiao was being chased by a tiger with dark yellow fur and had nowhere to run. He circled an ancient pine.
Seeing that Xiaojiao was about to be devoured by the tiger, Hu Changshou was so anxious that he was helpless. He couldn't shoot arrows and was afraid of hurting Xiaojiao, but how could he get it? He wanted to step onto the opposite peak, but he had no wings. At that moment, he heard a "swoosh!"The sound, and suddenly jumped off the mountain beside Xiao Hu, a wild horse with a horn on its head, and Xiao Hu rode the wild horse's running momentum and flew on the back of the wild horse.
At this time, the wild horse seemed to know Xiao Hu's mood, and it leaped towards the peak opposite. Just as the wild horse leaped in the air, Xiao Hu used all his martial arts to pull up his bow and "whoosh" at the fierce tiger. The tiger dragged a wailing cry and fell into the deep valley.
Xiaojiao suddenly saw the tiger being shot to death, like waking up from a nightmare, and saw Xiaohu holding a bow and arrow and riding a pegasus to his side, pleasantly surprised.
Later, people called the flying wild horse Tianma, and the peak that the Tianma flew out of was also called Tianma Peak. Since then, Tianma has become famous in Huangshan Mountain.