Ethnic Minority Folk Tales

1. Zhuang Folk Tale: The Story of Bengong

Bengong's family was very poor, relying on his parents to rent a few acres of land from the landlord to maintain a half-full life for his family of four. He had an older sister named Tian Hua, who was very pretty.

On one occasion, Tian Hua went to a neighboring village to visit relatives, and on the way, she met the hunchback son of the neighboring landlord, Shrimp Gong. When he saw Tianhua, he thought she was a fairy, and looked at her without blinking. He went home and immediately called the matchmaker to propose marriage.

The hunchback's parents did not agree to marry their daughter to him. Later, the old man's son came to the door to ask for Tianhua's birth date and birthmark. Tianhua's parents refused to give it to him. The old man threatened, "If you don't want to marry your daughter to me, don't plant my fields next year, and pay me back the 20 taels of silver you owe me." Tian Hua's parents were cornered and had no choice but to give him Tian Hua's eight characters.

Tianhua cried and cried all day long, not eating or drinking, saying that he would rather die than marry Shrimp Gong, Shrimp Gong was afraid of forcing people to die, the wedding date was delayed again and again, and could not be fixed. One afternoon, the upside down male said to Tianhua: "sister you do not cry, I will go to the landlord's home today to get your eight back." His parents said, "Without silver, it's harder than climbing up to heaven to get your sister's eight characters back."

Bump Gong went to the landlord's house in the evening and said to Shrimp Gong, "Brother-in-law, my sister has agreed, and called me to ask when you are going to take the marriage, so that she can prepare for it." Shrimp Gong was very happy, and stayed at his house to eat dinner. During the meal, Mr. Beng acted like a glutton, drinking glass after glass of wine, eating bowl after bowl of rice, and putting chopsticks on his plate.

Shrimp Gong's family is full, he is still eating slowly. The table four plates of food eaten up, pick up the empty plate to lick, lick a clean and a new, tongue lick can not place, with the hand to scrape the residue into the mouth, oil soup wet chest clothes also do not care, the plate licked still pretending to be not yet full of the appearance. The shrimp family was watching the fool's acrobatics.

The landlord's wife said: "old brother, you lick the plate is too ugly, not full and then fried it." The landlord scoffed and said, "The poor man's stomach is like a bucket of driving rain, there is a time to fill up?" The upside down male and kept licking the two hands scraping the plate, shamelessly said: "I lick the plate is nothing, my sister at home even licked the frying pan head bright mile.

"The landlord was shocked and said; "To have this kind of daughter-in-law is a disgrace to the family, and a disgrace to the eighteen generations of ancestors." After saying this, he threw Tian Hua's character to Bengong, and said sternly: "Hungry ghost, get out of here!" The family guards blew Bumpy Gong out of the gate, and Bumpy Gong ran home in a gust of wind to report his good news to his sister and parents.

2, Xishuangbanna, Dehong Dai Water Festival

Legend has it that a long time ago, the Jinsha River side of a gathering in the deep forest of the Dai village, because of the forest fire, the villagers in the fire was engulfed in danger, a Dai man named Li Liang, in order to protect the village, undaunted by the dangers of the fire net, picking up buckets of water from the Jinsha River, splashing the mountain fire.

After a day and a night of labor, the fire was finally extinguished, the villagers were saved, Li Liang because of the exhaustion of the sweat dried up, collapsed on the hill. The villagers called water to Li Liang to quench his thirst, but he drank 99 pick of water can not quench his thirst. Later, Li Liang simply jumped headlong into the river and turned into a huge dragon and went down the river. Some say he turned into a big tree.

The Dai people in honor of Li Liang, every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, each house cleaned up, sprinkled with pine leaves, and in the selected riverside or wells, with the green tree set up a long half-mile-long green shed, under the shed sprinkled with thick pine needles, both sides of the water tank full of water,

The midday when the sun is the top of the day, the crowd walked between the shed, each other with the pine dipped in water sprinkled with the water body, the water of auspicious happiness with each other! Splash, to express the remembrance of Li Liang and the blessing of the New Year. This activity has continued to this day, and has become the festival of the Dai people to welcome the old and bless the new year with good luck - Water Splashing Festival.

3. The story of the monk's ascension to heaven

The story goes that during the Tang Dynasty, there was a section chief in the Luzhou Prefecture named Li Huozhen. When he arrived at the government is empty silver, even the officials, soldiers ring money can not get. There was nothing he could do about it, so someone gave him an idea and said; there is an old monk in the area who is highly respected, and the people are obedient to him, so why don't you let him do the magic, and let the people donate some money and goods.

So, Mr. Li went to see the old monk and told him the reason. In order to eliminate the old monk's concern, Lord Li said we have dug a tunnel under the altar, and so after the fire, you will come out along the tunnel, to ensure that you are safe and sound. Lord Li again took the old monk site actually walked again.

This set the auspicious date, the people of the state heard that the old monk sitting altar preaching, have come to donate money.

To the day of the opening of the saying, the surrounding people also came to donate money. A few days of work donations have reached hundreds of millions! This his time has come to see the old monk high high sitting on the altar, below is a group of young monks Dharma music. Good a lively! After a while to hear someone shouting; Living Buddha appeared to welcome the fire! Suddenly the altar of fire around the sky, the poor old monk down to the altar of the law can tunnel through the mouth has long been blocked.

To be fire extinguished after the altar only left a few pieces of relics! The people really believe that the living Buddha ascended to heaven. Lord Li's immediate problem was solved, and the relief money exchanged for a human life was counted as a good deed done by the old monk.

This is; fake drama silly monk, along with the living God to heaven, had known that can have this line, why be willing to be a windbreak.