bathole and the monk

[common tomb] [Mr.Six] [fossil hall] [bathole]
[big drung tree] [8 orchid bamboo] 
[tangled plants] [bathole and the monk]

title: common tomb

artist: Wu and Lin ( team members )

There's a legend about the bathole in Chee Shan Rock that goes like this:

Once upon a time there lived a monk who was really good at Kung Fu, and he lived alone in a cave with five big bats.  His most famous Kung Fu move was the "coin dart".  He could throw coins at anything within fifty steps of him and hit the mark. 

He often used trees as a practice target and his coins would be deep in the trees about four inches deep.  When he threw coins at animals and humans they dies instantly, but he seldom used it on humans. 

Also, he knew about twenty kinds of voodoo and is an expert at Feng Shui, but few people know him.

About a hundred years ago, a guy named Lee often went to this area to play, and one day he heard someone moaning in the bathole.  It was the monk.  Lee cured the monk with Lee's father's medicine and they became good friends after that.

In appreciation, the monk taught him the coin dart Kung Fu and some voodoos but made Lee promise not to use it to hurt others; Lee agreed, the monk taught him what he wanted to learn, and Lee practiced them well.

One day, Lee went to the market to get groceries, and saw five or six gangsters trying to take advantage of an old farmer.  He tried to talk them out of it, but it didn't work.  So he picked up some pebbles on the ground and threw them at the gangsters.  It worked wonderfully and people who watched cheered him on.  Lee was quite happy with the result but wondered about the effects of his other voodoo skills.

One day, Lee was bored at home and so started to practice his voodoo drawings.  Unfortunately, his Dad came home that time, and by accident the voodoo spell was cast on him.  His father became extremely thirsty and couldn't breath.  After a while, he died. 

When the monk found out about this, he was furious but knew nothing more could be done, so he used his knowledge of Feng Shui and found a great burial for his father. 

The next morning, Lee accompanied the monk to find the great land to bury his father.  And even though the monk found a great land called the great eagle land, Lee had to go to the restroom and as soon as he urinated on the ground, a giant eagle flew away.  The monk sighed and said your fortune is not good enough to use this land.  

So they buried his father in the eagleless eagle land, and Lee's future generations didn't have extraordinary fortunes.

After the memorial service, Lee went to the bathole to visit the monk again, but he was gone.  Only five or six giant bats live there, and the rest is empty and history.