What are the famous fairy tales in ancient China?

There are: Nu Wa made man, Kuafu Day by Day, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Jingwei Reclamation, Pangu Tiankai, Goddess of mending Heaven, etc.

1, Nu Wa made man

Nu Wa, one of the ancient myths and legends in China, can create at least 70 things every day, so she is called the mother of the earth. She is an ancient goddess.

According to legend, Nu Wa created human beings by imitating her own soil, and created and constructed human society. It also established a marriage system for human beings, enabling young men and women to marry each other and reproduce, so it was also known as the ancient god of love and marriage.

Nu Wa is the mother of the Chinese nation, and the Chinese nation's humanities began first and blessed the true god of the country. She created life with kindness and bravely took care of creatures suffering from natural disasters. She is the creator and mother god, and has been widely worshipped for a long time.

2, kuafu day by day

Legend has it that Kuafu is the leader of a Kuafu family on Mount Emei. He is a big man with infinite strength. In order to find out the influence of the sun on crops all year round, people can make rational use of the sun and get familiar with the laws of nature.

Kuafu took a peach stick, measured the sun shadow from east to west to determine the four seasons, and then marked the water level of the highest flood from the rising traces of the Yellow River and Weihe River, which can provide reference for crop planting.

As for why you are holding a peach stick, it may be that the ancients were superstitious, in order to avoid evil spirits. Speaking, Kuafu should be the originator of agricultural scientists in China. He arrived in the west of Lingbao City from east to west, and later died here.

3. the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon

Ancient myths and legends in China tell a story: Chang 'e was forced by Feng Meng. In desperation, she took two pills of elixir given to her husband Hou Yi by the Queen Mother of the West and flew to the Moon Palace. The myth of "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" originated from the ancient people's worship of the stars. According to the existing written records, it first appeared in the Warring States period.

The myths and legends about Chang 'e are all recorded in the classic Gui Zang from Shang Dynasty to Warring States Period, among which it can be explained as husband and wife through the comparison of divinatory images. The annotation in Huai Nan Zi of Gaoyou in the Eastern Han Dynasty clearly points out that Chang 'e is the wife of Hou Yi. Hou Yi's wife, Heng E, changed her name to Chang 'e, because the Han people avoided the taboo of the then emperor Liu Heng.

4. Jingwei Reclamation Area

Jingwei reclamation is one of the ancient myths and legends in China. According to legend, Jingwei was originally the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan Shennong, named Nuwa. One day, the girl visited the East China Sea and drowned. After his death, his uneven spirit became a bird with a flower head, a white shell and red claws. Every day, he brings stones and plants from the mountains and throws them into the East China Sea, and then he cries "Jingwei, Jingwei" as if calling himself.

Based on different research perspectives, people divide the myth of "Jingwei Reclamation" into different myth types. Obviously, the myth of "jingwei filling the sea" belongs to a typical deformation myth, which belongs to the myth of "preserving health after death", that is, entrusting the soul to a substance that exists in reality.

Not only that, "Jingwei filling the sea" also belongs to the myth of revenge. The girl had no resentment against the sea before her death, but she drowned unexpectedly, so she forged a hatred with the sea and became a lifelong revenge for the bird to recapture the sea.

5. Mend the goddess of the sky

One of the ancient myths and legends in China, Nu Wa, the goddess of creation, is the god who opened the Chinese nation's humanities and blessed the country. According to legend, Nu Wa made man from earth and turned everything into life, so the world was no longer silent. Nu Wa, the creator of the world, is called the mother of the earth. She is a beautiful goddess, slim as a snake, so that some mythologists insist that she is just a snake.

The story of the goddess mending the sky, like the story of Nu Wa's creation, is a household name in China. In the era of Nuwa, with the increase of human reproduction, society began to be turbulent. Later generations regarded Gong Shi, the god of water, and Zhu Rong, the god of fire, as the battle of Zhoushan. As a result, in a rage, Gong crashed into Zhoushan because of a big defeat, and connected a series of dynamic and moving stories such as Nu Wa's melting colored stones to mend the sky.

In all the ancient myths and legends of China people, some have their prototype figures, and they are all tribal groups and leaders who have made great contributions to mankind in ancient times. In order to commemorate their achievements, later generations mythologized them.