Shaomaigang is located 9 kilometers southwest of Feixi County. Now people only know about the prosperity of this rural market, but few people know the origin and legend of Shaomaigang.

There is a red soil mountain near Shaomaigang, which was called Lion Mountain in ancient times. This kind of mountain with red soil as its body is relatively rare north of the Yangtze River, so it is called Red Mountain.

It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the country, Liu Bowen "assisted the world, made suggestions, and predicted events like a god", and made great contributions to the founding of the Ming Dynasty. This Neo-Confucian scholar, who was born as a Jinshi, is very particular about Feng Shui. One day, when Liu Bowen was inspecting Lion Rock, he found that there were two large piers on the north hill of Lion Rock, one like a gong and the other like a drum. There was a small temple in the south of the pier, surrounded by big trees, which looked like hydrangeas from a distance. Liu Bowen concluded that this was a living place with dragon veins. According to Feng Shui theory: the dead are buried at the living dragon's mouth, and their descendants will be emperors. In order to protect the Zhu family from generation to generation, Liu Bowen thought hard and had no choice. In his night dream, he suddenly heard the words of the mountain: "I am not afraid of digging or picking. I am only afraid of children nailing my waist, and I am even more afraid of fire burning on all sides." The next day, Liu Bowen ordered a young boy (underage boy) to be captured and nailed (buried) into the mountainside. Suddenly, the entire mountain was bleeding profusely, and the soil was dyed red. At the same time, Liu Bowen ordered the fire to burn the veins around Lion Mountain, saying that if the dragon veins were burned to death, the living places could be killed. Later, someone set up a market town in the place where Huo Shao Maigang was located, and named it Shao Maigang, which was passed down from generation to generation. This legend has been included in the "Feixi County Gazetteer" as a place name anecdote.

There are indeed ancient temples in Shaomaigang. According to Jiaqing's "Hefei County Chronicles": "There is the Yingyuan Temple built in the Yuan Dynasty in the south of Shaomaigang (near today's Kangwanwei)." There are several small temples in this area. Incense continued to be used for hundreds of years, and it was not demolished until the mid-1950s. Whether Yingyuan Temple is the legendary small temple? Although the era and geographical location are roughly similar, there is no direct connection. It is only a postscript.