Introduction to Immortal Footprints: According to legend, during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Longji one year. It did not rain for several months. The crops in the fields withered. There were many rice in the fields and only half of them survived. In desperation, the village elder summoned The people discussed and prepared to build the Dragon King Temple and held a ceremony to dig a well to worship the Dragon King. They dug deep along the mouth of the old well and used a long stone tree to draw out the clear spring. A stone dragon was carved at the mouth of the well to show that the divine dragon was making rainfall. In the early morning of the next day after the well was built, when it was just dawn, it rained heavily. After the rain stopped, people found a three-inch deep footprint on the stone beside the well mouth. From that day on, the well was The water well gushes clear springs day and night. People believe that these are the footprints left by the gods and the Dragon King when they came to the Dragon's Back together, so it was named Longquan Pavilion. Nowadays, the Longji Zhuang family still retains the custom of going to the well to burn incense paper and fetch fresh water on the first day of the new year, and to go to the spring to worship the Dragon King on the second day of June.

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