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There
are two human-shaped rocks stand on the hill, one on the top is husband
and the other on the slope, looking like a woman yearning for her husband,
is wife.
Legend goes that they used to be a good couple
engaging in ferriage. Once, the husband was asked to ship goods for a
cunning merchant from Wuchow to Guilin. Provided with limited food by
the merchant, the family set out. Due to the bad weather, the boat was
stranded in a shallow. All possible ways had been tried but in vain, and
with the unexpected delay, all the food was used up. Finally, they climbed
up the hilltop and wished that the passing boats could help them. Without
result, they turned into the rocks in despair.
Accordingly, people call the man-like rock
on the hilltop "Immortal Rock", and the other on the slope in
the figure of a woman with child on back "Yearning-for-Husband's-Return
Rock."
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