What are the folk tales of China?

1. ****Gong angrily touched Buzhou Mountain

Water god ****Gong was the son of Zhu Rong, the grandson of Yan Emperor. He had a human face, snake body, red hair, and drove a black dragon, managing and controlling the oceans, rivers, and lakes that accounted for seven-tenths of the earth's surface area. After Zhuan Xu succeeded the Yellow Emperor on the throne, he implemented a strategy of governance that cut off heaven and earth, leaving the gods without any freedom and the people on the earth with a lot of grievances. The gods had no freedom, and the people on the earth were full of complaints. ***Workers rebelled and declared war on Zhuan Xu. Both sides fought on Buzhou Mountain. The Buzhou Mountain is one of the four pillars of the sky that Nuwa established when she chopped off the legs of the tortoise to mend the sky.

After fighting day and night for more than ten days, Zhuan Xu's army gradually lost strength. ****Worker at this time has killed red eyes, he roared, head to the Buzhou Mountain. Only heard a loud sound of the sky collapsing and the Buzhou Mountain snapped!

In a few moments, the north-western sky because of the loss of support and tilted down, the sun, moon and stars quickly to the west slipped, at the same time, the southeast of the earth's surface is also due to a huge vibration and collapsed, the water of the hundred rivers to the southeast of the water flow, the universe has changed from this point onwards, the formation of the sun, moon, stars orbit and the hundreds of rivers into the sea of the terrain.

2, the hundred birds towards the phoenix

A long time ago, the phoenix is just the appearance of a very common bird. But it had one advantage: it was very hardworking. It hid all the food it ate in its hole. One year, there was a great drought in the forest. The birds were so hungry that they were dizzy. At this time, the phoenix rushed to open the cave, and shared the food he had hidden with everyone.

After the drought, in order to thank the phoenix for saving their lives, the birds chose the most beautiful feather from their own bodies and plucked it out to make a brilliant coat for the phoenix, and unanimously elected it as the king of the birds. Afterwards, every time the phoenix birthday, birds from all directions will fly to the phoenix to express congratulations, this is the hundred birds towards the phoenix.

3, Yandi hit the stone fire

The earliest fire used by mankind was all natural fire. One man thought that mankind can not always rely on natural fire, so decided to create a way to get fire, in a hunting, he missed a stone javelin not hit the prey, but he found the javelin and the ground when the stones hit the sparks, so he picked up a lot of stones there to test, the results of the success of the fire.

Also because he discovered the method of obtaining fire, all the tribes unanimously embraced him as king, and this man was Yan Di, who was king by the virtue of fire. He then created a method of cultivation and taught mankind how to farm, so he was also known as Shennong.

4, Cowherd and Weaver

Cowherd and Weaver is a famous folk love story in ancient China. Legend has it that the ancient heavenly emperor's granddaughter, the Weaver, was good at weaving and weaving cloth, weaving colorful haze in the sky every day, she hated this boring life, so she secretly went down to the mortal world and married Cowherd of the West River, and lived the life of a man and a woman weaving.

This incident angered the Heavenly Emperor, who caught the Weaving Maiden back to the Heavenly Palace and ordered them to be separated, allowing them to meet only once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, on the Magpie Bridge. Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a magpie bridge with their bodies across the heavenly river, allowing the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden to meet each other on the heavenly river.

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "Tanabata", is said to be the day when the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet once a year on the "Magpie Bridge". This ancient and touching love story has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, and this day is also known as the Chinese version of "Valentine's Day" by modern people.

5, Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall

Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall is China's famous ancient folklore, which in the form of drama, ballads, poems, raps and so on, widely circulated, can be said to be a household name. Legend has it that during the time of Qin Shi Huang, when labor was heavy, the young man and woman Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu were newly married for three days, the groom was forced to set out to build the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold and exhaustion, and the bones of their corpses were buried under the wall of the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnu carried cold clothes, through the hardships, ten thousand miles to find her husband came to the Great Wall, but got the bad news of her husband. She cried for three days and three nights, and when the city crumbled, revealing Fan Xiliang's body, Meng Jiangnu threw herself into the sea in despair and died.

The legend of Meng Jiangnu weeping at the Great Wall is not only widely spread in Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Gansu, Hebei, Beijing, Henan, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places in China, but also known to the people in Japan, Russia and other countries, and has gradually formed a variety of legendary versions.