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What are the ancient fables in China?

1, Legend of White Snake

A tortuous love story between a snake spirit who cultivates human form and human beings. Stories include the story of Wupeng boat borrowing an umbrella, the story of White Snake stealing Ganoderma lucidum, the story of flooding Jinshan, the story of broken bridge, the story of Leifeng Tower, the story of Xu Xian Shilin sacrificing the son of the tower, and the story of Fahai escaping from the crab's stomach. It expresses the people's admiration for the free love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable bondage of feudal forces.

2. Gong Yu moved mountains

Gong Yu braved difficulties, persevered, dug mountains and dug land, and finally moved the Emperor of Heaven and moved the mountain away. Through the contrast between the persistence of a foolish man and the cowardice of a wise man, and the contrast between "foolish man" and "wisdom", the self-confidence and perseverance of the working people in ancient China are demonstrated, and the reason that perseverance is needed to overcome difficulties is explained.

3. Shennong tasted a hundred herbs

According to legend, Emperor Yan is the head of a cow. He personally tasted hundreds of herbs and developed herbs to treat diseases. He invented slash-and-burn cultivation and created two kinds of agricultural tools to teach people to reclaim land and grow food crops; He also led the tribal people to make pottery and cookers for food.

4, Dayu water control

Dayu led the people to fight against floods in natural disasters and finally won. Facing the flood, Dayu learned a lesson from the failure of gun control, changed the method of "blocking" and diverted the flood, which showed that he had the wisdom to lead the people to overcome difficulties. In order to control the flood, Dayu has been fighting with outsiders for many years, regardless of personal interests.

5, Suiren's fire

In ancient times, Suiren was inspired by woodpeckers and caught fire. It is said that there was a big tree in the Ming Dynasty, which was very famous and intertwined, covering an area of 10,000 hectares. A saint wandered beyond the sun and the moon, came to this country, rested under this tree, and saw a bird pecking on the tree and releasing fire. Inspired by this, saints also used twigs to drill wood to make a fire. In the future, this person will be called "Suiren".