According to legend, one hundred and ninety years ago the fierce and indignant demon-quelling Kuan Kung, with the aid of the heaven-shaking fireworks, cleansed Yen-shui of a twenty-year plague that had brought death to countless people.
相傳一百九十年前，威武剛猛的「伏魔大帝」關公，就是在震天鞭炮助威下，成功地鎮伏了橫行鹽水鎮廿多年、死人無數的瘟疫。