Folk Tales of Ethnic Minorities (350 words or more)

1, Xishuangbanna, Dehong Dai Water Festival

Legend is that a long time ago, the Jinsha River side of a gathering of Dai villages in the depths of the dense forests, due to the forest fire, the villagers in the fire engulfed in danger, a Dai man named Li Liang, in order to protect the village, undaunted by the dangers of the fire net, picking 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.

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

The story goes that during the Tang Dynasty, there was a section envoy in 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 worries, 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, the following 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, if I had known that I could have this line, why would I be willing to be a windbreak wall.

3, Yao catch the bird festival legend

Legend, in a long, long time ago, Jianghua mountainous areas, dense forests, very suitable for birds to flourish. The tits, pheasants, turtledoves, etc. that feed on grains survived the harsh winter, saw the peach blossoms bloom, stretched their wings, flew up to the sky, stood on the high branches, and sang joyful songs when they saw the mountain people coming.

Seeing the sister aunt in the hands of the golden grain seeds, a handful, a string, scattered into the black fertile mountain soil, sang more joyfully, inviting partners, quickly come to the "meal"! In this way, they are often in groups, flying as dark clouds cover the sun, falling like a black curtain on the ground, plowing the mountain people go, they skillfully tested the "scarecrow", flying down the slope, with a sharp beak and keep pecking, in a short while, the mountain soil will be spoiled out of shape.

Bird damage has become a heart disease for people who plow the mountains. There is no harvest in the mountains, farming mountain people only eat vegetables, the government's money and water grain flow also dried up, the emperor was panicked, busy under the holy decree: "who checked the bird damage, reward forest nine frame, tax exemption for nine years."

After the holy decree was passed down, the mountain masters, plowing mountain people have thought of ways to open. There was a Pan Ying nun in Pan Yun Zhai who loved to sing. When the mountain farmers heard her song, their mouths dissolved like a piece of honey; when she sang to the mountain springs, they all stopped flowing; when she sang to the mountain forests, the birds were so shy that they did not dare to open their mouths, and when Pan Yinggu's song stopped, the birds still refused to leave for a long time.

The people who plowed the mountains thought: to drive the birds away, Pan Yinggu must have a way. So the men and women of Pan Yunzhai all came to Yinggu's wooden building, learned to sing with her, and discussed spreading the song among the cultivators of the ninety-nine villages, agreeing that on the last day of the first month of the following year, before the planting of seeds, the birds and birds would be lured away from the Nine Mountains and driven to Baitoushan, where there were no yangchun crops.

In Pan Yunzhai, there is a mountain master called Pan A Dui, raised a pair of eyebrow, every morning, he hung the birdcage on the beams of the wooden building, teasing the eyebrow to sing. Strange to say, also attracted some tits, the day stops at the head of the fortress, the night sleeps on the eaves of the building, the mountain master is very happy: "Ha ha, nine frame ridge and to my name."

So he hurriedly repaired the book, reported to the emperor. The emperor Zhu pen a point, ordered all the mountain strongholds: mountain masters raise more painted eyebrow, the day at the end of the first month, bird to attract birds, the birds of the nine mountains and nine ridges of the birds on the white head of the mountain Shiyan Ridge.

The last day of the first month has arrived, and it is time to plant the early grain, early in the morning, the ninety-nine cottages of the plow mountain people, singing gathering cottage head. The mountain master of the ninety-nine walled villages, watched the birds fly out of the forest in groups, flew to the walled villages, so happy, lifted up the birdcage, grabbed in front of the cultivation of the mountain people, to the white head of the mountain to converge. The birds also really chased after the song, followed the people, flew to the White Head Mountain.

On this day, there were a lot of people and a lot of birds on Whitehead Mountain. On sunny days, the birds flew in rows to provide shade for the singers, and on rainy days, the birds flew in teams to protect the singers from the wind and rain. The mountain ploughman sings from early morning to dusk, and the birds and finches literally forget to fly back to the mountains, and when they are tired, they land on the rocks, and the people quietly leave.

By the next day, the birds flew to the clouds in search of songs, and they flew around Baektu Mountain as if the mountain had an endless supply of songs to hear. In this way, the birds and finches stayed on Baekdu Mountain for six months, and when they woke up, there were only rice stalks left on the slopes, and the people who plowed the mountain had long ago collected the grain into their fortress gates.

4, Liu Sanjie

Liu Sanjie is a folk legend of the Zhuang people, the ancient folklore singer, intelligent and sensitive, song as a spring, beautiful and moving, "song fairy" reputation. People are incredibly fond of Liu Sanjie, about her stories and records a lot, but also in the March 3 every year as a holiday to commemorate her.

Liu Sanjie was born in 618 in Indigo Village (now Indigo Village, Xiari Community, Xiari Town, Sizhao Town, Mulao Autonomous County, Luocheng) in Tianhe County (now Sizhao Town, Mulao Autonomous County, Luocheng), where the ruins of her former residence are still there, and there are still records of the genealogy of the Liu family name in that village.

Next to the county town of Luocheng is very close, Liu Sanjie often go to Luocheng to sing songs, in the Chinese people's *** and before the establishment of the State of Luocheng County in the northwest of the city of the Duoji Temple of the back of the temple enshrines the song fairy Liu Sanjie's statue, called the "Three Sisters Song Hall," where visitors are often singing to the song, so the East Gate (Luocheng County Resident) four to play! Good fun, said in the country is unique. In 1958, "Liu Sanjie colorful drama" creative group after in-depth folk sampling, identified Liu Sanjie is the Luocheng people.

5, the legend of the Miao reed-sheng

Lad mouth away from the sheng, the girl hands away from the needle; will not blow the sheng is not the Miao Daheng (young man), will not be embroidered is not the Miao Da Pei (girl). Lusheng, Qiandong Miao dialect called "to" (Gix), Sichuan Qian Dian Miao dialect called "more" (Ghenb), made of bamboo.

Each lusheng has six tubes, and in the lusheng song there is a description of "lusheng with three tubes and a long dipper; the dipper has six rods, and it blows to the booming", which, together with the dialect and the costumes, is an important symbol for distinguishing between the Miao clans. In Hmong legend, in ancient times, the world was not populated, the emperor sent his youngest daughter down to the earth to create all things.

After the creation of all things, one day two brothers, Jia and Fierce (i.e., cedar and bamboo), went up to the Heavenly Court to ask the Heavenly Emperor for a few pieces of equipment for people's entertainment. The daughter of the Heavenly Emperor, Gou Su, then cut off six of her own fingers and one of her arms and made a reed-pipe, and she herself died of bleeding to death.

The emperor was so sad that he gave the reed-song to two brothers, Jia and Fierce, and said, "This is your mother, and in the future you must go through her (permission) for everything, and she will bring you happiness." Since the Miao family got the lusheng, they have lived a stable, beautiful and happy life.

Almost every village of the Miao people generally has a hall (team) Lusheng, which is a sign of whether a village life is full and happy. In the Miao villages of Danzhai, Sandu, Rongjiang and Leishan in Guizhou, the lusheng team consists of six kinds of lushengs: large, medium-large, medium-sized, small and extra-small.

Mangtubes are different from other reedsongs in that they don't have six tubes, just a three- or four-foot-long garden tube with a small bamboo tube inserted into the tube, which is blown with a bamboo tube in its mouth, and the sound is low and mellow. Large reed sheng is the sheng mother, up to about two zhang, only blowing immobile, need two people to lift.