Short Folk Tales

Short folk tales include "Hou Yi Shoots the Sun", "Jing Wei Fills the Sea", "Quafu Chases the Sun", "Sima Guang Smashes the Cylinder", and "Yugong Yishan".

1. Hou Yi Shoots the Sun

A long, long time ago, the emperor of heaven had ten sons, and every day one of them would be on duty to bring warmth and light to the earth and make people live joyfully. Suddenly one day, ten suns appeared in the sky. Originally, it was fun to be on duty, and often something fun would happen, and all ten sons of the Heavenly Emperor would be on duty.

The ten suns baked the earth like a great furnace, the forests caught fire, the rivers dried up, the people were hungry, the heatstroke was heatstroke, and the number of deaths increased. The ten suns were happy, but the people suffered.

After that, everyone understands the divine archer - Hou Yi appeared, the original Hou Yi saw people screaming and suffering, so he was ready to shoot the sun down, he stood on a towering mountain peaks pick up the bow, and from behind to bring an arrow, only to hear the "Boom, Boom, Boom .... ..." and nine suns fell.

As he was about to shoot the tenth sun, he thought to himself, "If I shoot the tenth sun down, then there will be darkness in heaven and earth! So he threw away the last arrow.

2. "The Filling of the Sea by Jingwei"

The story of "The Filling of the Sea by Jingwei" is from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", a strange book of ancient China. According to legend, the sun god Yan Di had two daughters, the name of the eldest daughter was Yao Ji, and the name of the youngest daughter was Nuwa.

Because of the boredom of living in the Palace of Heaven for a long time, one day, the female child drowned in the East China Sea in a boat, and its uneven elves into a flower head, white beak and shell, red claws of a bird, perched in the Hatchet Mountain, issued a "Jingwei, Jingwei" of the lamentation, and the people will be called this bird Jingwei bird. The bird flew from Mount Hatake to the East China Sea, vowing to fill the East China Sea with grass and stones.

3, "Quafu chasing the sun"

The story of "Quafu chasing the sun" first came from the Chinese pre-Qin wonders of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which is said to be in the era of the Yellow Emperor's dynasty, one of the chiefs of the Quafu tribe wanted to remove the sun and put it into the hearts of people, and so began to chase the sun.

After he had dried up the Yellow River and the Wei-Wei water when he was thirsty, he prepared to go north to the Great Lake (or the sea) to drink, and died of thirst while running in the path of the Great Zephyr. His walking stick was transformed into Denglin, which became a peach blossom garden for human beings, while his body was transformed into Mount Kuazu.

4, "Sima Guang Smashed the Cylinder"

Sima Guang was a well-known politician and historian of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was smart and studious from a young age, and he was witty and brave. When Sima Guang was a child, he often played with his friends in the backyard, where there was a rockery, and under the rockery there was a big water tank filled with water all the year round.

When Sima Guang was seven years old, he and his friends played hide-and-seek in the backyard as usual. A little friend ran to the rockery to hide, but accidentally, his feet slipped, "flop" fell into the big water tank. The vat was so deep that a child would have drowned if he had fallen in.

The other children were terrified when they saw their partner fall into the tank. Some of them cried out in fear, while others immediately ran outside to get help from adults.

Only Sima Guang was so calm that he picked up a big stone from the ground and smashed it into the vat. The water tank was broken with a bang, and the water in the tank quickly flowed out, and the little ones who fell into the tank were saved. Sima Guang immediately became famous, and the story of him smashing the tank to save others has been passed down to this day.

5, "Yugong Yishan"

A long time ago, there was an old man in the northern mountains whose name was Yugong. There were two big mountains in front of his house, one was called Taihang Mountain and the other was called Wang Mountain. He felt that these two big mountains blocked the way out of his house and made it very inconvenient for him to go in and out every day. When Yugong was ninety years old, he called his children and grandchildren before him and talked with them about wanting to remove these two big mountains.

The children and grandchildren heard his idea and all agreed with him. The next day, the family went out with hoes. All the family, young and old, went to dig up the mountain, and the earth and stones they dug down were carried to Bohai Bay to be dumped.

The family's constant work touched many people along the way. So the emperor sent two of Qua's sons to help Yugong remove the mountain. They carried one mountain to the east of Shuo, and one mountain to the south of Yong, no longer blocking the door of Yugong's house.