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Battle of wei stateDuring the battle state zhanguo era

more than 2000 years ago there was a person --

-(ximenbao)who was sent toyexian as county magistrate

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He came to yexisan, found that there is a large

area of lands which is not being usedby any one for farming and whole land remain

barren. He looked for few old agedpersons and asked them what is the problem

with common people ? Old person toldhim : Every year river god is requiredto be get married quqin this matter haslead a trap kenghai for common man.

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Ximenbao heard and then enquiredwhat isthis matter of river god is married.

Previously there was a Zhanghe river inYexian, often brought flood. A witch wupo said, river god has got furious if every year river god is marriedwith abeautiful wife xifu then there will not beflood. Then the junior officers of thecounty found a pretext forgetting the river

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god married and by every possible means

compellingbizhe common manto open the purse. The money whichthey receive every year was few millions butthe amount/money used in themarriage of river god is actually just

2 to 3 lacs. The left

amount

goes into their and witchs pocket.

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Every year while giving a wife to river

god witch used to see from house to

house aijia aihu , which poorfamily has beautiful girl, then said that

girl must be made the wife of river godfollowing which send betrothal gift pinli.

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On reaching the day of marriage the

witch dress-upthe girl to theappearance of bride,let/asked her to sit on a new bed and

then the bed is placed in the river.

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Initially/while starting the bed floatspiao still on the river, after floating for few

tens of metres it slowly sinks into the

water chen. One year afteranother, it was not known how many girls

of poor family were horribly killed inthis way. Thus the poor family having girlescaped one after another. In this way

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population gradually decreased and also

no one is there to farm the land.Ximenbao heard and said : further while giving wife to , it is expected everybody will go river side for seeing off new girl, at the same

time also tell me a, I will also go to see of the new girl . Old persons agreed.

On arrival of that day of giving wife to river god, ximenbao came by the side of river . Three junior officers and witch have come

earlier, common people were also there, about 2 to 3 thousands of people were around the river side. Age of that witch was

already more than 70 years, few scores of junior witches who have come with her were wearing silk fabric chouzi clothes and were

standing behind her.