Chinese Folk Tales Handbook Text Content

Folktales are one of the important subjects in folk literature. In a broad sense, a folktale is an oral literary work in the form of prose with fictional content created and disseminated by the working people, and it is a collective term for all folk prose works.

Folk Tale 1

Legend has it that during the time of the Western Xia, there was a capital city called Blackwater City, inhabited by a monarch, who was extremely heroic and able to fight well and was called General Black. He was the last monarch of Heishui City, not willing to be isolated, and went out to fight for supremacy. He was defeated and fled back to Blackwater City. The enemy army surrounded the city of Blackwater, a long time to attack, see outside the city of Ejinagi river through the city, they used sandbags to block the upstream water source, cut off the water in the city. The defenders of Heishui City dug a well in the city, but no water could be seen even after digging deep into the well. General Hei decided to lead his army out of the city to fight. Before the battle, General Hei dumped more than 80 carriages of white gold together with other treasures into the well, and killed his wife and children with his own hands to prevent them from falling into the enemy's hands. Afterwards, he led his army to the battlefield, but he was outnumbered and died in the battle. When the enemy attacked the city, they searched the whole city and found no treasure.

Since then, the story of the treasure left behind by General Hei has attracted many people to search for the treasure, but the whereabouts of the treasure is still a mystery.

Folk Tale 2

Legend has it that there was a young man named Huang He who was valiant. He fell in love with a rich woman.

But the woman's father looked down on him and told him to shoot an arrow a hundred paces into the hole of a copper coin. He did it. The woman's father again asked him to shoot an arrow at a hundred paces, penetrating the original arrow he also did. He was again asked to shoot a copper coin at a hundred paces and catch it.

Knowing that his husband was making things difficult for him, he shot an arrow at her father. How did he know that he had learned martial arts before and dodged it. He was very angry, he had never been able to shoot an arrow without hitting it, and this time he missed. Then he went deep into the mountains to practice. Once accidentally shot down a bird, the bird told him that the girl had committed suicide.

The lad was so sad that he just kept the tears coming, forming the now rolling Yellow River.

Folk Tale 3

Lin Bu lived in seclusion on Mount Kokushan, West Lake, Hangzhou, in his later years. He planted three hundred and sixty-five plum trees on the mountain. He worked hard to weed and fertilize the trees on weekdays. When the plums were ripe, there were groups of vendors who came to buy his plums. He sold plums not by catty but according to the number of plums per tree, the gross judgment, the valuation is fair. So vendors like to buy his plums, he also prepared three hundred and sixty-five bamboo tubes, the money sold under each tree into a separate bamboo tube numbered. Whether there are customers, no customers or customers, customers, customers less. The money from one bamboo tube of plums a day, never use more than a penny.

He also raised two cranes. When the guests came, the gentleman made a sudden whistle, and the white cranes immediately flew and stood in front of the gentleman. He put the money and the note in a bag and hung it on the crane's neck, so that the crane flew to the market to buy fish, meat, wine and food. The traders saw the white crane fly, know that Mr. guests, according to the note of the goods to collect money to pay for the goods, hand over the white crane to bring back.