What four folk stories do we usually tell?

Four popular folk stories are Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Legend of White Snake, Liang Zhu and Meng Jiangnv crying in the Great Wall.

1, Liang Zhu

There is a woman in Shangyu County, Yuezhou, Zhu Yingtai who likes reading poetry and wants to study abroad. But at that time, women could not appear in public, so she disguised as men with the girl Yin Xin and went to Yuezhou to study. On the way, I met Yin Zhuangyuan and Shijiu Temple who were also going to study in Yuezhou. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai hit it off and went to Yuezhou together.

During the three years in Yuezhou, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were inseparable, reading together during the day and sleeping in the same bed at night. Zhu Yingtai secretly admired Liang Shanbo, but Liang Shanbo's character remained unchanged. He never knew that Zhu Yingtai was a woman, let alone her mind.

Later, his family wrote to urge Zhu Yingtai to go home. Before he left, Zhu Yingtai left a letter telling Liang Shanbo that "28, 37 and 46 will be fixed", which means that Liang Shanbo will go to Zhu Fu to propose marriage ten days later, but he thought it was three days together, so he proposed marriage one month later. When Liang Shanbo arrived in Jiazhu happily, he knew that Ma Wencai had proposed first and prepared a dowry.

Liang Shanbo had to leave with a broken heart, and Zhu Yingtai saw each other off on the road. After Liang Shanbo returned to China, Acacia was seriously ill. He wrote to Zhu Yingtai asking for some prescriptions that he couldn't find or get, expressing his despair. At the same time, he hoped that Zhu Yingtai would visit him. Zhu Yingtai wrote back to tell Liang Shanbo that he had no chance in his life and only hoped that they could be buried in Nanshan after their death.

Later, she died of illness and promised Ma's marriage for a pretence, but asked the wedding procession to pass through Nanshan and let her get off the sedan chair. When Zhu Yingtai got off the sedan chair to sweep the grave, it was stormy for a while and the evil wind was piercing. Liang Shanbo's tomb is actually cracked. When Zhu Yingtai saw it, he jumped in desperately and the grave was closed again. Soon, a pair of butterflies flew out of the grave.

2. Meng Jiangnv is crying at the Great Wall.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a Mengjiazhuang in Songjiang Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, and there was an old man in Mengjiazhuang who was good at growing gourds. This year, the gourds he planted are very prosperous, and one of them actually grew to the neighbor Jiang Jiayuan. Meng and Jiang are very close, so they met in autumn and married half the Hulu family.

The elder said, "Your two families agreed that half of the gourd family, so let's take the child in the gourd as yours." Therefore, the little girl became the apple of Jiang Meng's eye. Old and childless, he lives in the Meng family and is named.

The stars move and fly, and Meng Jiangnv grows up day by day. She is ingenious, clever and beautiful. She weaves and sings orioles, and Meng Laohan regards it as a treasure.

Meng Jiangnv saw that Fan Xiliang knew how to write books and was honest, so she secretly made a wish. Meng Laohan also sympathized with Fan Xiliang, so he stayed with him. Meng Jiangnv made it clear to her father that Meng Laohan was very much in favor of it. He hurried to the front hall and said to Fan Xiliang, "You are wandering around now and have no place to live. I want to make you my husband. What do you think? "

Fan Xiliang hurriedly left his seat and said, "I'm a fugitive, and I'm afraid I'll bring trouble to my young lady in the future. I dare not think about getting married. " But Meng Jiangnv has made up her mind that she doesn't want to get married unless she likes it. Finally, Fan Xiliang finally agreed. Meng Laohan was happy from ear to ear. He quickly discussed with the Chiang family, chose an auspicious day and married them.

At this point, the Meng family was still in the dark. They have just been married for three days and are still immersed in joy. Suddenly, with a loud noise, the door was knocked open and a group of officers and men rushed in. They jumped in and tied Fan Xiliang's rope. Meng Jiangnv rushed forward and was pushed away by the officers and men, watching her husband being taken away by the officers and men.

From then on, Meng Jiangnu missed you day and night, and she was very sad. In a blink of an eye, winter came and it snowed heavily. Jiang Nv asked her husband to build the Great Wall. It was freezing in the cold and she had no clothes to keep out the cold. She rushed to sew cotton-padded clothes day and night, singing her own ditty while doing it: "The moon is particularly curved, and Meng Jiangnv's husband built the Great Wall. Even if Wan Li goes all the way, it is affectionate to send warm clothes. "

Overnight, the cotton-padded clothes were ready, and Meng Jiangnv trudged all the way and embarked on a journey. Along the way, I waded through mountains and rivers, slept in the wind, and rushed forward day and night without knowing hunger, thirst and fatigue. This day finally came to the foot of the Great Wall.

The Great Wall fell 800 miles, and the officers and men panicked. They reported to Qin Shihuang. Qin Shihuang was furious and ordered the arrest of Meng Jiangnv. When Meng Jiangnu was arrested, Qin Shihuang wanted to accept her as the official queen as soon as he saw her beautiful.

Meng Jiangnv said: "I want to be your queen, first of all, I want to rely on three things: first, I want to build a long bridge, ten miles long and ten miles wide; Second, we should build a mound on Shilifang Mountain; Third, long live Pima Dai Xiao to pay homage to my husband's grave in person. " Qin Shihuang thought about it and agreed. In a few days, all the graves of Long Bridge will be built. Qin Shihuang, dressed in linen, lined up and crossed the long bridge on the city to pay homage to the grave.

