Overview of folk stories

People rely on imagination to know the past and hope for the future. A system composed of myths and legends is painting an imaginary picture. The following are my carefully collected folklore stories. Let me share them with you and enjoy them.

Folk stories 1

Nu Wa made great efforts to mend the sky and fill the earth, so that the disaster subsided and mankind was reborn. The earth is thriving, and spring, summer, autumn and winter pass in turn, and the weather changes with the seasons. The evil birds and beasts in the world have died one after another, and the rest have changed their temperament and become very docile, becoming friends of mankind.

People have plenty of food and clothing and live a carefree and happy life. People put the food they can't eat in the ground instead of in the warehouse, because everyone has food and no one will take it away from others. Newborn babies, people just put them in a big bird's nest in the tree. Children play with birds and sleep in the nest. The tree swayed with the wind, just like a natural cradle. Tiger and leopard don't hurt people, and children can play with their tails at will. Even when people step on a python, it just rolls around and doesn't feel angry at people's behavior at all. It was really the "golden age" of mankind at that time.

Nu Wa is very happy to see that the human life she created is so beautiful. In order to make mankind happier, she also made a musical instrument called Lusheng. This lusheng can make a beautiful sound when it is blown. It is shaped like the tail of a phoenix bird, and there are thirteen tubes inserted in half a gourd. Nu Wa gave the Lusheng to the children. As soon as the children play it, they can't help dancing to the rhythm of the music. With Lusheng, human life has become happier.

The Lusheng made by Nuwa is still playing today. Among many ethnic minorities in southwest China, this lusheng is closely related to the pure love of young men and women. Every spring, when peach blossoms are in full bloom, people will come to the flat land on a cloudless night. Young girls and boys dressed in festive costumes, blowing melodious reeds, forming a circle, singing and dancing. They either dance with each other, or the man plays the lusheng in front and the woman follows with a bell. When they hit it off, they became the closest people.

When Nu Wa saw that human beings lived and worked in peace and contentment, she suddenly felt tired and needed a rest. So, she boarded the thunder car, drove the dragon, let Bai Chi lead the way, and let Longteng follow. The yellowbird surrounded her car, and the gods of heaven and earth surrounded her car and escorted him to heaven.

Nu Wa was very happy at this moment. She recalled what she had done: she created human beings with yellow mud, which brought vitality to the earth and made herself no longer lonely. She went through all kinds of hardships to fill the sky, fill the land, kill the black dragon and collect floods ... In her memory, she rode a cloud in Lapras and unconsciously rose to the top of nine days. I went into Tianmen, went to heaven and reported my work to heaven.

Since then, Nu Wa has lived in heaven! She lives quietly like a hermit. She never takes credit for herself, much less shows off her achievements. She attributed all this to nature, and she felt that she had only done something insignificant for mankind according to the will of nature.

Folk tales 2

Dayu, his name is Wen Ming. Yu's father, surnamed Kun, is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. He is the most famous hero of water control in ancient China.

When Yao was still alive, floods in the Central Plains flooded crops, mountains and people's houses. People were displaced and many people had to leave their homes. The flood has brought endless disasters to people. In this case, Yao was determined to eliminate the flood, so he began to visit people who could control the flood.

One day, he found the ministers around him and said to them, "Ministers, there is a flood now, and the people have suffered a lot. It is necessary to control this flood. Who do you think will bear this great responsibility? "

Therefore, the prince and tribal leaders recommended Gun. Yao always thought Gun was not credible, but there was no more suitable candidate at the moment, so he entrusted the task of water control to Gun temporarily.

Gun water control for nine years, the flood has not subsided, Gun not only can't do anything, but also passively slacking off, taking this arduous task of the country as a joke. Later, Shun began to manage state affairs, and the first problem he encountered was water control. He first removed Gun from his post and exiled him to Yushan, where Gun later died.

Shun also came to consult ministers to see who could cure the water. Ministers recommended Yu. They said, "Although Yu is the son of Gun, he is much more virtuous than his father. This person is humble and courteous, conscientious and has a very simple life. " Shun didn't despise Gun because he was his son, but quickly gave him the responsibility of water control.

Dayu is really a man of virtue. He was not jealous because Shun punished his father, but accepted the task with pleasure. He secretly made up his mind: "My father brought suffering to the people because he didn't cure the water. I will definitely try again. "

But he knows what a great responsibility it is! How dare he slack off? Considering this special task, Shun sent two wise ministers, Boyi and Hou Ji, to assist him in his work.

