What are the myths in China related to love?

1. The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a smart, loyal young man in the Niu family house west of Nanyang city, whose parents died early and had to follow his brother and sister-in-law to get by, and whose sister-in-law, Ma, was vicious and often abused him.

One day, the heavenly Weaving Maiden and all the nymphs came down to earth together, bathing in the river and enjoying the joys of the earth. While they were swimming, the Weaving Maiden met the Cowherd, and the two of them fell in love with each other, and with the help of the old cow, they were married. After the marriage of Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, the man plowed and the woman wove, the couple loved each other, had a twin child, had a child and a daughter, a family of four, and lived a sweet life.

But the good times didn't last long, and this was known to the Jade Emperor in heaven, who asked the Queen Mother to come down to earth in person and force the Weaving Maiden to bring her back to heaven, breaking up their beautiful marriage.

The old cow looked at the tearful cowherd and the two children who cried bitterly, it also could not help but shed tears, the old cow said to the cowherd: "You do not cry and hurt your body, but also to raise two children. I have a way to relieve you of your difficulties, and it is time for me to repay you. When I die, I will make three pairs of shoes from my skin, and you and the two children will wear them to heaven, and the family will be reunited."

The old cow died that day, the cowherd did what the old cow said, they put on the shoes made of the old cowhide, and together they went up to the sky to look for the Weaving Maiden, and saw that they were about to catch up with her, but she didn't realize that the Queen Mother was cruel, and pulled down the golden hairpin on her head, and then she swung it, and a raging heavenly river appeared, and the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden were separated from each other by two sides of the heavenly river, and they could only cry in opposition to each other.

The faithful love of the cowherd and the weaving maid touched the magpies, ten million magpies flew to build a magpie bridge, so that the cowherd and the weaving maid went up to the magpie bridge to meet, the Queen Mother was touched by the couple's love, and they were allowed to meet every year on the seventh day of the seventh month at the magpie bridge.

2, Meng Jiangnu

Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall of the story took place in Hunan Li Zhou Meng Jiangshan surrounding areas (now Jin City, Li County, subdistributed Jia Shan area), according to legend, the Qin Emperor, fleeing back to his hometown of young Fan Xilang and Meng Jiangnu wedding night, was about to go into the bridal chamber when Fan Xilang was captured and sent to the north to repair the Great Wall, and soon die of starvation and cold and fatigue, the body was buried in the Great Wall under the wall.

Meng Jiangnu came to the Great Wall with her cold clothes on her back, searching for her husband for thousands of miles. She wept bitterly under the city, three days and three nights more than, finally cried down the Great Wall, leaching blood to find her husband's bones, swore to bring her husband's bones back to his hometown to be buried. After a long and difficult journey, she died of hunger and thirst in Tongguan County, Xi'an Province, Shaanxi Province.

The local people were touched by Meng Jiangnu's true feelings and buried their remains in a shrine, which is still burned to this day. The hometown of Meng Jiangnu, Jiashan, has a lot of cultural relics about Meng Jiangnu, with a wide range of physical attractions and popular stories and operas.

Reflecting the people's hatred of feudal tyranny and their desire and pursuit of a free and happy life, it has survived more than 2,000 years of circulation, and is a precious cultural heritage of our Chinese nation and the nostalgia of overseas Chinese for their homeland.

3. The Legend of the White Snake

The story was written in the Southern Song Dynasty or earlier, and matured and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and is a model of Chinese folk collective creation. The White Snake Tale, which was collected in Feng Menglong's "A Cautionary Tale", is the earliest version of the White Snake Tale that can be found today.

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The two serpent fairies, who have been practicing for a thousand years in Emei Mountain, come to the West Lake on earth and turn into the beautiful maidens, White Maiden and Qing'er. They meet the young Xu Xian in the rain, and love develops between the White Maiden and Xu Xian and they become husband and wife.

