Chapter 2 Animal and Botanical Park (1) Stone Beast Stories

Commonly known as Bingtou Garden, the Zoological and Botanical Garden is located opposite the Governor’s Mansion. The older generation of Hong Kong people used to call the Governor Bingtou, which means the leader of the army, and the name of Bingtou Garden came from this. Bingtou Garden is the first large-scale park since the opening of Hong Kong. It is most familiar with the four stone beasts at the main entrance. There have been rumors of murder here, and the relevant authorities have even chiseled the stone beads in the mouths of the stone beasts. !Bingtou Garden covers a vast area. As the land in the middle of the mountain became more and more expensive, the authorities did not consider allocating it for auction, because this piece of land is closely related to the geomantic omen of the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion. The establishment of the park also originated from the assassination of the Hong Kong Governor. .

In 1912, the 15th Governor of Hong Kong, May (i.e., May Governor, and Mei Road in Mid-Levels was named in honor of him) arrived in Hong Kong to assume his new post. When he landed at Bugong Wharf, he was assassinated. Injuried.After May Governor took office, he was also constrained everywhere, so someone proposed to re-survey the Fengshui layout (it is rumored that the British chose Hong Kong as a colony, and they also followed the suggestion of a Fengshui master, and the layout of the Governor's Mansion was also determined by a Fengshui master) , It was discovered that the dragon vein extending from Victoria Peak was blocked by buildings on the hillside in front of the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion, and the dragon vein was too fast, rushing into the Gang Qi, which caused the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion to be damaged.

The way to rescue is to clear the buildings on the hillside, plant trees to absorb the qi, and set up a pool for the qi to vent. In this way, a Bingtou garden is created.After the garden was completed, the Feng Shui master oriented the gate of the park again, but found that there was an evil spirit rising from the garden road, so he moved the main entrance to the main garden road, and added a stone unicorn as a deterrent.The layout is completed, the power of the Governor of Hong Kong has stabilized, but at the end of the Fourth Luck of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty (1924-1943), the evil star enters the palace, and there is a double-five game (the god of plague and the sickness charm) ), Goodbye to the calamity of soldiers and fire on the same journey in 1997, so plagues, wind disasters, and fires occurred one after another, and finally Hong Kong fell!

When the evil star shines, every time there is a bad omen, Bingtou Garden, a beautiful resort full of flowers, suddenly spreads countless strange stories: Stone beast drinking water In the 1930s, Bingtou Garden was a resting place frequented by high-end Chinese and foreigners, and the management was very strict. The park was closed after sunset, and the administrators would patrol on time to prevent homeless people from hiding or thieves Steal birds, animals and flowers.One night, the caretaker visited the pool and saw four animals squatting by the pool drinking water. The caretaker thought they were wild dogs from outside and dared not approach them for fear of being bitten.He picked up a stone and threw it at the pool, splashing water, thinking that it would scare the dog away.The four animals were startled, and fled towards the gate, with strange postures. Under the dim light of gas lamps (the early street lamps were fueled by gas, there are only four remaining in Duddell Street, Central, along with the stone steps. Listed as historical relics), the administrator could not tell the names of these four animals, but they were familiar with their appearance, thinking that they were precious animals raised in the park and escaped from their cages.That is to say, while calling for his colleagues to come to help, he chased after him, but he didn't dare to get too close, lest the four unknown monsters would bite him back. When he chased to the stairs, the four monsters had disappeared.

Colleagues who came to help after hearing the sound, some of them were still holding ropes for catching animals, saw the administrator trembling at the gate, staring at the stone beasts that kept retreating, their jaws trembling, and it was hard to hear such a sentence clearly say: Stone beasts drinking water Everyone looked at the stone beasts, and saw that the stone beasts were stained with water, and their mouths were even wet, and some were still dripping, as if they had just finished drinking water! The anecdote about the stone beast drinking water was not widely spread because there was a more sensational anecdote at that time: a white horse became a spirit.

On the coast of the Central District, there was the neighing of horses at night, and a white horse was seen galloping down the street with thunderous hooves, which frightened many citizens. A rope was tied around the horse's neck, and the white horse galloped at full speed, and the watchman couldn't pull it back. The white horse walked towards the Great Hall (the old city hall was built on the site of today's HSBC Bank), and disappeared instantly. After pursuing it, I saw the white horse on the left side of the embossed royal emblem in the great hall, with the rope around the horse's neck.

So the rumors of the white horse becoming a spirit spread. In order to calm people's minds, the relevant personnel invited Taoist priests to seal the white horse's eyes and put a chain on it. It has become the emblem of Hong Kong today. The stone beasts drinking water in Bingtou Garden and the white horse becoming a spirit in the Great Hall happened almost at the same time, which is a bad omen for bad Fengshui. Evil spirits gushed out from the place where the dragon veins gathered, causing countless strange things.The Bingtou garden was invaded by evil spirits, and every night there were bursts of shrill ghost chirping. On the second day after the ghosts screamed at night, everyone died in the garden!