At that time, Dayu had just been married for four days. His wife Tu Shanshi is a virtuous woman, and she agreed to her husband's stay. Dayu bid farewell to his beloved wife with tears and embarked on a journey.

Yu led a group of assistants, such as Boyi and Hou Ji, to travel across mountains and rivers, set up camp, traveled all over the Central Plains at that time, and left their footprints in remote and inaccessible places. Dayu felt that his father had not completed the great cause of water control, leaving an empty regret, but in his hands, this task must be completed. Along the way, he saw countless people struggling in the flood, and he cried again and again in front of those displaced people. When it comes to water control, people he knows and doesn't know will provide him with the most precious things. Of course, he won't accept these things, but he feels that the people's feelings are too strong, which also doubles his determination and confidence.

Dayu has a ruler in his left hand and a ruler in his right hand. He has to measure everywhere he goes. He learned the lesson of his father's interception method of water control and invented a new dredging method, the main point of which is to dredge the waterway so that the water can flow smoothly eastward into the sea. Every time Dayu found a place that needed to be governed, he went to various tribes to mobilize the masses to build it. Whenever the water conservancy project starts, he works with the people, eats at the construction site, sleeps at the construction site, digs mountains and rocks, and works hard in Daiyue.

He lived a simple life, lived in a short thatched cottage and ate worse than ordinary people. However, he is most willing to spend money on water conservancy projects. Whenever there is a shortage of funds to control floods, he will personally fight for it.

He didn't come into the house three times. Once he passed by his house and heard a child crying. That's Tu Shanshi, his wife who just gave birth to a son. How much he wants to go back and see his wife and children. But when he thought of the arduous task of water control, he had to give a big gift to his cabin at home. With tears in his eyes, he galloped away.

According to the geographical conditions of mountains and rivers, Dayu divided China into Kyushu, namely Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yangzhou, Liangzhou, Yuzhou, Yongzhou and Jingzhou. His method of water control is to treat all the mountains and rivers in China as a whole. He first dealt with the land in Kyushu, which should be dredged and leveled to make a large number of places fertile.

Then he managed the mountain ranges, including Qishan, Jingshan, Lei Shou, Taiyue, Taihang, Wangwo, Changshan, Shizhu, Jieshi, Taihua and Dabie. In order to dredge the waterway and make the water flow down smoothly without blocking the waterway. After the regulation of mountain roads, he began to regulate water veins, and most rivers north of the Yangtze River left traces of his regulation.

He pays attention to wisdom in water control, such as Longmen Mountain in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Longmen Mountain is in the north of Liangshan. Dayu diverted water from the Yellow River to Jishi Mountain in Gansu. When the water was diverted to Liangshan, it was blocked by Longmen Mountain, and it was impossible to pass. Dayu inspected the terrain and thought that this place must be dug, but what about a Longmen Mountain in Nuoda? Dayu chose the most labor-saving place, only opened a hole 80 steps wide, and brought the water over. Because the Longmen is too high, many fish swimming upstream can't swim here. Many fish try their best to jump up, but only a few can jump over. This is what our descendants call "carp yue longmen". It is said that as long as they can jump over the dragon gate, the fish will immediately become dragons and fly in the air.

Dayu spent a total of 13 years on water control. It was under his hand that the roaring river lost its fierceness in the past, and it gently flowed eastward in a tame way. The mountains that were flooded in the past emerged from the water, and the farmland became a rice granary. People can build houses and live a happy and prosperous life.

Later generations remembered his achievements, built temples and temples for him, and respected him as "Yu God". Our whole China is also called "Yu Yu", which means that this is the place where Dayu once ruled.

Folk tales 3

I love Apollo, the eldest son of Zeus. Finally, one day Apollo finally couldn't hold back his love for the goddess laurel and pursued her.

But because Apollo itself is the sun god, his body gathered a lot of heat energy, which made laurel unbearable. So every time Apollo chased laurel, she would hide. In this way, after chasing and hiding, Laurel finally couldn't stand it. She shouted for help.

Her father, Lynn, the river god, couldn't stand his daughter suffering so much, so he opened a big crack in the earth. The laurel tree jumped into a big tree and grew out of the crack.

Since then, this tree has been called laurel.

