The most typical is the legend of Shapotou's origin. Next to the spring of tears at the foot of the Ming Zhongpo, there stands a stone tablet engraved with the following words: According to legend, Shapotou was originally a city full of flowers, developed transportation and merchants, and was called the "Ghost King City". Wu Qi, the last prince, had no choice but to declare war and invade the north to the kingdom of Beisha. He is exhausted, but he is still ambitious, saying that the war will never end. This northern Sand King kingdom is the embodiment of Huanglong, occupying the sand as the king, devouring the vegetation and gaining great strength. How can it stand the clamor of Wuqi? So he led the soldiers of the whole country to fight Wuqi with his good horse and good marksmanship. In the cool battle, the wind was blowing hard, flying sand and stones, and there was no darkness. Wu Qidun was trapped in a muddy world and was terrified. He landed in the south and fled, followed by Sand King. At this time, Sally took advantage of the situation and people borrowed Javert, which was overwhelming and sweeping. After catching up with the bank of the Yellow River, a green dragon jumped into the air to save the people, shook off the shining golden armor, spit out the sky and spit out the water column, and called for rain at the tail, and met Huanglong in the Ghost King City. For a time, the wind shook the mountains, the rain poured down, the river rolled, and the sound was like thunder and roar. All the flowers and trees turned into sharp arrows and stabbed at Huanglong. Although Huanglong was brave, he was shot in the whole body, his physical strength gradually exhausted and his bones were scattered. He fell from the sky and became a pile of yellow sand, pressing on the city of Guiwang. Its blood flowed into the Yellow River, making the river more yellow and turbid. In addition, there is a magic bell in the ghost king city. Three people surround it, and the sound travels hundreds of miles away. Every time there is danger, they call the police themselves. When the two dragons fought, the bell rang loudly, but the residents in the city were in a panic and at a loss. Before they escaped, they had collapsed. The cry for help lasted for several days, and the crying tears leached from the sand, which is the tears that tourists see today. Since then, whenever there is movement on the sand surface, the residents under the sand think it is helpful, shouting in unison, and the bell rings. This is the sound of the bell ringing on the sand slope.
The legend of Shapotou's origin contains many mythical elements, and the legend of "foreigners waving" is more real. Legend has it that at the beginning of last century, a foreign missionary went to the west of China to preach. On the way from Lanzhou, Gansu to Ningxia, due to the isolation of the desert, a group of people went down the Yellow River on sheepskin rafts in Lanzhou. When drifting to Heishan Gorge, not far from Shapotou, the river gap here has increased, and there are many strange stones in the middle of the river. When he saw that the sheepskin raft was going to hit a strange stone in the middle of the river, the foreigner looked bad and jumped from the sheepskin raft to the strange stone. At the same time, the experienced rafter gently touched the strange stone with a bamboo pole, and the sheepskin raft turned a corner and went down the river. The foreign adult grabbed the river stone in one hand and waved for help in the other. All passing sheepskin rafts can't get close to him. Over time, his body waving his arms petrified with the center of the river, which is now the "foreigner beckoning" river center stone not far from Shapotou.