On this day, the one who died under the stone beast was actually a nun, a nun who died for love!This is really intriguing! In the 1930s, Shitangzui was the most famous place for flowers. The so-called wind and moon in the west of Tangtang are boundless in spring.A few years ago, there was a movie called Qun Ying Luan Wu, which described the scene in great detail.However, some second-generation ancestors thought that the fireworks girls were too vulgar, so they went to the Buddhist monastery to find spring, and whoring prostitutes went to the Shigu's nunnery!At that time, there were several nunneries in Staunton Street, and they were doing the business of setting up the nunnery.The host bought some ten-year-old girls, nursed them to fifteen or six years old, and opened a parlor for her. The scene was even more lively than that of Tangxi famous prostitutes.

It is said that there is a little nun, Qinggu, who has bright eyes and white teeth, and a slim figure, and is the host's cash cow.After this Qinggu was opened by a Shaodong who traveled north and south, the two fell in love. Shaodong wanted to accept her as a concubine, and he first asked Qinggu to return to the vulgar.One day, the two went to Bingtou Garden to play, and a strange wind blew Qinggu's wig up, exposing the top of her head with only short hair. It was obvious at a glance that she was a nun's head, but she was wearing ordinary dresses. Tourists ridiculed, and even Shaodong couldn't help laughing wildly. Qinggu thought it was an insult, unbearable, so she covered her face and wept bitterly. She cried as she walked, and she didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. She bumped her head into the base of the stone beast, bleeding flow!

After Qinggu's death, the stone beasts began to wreak havoc. There was a couple who lingered in the park until dusk. When they left, they passed the gate and a stone bead flew towards the man.After the stone ball hurt someone, it flew back into the mouth of the stone beast, leaving bloodstains.The woman panicked and yelled loudly, alarming the police officers standing guard in front of the Governor's Mansion, and told them everything, but the incident was too bizarre for the police to investigate. Afterwards, one after another, reports of people being shot were received, all of them being the man of the couple, and some people suspected that it was Qing Gu's ghost who was causing the trouble.However, the police believed that the culprits were hiding, hurting people secretly, and intending to make money.Then they sent more police officers to patrol, and even dispatched male and female police officers to pretend to be lovers to release snakes. Unexpectedly, the male police officer was killed because of this!

A stone bead flew out and hit the back of the policeman's head, killing the policeman instantly.The policewoman screamed for help, and the ambushing police officers rushed out to search, but of course they couldn't find the criminals, only the stone beads in the mouth of a stone beast were covered with blood, so we had to believe that the stone beast spit out beads to hurt people. After some commotion, the Taoist priests selected a day to crush the stone beads in the mouth of the stone beast and wipe off the cinnabar on the eyes. Since then, no injuries have occurred. However, the ghost night cry in Bingtou Garden is getting more and more fierce, and the situation in Hong Kong is becoming more and more critical.Soon Hong Kong fell, and countless people died! However, in the history of the Anti-Japanese War, these stone beasts played an important role. In order to prevent the Japanese army from enjoying Hong Kong's excellent feng shui and making the Japanese army happy for a long time, several feng shui masters formed a group with the anti-Japanese martyrs to cut off the dragon's veins in Hong Kong and arouse the evil spirit to destroy Hong Kong's feng shui.On the eve of the Japanese occupation, the pool in Bingtou Garden was blown up and the water was drained.Then put a talisman on the base of the stone beast, and release the evil spirit absorbed earlier, rush to the Governor's Mansion, rain down on the HSBC Bank, and then shoot across the sea to the Peninsula Hotel.These three places were originally the key points of Hong Kong, but they will be difficult to enjoy safety if they are covered by the gangster. After the deployment was completed, Hong Kong governor Yang Muqi surrendered to the Japanese army. Lieutenant General Sakai Takashi who was stationed in the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion at that time moved back to the Peninsula Hotel after staying for only a few days for some reason, where he set up the military government office. Soon, Sakai Takashi was arrested. He was demoted and transferred, and died in the Battle of Burma.Rensuke Isoya, who took over, moved the office to HSBC and proposed to use military bills instead of Hong Kong banknotes, causing Hong Kong's financial chaos. Later, Isoya Rensuke was dismissed from his post and later died in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.Tanaka Jiuyi, who took office, moved back to the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion. At this time, reports of the Japanese army's defeat were frequent. Soon, Tanaka Jiuyi received an order to surrender unconditionally. The leaders of the Japanese army stationed in Hong Kong all ended in dismal, and the offices they set up were located exactly where the evil spirits of the evil gangsters were located, and the theory of Feng Shui can be said to be fulfilled one by one.After the rebirth, the surviving mages and righteous men took back the talismans and burned them to subdue the evil spirit of the stone beast, and then cast a spell to connect the dragon's veins, bringing Hong Kong back to life. However, due to project delays, the fountains in Bingtou Gardens had to be repaired in the early 1960s. Before that, Hong Kong was still in turmoil for a period of time, but it was all accidents.And when it came to the Universiade of the Yuan Dynasty (1964-2003), when the stars were changing and the auspicious stars were shining, it was the time when Hong Kong was flourishing. Some people may be surprised that HSBC and Bank of China have guardian beasts to deter the aura gushing from the Taiping Mountain, why the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion does not have guardian beasts?It turns out that its guardian beast is the stone beast at the main entrance of Bingtou Garden. It not only guards the Governor's Mansion, but also guards the dragon veins of Hong Kong. It can be said to be the guardian beast of Hong Kong!