Apollo didn't know why. He thought that laurel would rather become a tree than be with him. It was not until one day that he suddenly realized that laurel had become a big tree because he was too hot. Apollo vowed to leave a cover for laurel forever. That is what we now know as sunspots, the eternal cover left in the heart of the sun god, the cover he left for laurel.

Folk story 4

At the main entrance of chengde mountain resort, there is a magical red luminous wall. It is said that people stamp their feet in front of the wall and then stick their ears to the wall, and they can hear the sound of "Ji Ji" inside the wall. When it is quiet in the morning and evening, the cry is more vivid and can be heard every ten steps. Why is there a rooster crowing on the red photo wall? The locals say this is the golden rooster of Jiguan Mountain.

Jiguan Mountain, 20 kilometers southeast of the summer resort, looks like a golden rooster from a distance. On the top of the mountain, five thick red pillars lined up, forming the majestic posture of the comb.

Speaking of Jiguan Mountain, it has a magical legend:

More than 200 years ago, there lived an old man at the foot of Jiguan Mountain. Every night, he heard chickens chirping on the back hill, but no chickens appeared during the day.

The old man felt very strange. One night, in the bright moonlight, he groped along with the sound of chickens crowing. Suddenly, in front of a small cave, he found Huang Cancan's old hen, who was leading a group of golden chicks in search of food happily.

The old man was very happy to see these lovely chickens. Instead of disturbing them, he scattered the saved millet in front of the cave for the chickens to eat every day.

Over time, these chickens became friends with the old man.

One day, a guest came and lived in the old man's house. Just then, the court issued an order to the people to go to Jehol to build a palace for the emperor. Before leaving, the old man entrusted the chicken feeding to the guests and told them not to disturb them.

Who knows this guest is an insatiable villain. When he sent rice to chickens, he found that these chickens were not ordinary chickens, but a group of golden roosters. When he saw the profit, he became greedy and completely forgot what the old man said.

One night, he secretly hid near the cave. Just as the hen led the chick out of the hole to find food, it jumped on the old hen. The chicken was surprised and ran back to the cave. Only the hen didn't have time to go back to the cave, so she ran to the red screen wall in front of Li Zheng in Jehol Palace. The old man is building a wall to cover the wall. Suddenly, when he saw the hen flying in panic, he knew that something bad must have happened to it and immediately protected the old hen.

Since then, the golden rooster has been singing in the red photo wall, echoing the sound of old people building walls, carving bricks and smashing stones.

Nowadays, many tourists at home and abroad always want to hear the golden rooster in the photo of the red wall when visiting the summer resort. Just like the echo wall of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, it adds a mysterious color to this detached palace.

As for the cave in Jiguan Mountain, people call it "Golden Chicken Nest". In the valley on the south side and northeast side of Jiguan Mountain, there is a reddish stone pillar more than 60 meters high. They say it's chicken legs. Huge body, bright red comb, two solid and straight chicken legs, the image of golden rooster is vividly displayed in front of people.

Whenever the bright moon shines high, the shadow of Jiguan Mountain will be clearly reflected in the fields of villas 20 miles below the mountain, thus forming a magnificent picture of "thousands of feet with a cockscomb hanging on the moon", giving people a wonderful imagination.

Folk tales 5

Legend has it that there is a Vega and an Altair in the sky. Weaver girl and Petunia are congenial, and have a heart in mind. But it is forbidden for men and women to fall in love and fall in love privately. The weaver girl is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother demoted Petunia to the world and let the weaver girl brocade as punishment.

Weaver's job is to weave layers of beautiful clouds on the loom with a magical silk, and change their colors with the change of time and season. This is the "heavenly clothes". Since Penny's demotion, Weaver Girl often thinks of Penny with a frown in Lacrimosa. She sat by the loom and kept knitting beautiful brocade in order to win the kindness of the queen mother and let Penny return to heaven as soon as possible.

One day, several fairies begged the Queen Mother to visit the Lian Bi Pool on the earth. The queen mother was in a good mood today and promised them. Seeing that the weaver girl was depressed all day, they begged the queen mother to let the weaver girl go with them. The queen mother felt sorry for her granddaughter after being punished, so she let them go and return quickly.

After being demoted, Penny was born in a farmer's house and named Cowherd. Later, when his parents died, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law. My brother and sister-in-law are mean to Cowherd and want to separate from him. They only gave him an old cow and a broken car, and the rest were monopolized by his brother and sister-in-law, and then they separated from Cowherd.

