The big water washed the Long Wang Temple （大水冲了龙王庙）, and the family didn’t recognize one family （一家人不认识一家人）. This is a legend, but also a Chinese saying, which means that one does not know his own people, and there is a misunderstanding or conflict.
A long, long time ago, the third prince of the Dong Hai Long Wang (the East Sea dragon King，东海龙王) was punished for a mistake.
In order to make up for his mistake, he intended to do a good deed.
There was a vegetable garden to the east of the Long Wang Temple by the sea, and the owner of the garden was an old man who was very old.
Seeing that the old man was working hard, the Third Prince jumped out of the well in the middle of the night to help him water the vegetables.
The old man was on good terms with the Taoist priest of the Long Wang Temple, so he told the Taoist priest about the strange incident.
The Taoist priest thought there was a demon in the vegetable garden, so he guarded the garden for three consecutive nights.
In the middle of the night, the Taoist priest really saw a demon watering.
On the fourth day, the Taoist priest rushed over with his sword and wounded the third prince.
The third prince was so angry that he lifted the eye of the sea at once, and the water gushed out and flooded The Long Wang Temple.
When the Long Wang heard about it, he brought his shrimp soldiers and crab generals to catch the ‘monster’.
He did not expect to be their own third prince, had to let it go.
After this story spread, everyone joked:‘The big water washed the Long Wang Temple, and the family didn’t recognize one family.’
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