After the sacrifice, Qin Shihuang asked Meng Jiangnv to return to the palace with him. Meng Jiangnv sneered, "You are stupid and cruel. You killed everyone in the world, and now you have killed my husband. Can I be your queen? Don't even think about it! " After that, he held her husband's bones and jumped into the rough sea. For a time, the waves rolled and vacated, as if lamenting for Meng Jiangnu.

3. Legend of White Snake

Zhenjiang city in song dynasty. The White Snake is a snake demon who has practiced for thousands of years. In order to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving his life in his last life, he turned into a human figure to repay his kindness. Later, I met the green snake essence Xiaoqing and they got together. Mrs White Snake used his magic to get to know Xu Xian and marry him. After the marriage, the monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple told Xu Xian that White Snake was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical.

Later, according to Fahai's method, Xu Xian asked the White Snake to drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mrs White Snake had to show his true colors, but he scared Xu Xian half to death. The White Snake went to Heaven to steal the fairy grass Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian. Fahai tricked Xu Xian into Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. The White Snake fought with Fahai, flooded Jinshan Temple, but hurt other creatures.

After giving birth, the White Snake who broke the dogma was put into a bowl by Fahai and suppressed under the Leifeng Tower. Mrs. White Snake's son became the best scholar when he grew up. He went to the tower to worship his mother, saved her and reunited the whole family. And the lovely Xiaoqing also found Xianggong.

4. Cowherd and Weaver Girl

Mainly tells the story of the orphan cowherd who lives by his aunt. Sister-in-law is very mean and often abuses him. He was forced to leave his family and live on an old cow.

This old cow is very psychic. One day, the weaver girl and the fairies took a bath together in the river. The old cow advised the cowherd to meet him and told him that if the fairies didn't come back before dawn, he would have to stay on earth. So the cowherd stayed by the river to see the seven fairies. He found that the youngest of them was very beautiful and suddenly fell in love. The cowherd remembered the old cow and quietly took the little fairy's clothes.

The fairies took a bath and prepared to return to heaven. The little fairy found that her clothes were gone and had to stay. The cowherd and the fairy met. Later, they hit it off and understood their difficulties. The Weaver Girl became the wife of the Cowherd. After marriage, they farm and weave, have a son and a daughter, and live a very happy life.

Unexpectedly, the Emperor of Heaven discovered this matter and ordered the Queen Mother to escort the Weaver Girl back to heaven for trial. The old cow couldn't bear to see their wife and children separated, so she touched the horn on her head and turned it into a boat for the cowherd to chase with her children. On the verge of catching up with Weaver Girl, the Queen Mother suddenly tore off the golden hairpin on her head and drew a rolling galaxy in the sky.

Cowherd can't cross the river, so he can only look at the river and cry with Weaver Girl. Their faithful love touched magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a colorful bridge on the Tianhe River with their bodies, so that the cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe River. The Emperor of Heaven had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet at the Magpie Bridge once a year on July 7th, and the magpies would be around. Cowherd and Weaver Girl will meet on July 7th every year.

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1, Cowherd and Weaver Girl

The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl began with the records of "You are the Weaver Girl" and "You are the Cowherd" in The Book of Songs Dadong. Nineteen ancient poems, jumping between cowherd and weaver girl, were once called cowherd and weaver girl. Ying Shao's "Custom Pass" Wen Yi: "Weaver crossing the river on Tanabata, making a magpie bridge. According to legend, on the seventh day, the magpie's head was white and high, because the beam (note: bridge) crossed the weaver girl. " The story has been initially formed and combined with the Qixi custom.

2. Meng Jiangnv

The legend of Meng Jiangnv originated from Zuo Zhuan, in which Qi Liang's wife refused to hang on the outskirts of Qi Hou, observing etiquette. Later, in "Talking about the Public", it was added that "Qi Zhuanggong attacked Ju and Qi Liang died. The sadness of his wife crying when she met him on the road is the prototype of the story. Liu Hanxiang's Biography of Women (IV) notes: "liangzhi died in battle, his wife cried at the gate, and the city was trapped for ten days. "

3. Liang Zhu

Liang Zhu's story was first seen in Tang Zaiyan's Ten Rules and Four Rules, which recorded the story of Liang Zhu's "two classmates studying together" and "sharing the same grave". In the late Tang Dynasty, Zhang Du's Xuan Baozhi recorded this in detail. By the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong's ancient and modern novels had more plots of "English and Taiwan were puzzled, and Liang Shanbo was suspicious and turned into a butterfly".

4. White Snake and Xu Xian

The story of the white snake came into being at the latest, and its origin: First, it originated from the legendary white snake in the Tang Dynasty; One theory originated from the three towers of the West Lake. By the time of Feng Menglong's "The White Snake Forever True Leifeng Pagoda" (namely "Warning") in the Ming Dynasty, the story had been initially finalized.

Reference source 1: Baidu Encyclopedia-Liang Zhu (China ancient folk love story)

Reference 2: Baidu Encyclopedia-Meng Jiangnv Crying in the Great Wall (one of the four folk love stories in China)

Reference Source 3: Baidu Encyclopedia-Legend of the White Snake (Folklore Story)

Reference source 4: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cowherd and Weaver Girl (a famous folk story in China)