China's four major folk love stories are

China's four major folk love stories are (The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, The Legend of Meng Jiangnu, The Legend of the White Snake, and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.)

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Introduction to China's four major folk love stories

Two: Meng Jiangnu Weeps at the Great Wall

Meng Jiangnu Weeps at the Great Wall is one of China's folk love legends, which tells the poignant story of Meng Jiangnu weeping down the Great Wall.

According to legend, during the Qin Dynasty, Emperor Qin Shihuang sent 800,000 workers to build the Great Wall, and the young man Fan Xiliang and the woman Meng Jiangnu just three days after their wedding, Fan Xiliang was forced to set out to build the Great Wall, the labor was heavy, and soon after he died of hunger and cold, and his body was buried under the wall of the Great Wall. Far away from home, Meng Jiangnu long not heard from her husband, when the late fall, Meng Jiangnu hand-sewn cotton clothes ready to bring to her husband, after all the hard work to come to the Great Wall, but got the bad news of her husband's death. Meng Jiangnu cried for three days and nights on the Great Wall, but suddenly the Wall collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's corpse, and the poor couple was finally able to see each other.

This moving story of the weeping of the Great Wall is an indictment of the tyrannical behavior of the feudal ruling class, and an ode to the spirit of the enslaved people who defied violence and remained steadfast.

Three, the Legend of the White Snake

In Zhenjiang City during the Song Dynasty. Bai Suzhen, a snake demon with a thousand years of training, in order to repay Xu Xian, a scholar, for saving her life in his previous life, took human form in order to repay her kindness, and then met Xiaoqing, a green snake spirit, and the two of them became companions. Bai Suzhen used her magical powers to get acquainted with Xu Xian and married him. After their marriage, Fa Hai, a monk from Jinshan Temple, told Xu Xian that Bai Suzhen was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical. Later, Xu Xian followed Fa Hai's advice and made Bai Suzhen drink wine with Xionghuang during the Dragon Boat Festival, which forced Bai Suzhen to reveal her original form, but scared Xu Xian to death. Bai Suzhen went to heaven and stole the herb Ganoderma lucidum to bring Xu Xian back to life. Fahai lured Xu Xian to the Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. Together with Xiaoqing, Bai Suzhen and Fahai fought with Fahai and flooded the temple with water, but hurt other living beings as a result. After giving birth to her child, she was taken into Fahai's bowl and suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda for violating the laws of heaven. Later, Bai Suzhen's son grows up to be a scholar and sacrifices himself to his mother in front of the pagoda, rescuing her and reuniting the family. The family is reunited, and the lovely Xiaoqing also finds her husband.

Four, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

Shangyu County, Yuezhou County, there is a woman Zhu Yingtai, like to read poetry and books, and wanted to go out to study, but at that time, women can not be out in the open, so the girl Yinxin disguised as a man, went to the city of Yuezhou to study. They met Liang Shanbo, a scholar from Yin County, who was also going to study in Yuezhou, and his servant, Shijiu. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai knew each other at first sight, so they traveled together to Yuezhou.　During the three years in Yuezhou, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai inseparable, studying together during the day, the same bed at night **** pillow, Zhu Yingtai inner secretly adore Liang Shanbo, but Liang Shanbo personality naive, never know Zhu Yingtai is a woman, not to mention her heart. Once the Ching Ming Festival holiday, the two went to the mirror lake to play, Zhu Yingtai borrowed the scenery repeatedly to Liang Shanbo hints, but Liang Shanbo completely unable to understand, and even made fun of Zhu Yingtai to compare themselves to a woman, and finally Zhu Yingtai had to directly to Liang Shanbo said, Liang Shanbo only realized. However, Ma Wencai, who was watching from the sidelines, learned of this incident, and Ma Wencai also realized that Zhu Yingtai was a woman. Later, her family wrote a letter urging Zhu Yingtai to go home, and before she left, Zhu Yingtai left a letter telling Liang Shanbo to go to Zhu's house ten days later to propose marriage, but Liang Shanbo thought that it was the three ten-day periods combined, so she went to the house one month later to propose marriage, and when Liang Shanbo arrived at Zhu's house happily, he realized that Ma Wencai had already proposed marriage before her and had already placed the betrothal gift, so Liang Shanbo was left broken-hearted! When Liang Shanbo arrived at Zhu's house, he realized that Ma Wencai had already proposed marriage and offered a bride price, and Liang Shanbo could only leave with a broken heart.　After Liang Shanbo went home, he was seriously ill with lovesickness, and wrote to Zhu Yingtai to ask for some prescriptions that he could not find or get, saying that his condition was desperate, and hoping that Zhu Yingtai could come to visit him. Zhu Yingtai wrote back to Liang Shanbo, telling him that he had no destiny in this life, and hoped that he and Zhu Yingtai could be buried together in Nanshan Mountain after their deaths. When Liang Shanbo died, Zhu Yingtai agreed to marry the Ma family under false pretenses, but demanded that the wedding procession must pass through Nanshan, and asked her to get off the sedan chair to pay homage to Liang Shanbo. When Zhu Yingtai got off the sedan chair to worship the grave, a moment of wind and rain, gloomy wind miserable, Liang Shanbo's grave even cracked, Zhu Yingtai see, defiantly jumped in, the grave immediately closed up again, soon, it flew out of the grave a pair of shape and shadow of the butterfly .......

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Baidu Encyclopedia.