What are the traditional folk tales in China

1, Meng Jiangnu weeping the Great Wall

It is a famous folklore in ancient China, which is widely circulated in the form of drama, ballad, poem, rap and so on, and can be called a household name. Legend has it that during the time of Qin Shi Huang, when labor was heavy, the young man and woman Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu were newly married for three days, the groom was forced to set out to build the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold and exhaustion, and their bones were buried under the wall of the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnu carried cold clothes, through the hardships, ten thousand miles to find her husband came to the Great Wall, but got the bad news of her husband. She cried for three days and three nights, and when the city crumbled, revealing Fan Xiliang's body, Meng Jiangnu threw herself into the sea in despair and died.

2. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

Ju Yingtai traveled in disguise as a man, and met Liang Shanbo, who was both a scholar and a fighter, and fell in love at first sight. After the two students **** read the same window, and become brothers, feelings deepening. When they parted, Yingtai promised herself to Liang under the name of "Nine Sisters".

But Zhu forced his daughter to marry Ma Wencai, the son of Ma Taishou, and Yingtai refused to do so, but Shanbo mistook Yingtai's change of heart, and died of depression. In front of Liang Shanbo's grave, Zhu Yingtai was so grief-stricken that with the help of a fairy goddess, the two of them flew through the air and became a happy couple.

3, Cowherd and Weaving Maiden:

Cowherd and Weaving Maiden is a famous folk love story in ancient China, which is derived from the star names of Altair and Vega. It is mainly about the orphaned Cowherd who relies on his brother and sister-in-law to live. His sister-in-law is mean and often mistreats him, and he is forced to separate from his family and rely on an old ox to plow and feed himself.

The old ox is very spiritual, one day, the Weaving Maiden and all the fairies came down to the earth to play, bathing in the river, the old ox persuaded Cowherd to go to see each other, and told Cowherd that if the fairies could not come back before dawn, they would have to stay in the mortal world, Cowherd stayed by the river to see the seven fairies, and found that the youngest of them was very pretty, and fell in love with her, and remembered the words of the old ox, so Cowherd took the youngest's clothes quietly, the youngest's clothes. Fairy bath ready to return to heaven, the smallest fairy found the clothes disappeared can only stay, the cowherd so with the small fairy weaver made the encounter, and then they are very talkative, understand the difficulties of each, the weaver will do the cowherd's wife.

After the marriage, they ploughed and wove, and had a son and a daughter, and lived a very happy life. However, the Emperor found out about this and ordered the Queen Mother to escort the Weaving Maiden back to Heaven to stand trial. The old ox could not bear to see their wives separated, so he broke the horn on his head and turned it into a boat, so that the cowherd could catch up with his son and daughter in the boat. Seeing that they were about to catch up with the Weaving Maiden, the Queen Mother suddenly pulled off the golden hairpin on her head and drew a rolling Milky Way in the sky. The Cowherd was unable to cross the river, and could only look at the Weaving Maiden from afar at the river's edge and cry to her.

Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a colorful bridge across the river with their bodies, so that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden could meet each other on the heavenly river. The Emperor had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden to meet once a year on the bridge on July 7, with the magpies by their side. The magpies would also be with them. In the future, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden would meet every year on the seventh day of the seventh month.

4, General Cypress

Legend has it that more than two thousand years ago, Han Emperor Liu Che went to Songshan "Songyang Guan" tour, a head into the door, saw a cypress tree, the figure of the strange, dense foliage, can not help but praised: "Aiya! Good big cypress tree ah!"

Those accompanying officials saw the emperor on this tree praise, also followed, "Yes! We have traveled all over the world with His Majesty and have never seen such a big cypress tree!" The emperor called the ministers to respond, and the discussion grew more and more excited. Han Wu Di face this tree, look up again and again, sighing, a mouth will be this cypress tree as "General".

Sealed "General", and to the back of the yard to go, climbed the reading platform, through the two halls, came to the center of the courtyard, and then saw a cypress tree, bigger than the "General". But a moment to think of a suitable title; the front yard of the tree's title to move over it, himself as the son of heaven, the golden tongue, the title has been set, can not be changed. Think about it, finally made up his mind, only to see him pointing to the big cypress tree in front of him, said: "I seal this cypress for the 'two generals'".

One of the imperial ambassadors kneeled down and said, "I Qi-hail, this tree can be much bigger than the one in the front yard ah!" The meaning was that he wanted to remind Han Wu Di to change the seal, but he did not dare to say it outright. Han Wu Di also fully aware of the meaning of the courtier, but in order to maintain his dignity, he knew that the wrong seal, but hard not to change. Just see his face a black mourning, reprimanded the minister, said: "What big ah small ah, the first into the main!" Frightened that accompanied by driving the imperial envoy quickly kowtowed and said "yes". When the other officials saw this, no one dared to talk anymore. Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, after sealing the "general cypress", left Songyangguan.

5, Tianluo girl

Tianluo girl is a character in the local folklore of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, from the "Search for the gods after the book" Volume V. The story is that the emperor of heaven knew that Xie Duan had been a child since his childhood. The story tells that the emperor knew that Xie Duan had lost both parents and was alone since he was a child, so he sympathized with him and saw that he was frugal and peaceful, so he sent the goddess Tian Luo to help him. It is also rumored that the storyline is similar to that of the conch lake in Shehong County, Sichuan Province.

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