Since then, the cowherd and the old cow have lived together. They cut through thorns in the wasteland, plowing fields and building houses. A year or two later, they built a small home, and they could barely make ends meet. However, except for the old cow who can't talk, there is only one cowherd in the empty house, and life is quite lonely. The cowherd doesn't know that the old cow is the Taurus star in the sky.

On this day, the old cow suddenly spoke. It said to the cowherd, "Cowherd, today you go to Bilianchi, where some fairies are taking a bath. You hide that red fairy costume, and the fairy in the red fairy costume will become your wife. " Cowherd was surprised and happy when he saw that the old cow could talk, so he asked, "Niu Ge, can you really talk?" Is it true what you said? "The old cow nodded, and the cowherd quietly hid in the reeds beside Bilianchi, waiting for the arrival of the fairies.

After a while, the fairies really floated in, took off their light clothes and jumped into the clean stream. The cowherd ran out of the reeds and took the red fairy's clothes. When the fairies saw someone coming, they put on their clothes in a hurry and flew away like birds, leaving only the fairies who could not escape without clothes. She is a weaver girl. When the Weaver Girl saw that her fairy clothes were taken away by a young man, she was ashamed and anxious, but she was helpless. At this moment, Cowherd came over and told her that he could not return her clothes unless she promised to be his wife. When the weaver girl looked intently, she realized that the cowherd was the cow she missed day and night, so she shyly agreed to him. In this way, the Weaver Girl became the wife of the Cowherd.

After marriage, they worked hard and loved each other, and they lived a very happy life. Soon, they gave birth to a son and a daughter, very cute. Cowherd and Weaver Girl thought they could live together for life and grow old together.

However, when the Queen Mother learned of this incident, she flew into a rage and immediately sent a fairy to catch the Weaver Girl, and returned to heaven to plead guilty.

On this day, the weaver girl was cooking, and the cowherd who worked in the fields hurried back. His eyes were red and swollen, and he told Weaver, "Niu Ge is dead. Before he died, he asked me to peel off his cowhide and put it away. One day, I can wear it and fly to the sky. " Hearing this, the Weaver Girl wondered. She understands that the old cow is the golden bull in the sky, and she was banished to heaven only because she said a few fair words for the banished cow in the morning. How could it suddenly die? Weaver told the cowherd to peel off the cowhide and bury the old cow well.

At this time, the sky is stormy, and the heavenly soldiers will fall from the sky, so it is hard to say that they will escort the Weaver Girl to the sky.

Flying, flying, Weaver Girl heard the voice of Cowherd: "Weaver Girl, wait for me!" " "Looking back, the Weaver Girl saw the Cowherd coming with a pair of baskets and two children in cowhide. Slowly, the distance between them is getting closer and closer, and the Weaver Girl can also see the lovely faces of the children. The children all shouted "Mom" with open arms. Seeing, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are about to meet. But at this moment, the queen mother came in with Xiangyun. She took off the golden hairpin on her head and rowed among them. At the moment, a Tianhe wave is rolling between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, which cannot be crossed.

The Weaver Girl looked at the Cowherd and his children across the Tianhe River and cried herself hoarse. Cowherd and children also cried their eyes out. Their cries and the cries of their children's "mothers" are so heart-wrenching and tearful that even the fairies and immortals watching from the sidelines feel sad and unbearable. When the Queen Mother saw this scene, she was slightly moved by the loyal love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and moved with compassion. She agreed to let the cowherd and the children stay in the sky and ordered the magpie to send a message every seven days for them to meet. Unexpectedly, the magpie said something wrong, saying that they met once a year on July 7th, so the Queen Mother punished the magpie for matchmaking.

Since then, Cowherd and his children have lived in the sky, separated from Weaver Girl by a Tianhe River. Among the stars in the autumn night sky, we can still see two big stars on both sides of the Milky Way. They are Vega and Altair. There are two cowherd stars, a son and a daughter of the cowherd and the weaver girl.

On July 7th, when Cowherd and Weaver Girl met, countless magpies flew to bridge the gap for them. On the Magpie Bridge, Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet again! Weaver Girl and Cowherd are affectionate, hugging their children, and have countless words to say and endless feelings to pour out!

Legend has it that on July 7th every year, if people listen quietly in the vines under the grape trellis, they can vaguely hear Yue Xian playing, and the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd are talking cordially. Really: I met her a long time ago, but it's been longer since we broke up! Every day, they look forward to the reunion on July 7 of the following year.

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