Introduction to the stone chessboard: There is a stone carved into the shape of a chessboard on the cliff next to the Liushen Platform. The allusions related to it are famous far and wide. This is the legendary "stone chessboard" on the Liushen Platform. According to legend, there is a village called Xiaopu at the northern foot of Yilu Mountain. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a martial arts master named Lu Linxiao. He was eager for justice and had strong martial arts skills. One year, there was a severe drought within a hundred miles of Yilu Mountain. Villagers from far and near came to fetch water from the two wells under Liushentai. Lu Linxiao came here to fetch water one day and met two immortal old men who were sitting on the stone. While playing chess on the chessboard, he watched with great interest. When the game was over, he was about to fetch water, but then he saw that the pole and barrel were too rotten to use. Then the two immortals tied up the wells with kudzu vines and asked Lu Linxiao to drag the two wells back to Xiaopu. When he returned home, he found that his family had been separated from him for several generations.

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