从前,南京水西门外多为农田和水塘,这里农民种植的“水八仙”很有名气。所谓水八鲜即老南京对水田中生长的茭白、莲藕、水芹、芡实(鸡头米)、慈姑、荸荠、莼菜、菱八种农产品的美称。每年夏秋之际,农民们都要挑担徒步将这些水八鲜送往城里卖,途中总喜欢在一块有树阴的地方换肩歇脚。后来,一位大士和尚耳闻水八仙盛产于此地,便云游而来,他见到挑担 Once upon a time, most of the water outside Xiushimen in Nanjing was farmland and reservoirs, and the “Water Eight Immortals” planted by peasants here was famous. The so-called water eight fresh Nanjing that is the growth of rice paddies in paddy fields, lotus root, cress, Gorgon (chicken head rice), arrowhead, water chestnuts, water spinach, Ling eight kinds of agricultural products reputation. Every summer and autumn, peasants have to take the hikes and send these eight fresh water to the city for sale. They always like to rest shoulder-off in the shade of a tree. Later, a monk who heard about the water immortality in this place, they wander, he saw the burden