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Legend of the Fairy Offering Flowers
Fairy Offering Flowers is an image attraction which is located in Tianzi Mountain Scenic Spot. According to an ancient legend, there was a fairy named Peng Xianhua, a beautiful Tujia girl who grew up in her childhood with King Xiang, and she loved King Xiang very much.
King Xiang, a hero of Tujia Ethnic Group in ancient times, once led local
Zhangjiajie people up-rising. When King
Xiang led the his troops to fight against the official government in the distance, the Tujia pretty often took a group of companions to pick beautiful flowers on Tianzi Mountain every day so that she would give the beautiful flowers to King
Xiang when he returned and met together again.
It was very uncomfortable that King Xiang failed in the final battle taken place in Baizhangxia Gorge. Because of serious injuries, King Xiang was saved by more than a dozen soldiers and had to be brought back to Tianzi Mountain to hide.
One day, the pretty heard that King Xiang finally jumped off the cliff and died in Shentang Bay After getting this bad news, she couldn't help falling deep sorrow. Holding a basket of flowers, she stood on the high mountain slope and always looked forward to returning to King Xiang someday.
Years after years passed, the
Tujia girl finally turned into a stone peak. That's what you see now in Tianzi Mountain's magical landscape "Fairy Laying Flowers".