Fa Hai, a monk, thought that this was a demonic evil, so he compelled Xu Xian to get his wife drunk on the Dragon Boat Festival by using xiong huang wine, and when she was drunk, she showed her snake form and scared Xu Xian to death. When she woke up, she was so shocked and pained that she sacrificed her life to go to the fairy mountain to steal back the immortal grass and save Xu Xian's life.

Unexpectedly, when Xu Xian recovered from his illness, he was lured by Fa Hai to the Jinshan Temple. The White Lady and Qing'er arrived, but Fahai is not allowed to see Xu Xian, the White Lady has no choice, and Qing'er mobilized the water tribe, the water flooded San Francisco, Fahai invited the gods and goddesses to protect the law to help the battle, do not want to be in Fahai Zen masters of the scheme, was mounted into a very small mantle, pressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, and from then on the loss of personal freedom and the happiness of the heavenly family.

4, Liang Zhu

Shangyu scholar Miss Zhu Yingtai, ranking ninth, is the only daughter of her parents. Born smart and delicate, lively and beautiful, innocent and persistent. Since she was a child, she has been reading and writing poetry, and she is good at chess, piano, calligraphy and painting. She is not afraid of the world, not to let men, to persuade her parents to play the role of the moon goddess shrine encountered by the poor scholar Liang Shanbo.

Liang Shanbo was born a commoner in a poor family, and his father died when he was a child, so he was raised by his mother. He was a straightforward, simple and sincere man who was determined to succeed his father's ambition to help the world. On his way to the Nishan Academy in Hangzhou, he met Zhu Yingtai, who was dressed as a man, and the two of them shared the same feelings and became friends. In the academy for three years, and Yingtai "day table, night bed", mutual care, deep love.

The Nishan Academy is known as a good place for scholarly children to study and join the civil service in the south of the Yangtze River. Ma Wencai, son of the Hangzhou governor, and Wang Lantian, son of the Taiyuan Wang clan, also came here.

Ma Wencai's elegance, first-class knowledge, coupled with an excellent horseback riding and archery, in the academy of the group of heroes. He relied on his father, who was a governor at the time, and his own favorable conditions, and gathered a group of foppish children among the students, and repeatedly went against Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. When Shanbo ranked higher than him, he went so far as to kill Shanbo.

When he spies that Yingtai is a woman and has fallen in love with Liang Shanbo, he plays all sorts of tricks and vows to take Yingtai as his wife. Zhu Yingtai is a rare flower nurtured by the Yue culture. She is stubborn and upright, and stands out in the special world of men in the academy.

She disliked Ma Wencai's Jie Ao, despised Wang Lantian's lewdness, and disliked Lord Wang's pretentiousness. She loves the simplicity of Liang Shanbo the most. Three years of schoolmates, ear to ear, a few misunderstandings to eliminate, a few times life and death. Yingtai fell in love with Shanbo.

But due to Shan Bo's lack of understanding, Yingtai failed to explicitly say, Wen Cai from the obstruction, so that the two people from the bond to worship, resentment, hatred, and then to know each other, love each other, send each other, promised to each other, the misunderstanding of each other, meet each other, resent each other, forced each other, fight each other, until the last mutual martyrdom, the butterfly, the whole play renders a twist and turn bizarre, warm and romantic, poignant and absolutely beautiful legend of a love story.

5, Tianxian match

Dong Yong's story is a source, it is seen in the history, class books, notes, subsets of the earlier three or four. It is widely believed that he was a native of Qingzhou in the Han Dynasty, in the northern part of present-day Shandong Province. As for the place where the story of his selling his body to bury his father and meeting a fairy on the way took place, there are different accounts.

Dong Yong sold himself to bury his father and became a slave in the house of Mr. Fu. The seventh fairy of the Jade Emperor sympathized with Dong Yong and came down to earth to marry him. The seventh fairy weaves 10 pieces of brocade in one night, helping Dong Yong to change his three-year long labor to 100 days. At the end of the 100-day period, the couple returned home, but the Jade Emperor ordered the Seven Immortals to return to Heaven. For the sake of Dong Yong, the Seven Immortals endured the pain of saying goodbye to their husbands.

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