Bat Mountain is a unique sight in Shidu Scenic Area. Tradition has it that in the distant past, there was only one hill in Shidu. One year, the rains were particularly frequent, with several torrential downpours at the beginning of summer flooding and washing away many villages and farmlands in the lower reaches. Late one night, an old dark-skinned man led a family of three generations to Shidu to beg for food. All of them were sallow and emaciated. When the people of Shidu saw the poor family, they all offered them hot meals; some offered rooms for them to live in, and others brought them clothes and bedding. The family of the old dark-skinned man was so moved that they burst into tears.

The night was again marked by thunderstorms and heavy rains that poured down endlessly. A flash flood was soon to break out and the lives and properties of the villagers were seriously threatened. At midnight, the villagers took the family of 20 to 30 people with themselves to the hill in the east of the village. Just as they reached the top of the hill, the flood submerged the village and surrounded the hill, with the water level continuously ascending and the lives of those fleeing at stake. Suddenly, the people noticed that the hill was growing upwards as the water level was rising. Gradually, the hill rose higher and higher above the water, and the people on the hill, without fear, felt like they were floating in mid-air.

After daybreak, the flood gradually receded. The refugees helped take care of the old and young and followed the same route down the mountain. They looked back when they arrived at the edge of the village, and were surprised to find that a black bat had saved them. Because the hill was the bat's head. They entered the village and looked for the family of that old dark-skinned man, only to find them all gone. It turned out that the family had turned into a mountain, standing tall and upright!

(Source: Fangshan District Bureau of Culture and Tourism)