Top Ten Love Stories in Ancient China?

This beautiful, sad and touching love story has been circulated for many years in Shangyu, beside the Cao 'e River and at the foot of Shuailongshan Mountain.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in Zhujiazhuang, Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province, there was a beautiful and intelligent Mrs. Nv Ying who studied poetry with her brother since childhood, admired the talents of Ban Zhao and Cai Wenji, hated the lack of good teachers at home, and wanted to travel to Hangzhou. Zhu Yingtai, eager to learn, disguised himself as a fortune teller and said, "It's best to let your love go out according to the result of divination." I hope my father sees his daughter Joe disguised as a man, and there is no flaw. In order to disappoint her, he had to reluctantly agree. England and Taiwan Province disguised themselves as men and went to Hangzhou to study. On the way, I met Liang Shanbo, a scholar who came to Hangzhou from Huiji (now Shaoxing) to study. As soon as I saw him, I liked reading each other very much. On the Caoqiao Pavilion, I made a righteous knot in Jin Lan with a pinch of soil as incense. A day later, the two men came to Song Wan College in Hangzhou, where they were accepted as apprentices. From then on, students read * * *, and they were inseparable. Liang Zhu studied in the deep sea for three years. Yingtai loved Sambo deeply, but Sambo never knew he was a woman. She only cares about brotherhood and has no special feelings. I wish my father misses his daughter. I am in a hurry to return home, so Yingtai has to hurry home. Liang Zhu broke up and was reluctant to go. On the way to the 18-mile farewell, Yingtai kept borrowing things to caress and hint at love. Shan Bo is honest and simple, and he doesn't know why. Yingtai had no choice but to lie that her nine sisters looked exactly like herself and were willing to be a matchmaker for Shanbo. However, because Shanbo was poor, she couldn't come as scheduled. When Shanbo went to Jia Zhu to propose marriage, I was afraid that Zhu Fu had betrothed Yingtai to Ma Wencai, the son of Miancheng (now Yinxian). A happy marriage has become a shadow. The two met on the balcony, looked at each other with tears in their eyes and left sadly. When we leave, we make an oath: we must live together and die together! Later, Liang Shanbo was named Yin County (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City) by the imperial court. However, Sambo became depressed and died soon. He was ordered to be buried in the Kowloon Market in Yancheng. Yingtai heard the bad news of Shanbo and vowed to die. When Yingtai was forced to get married, she made a detour to worship Liang Shanbo's tomb. Under the guidance of Zhu Yingtai's mourning, the tomb burst, Yingtai jumped into the tomb, the tomb reunited, the wind stopped raining, the rainbow hung high, and Liang Zhu turned into a butterfly, flying in the world.

Niu Lang and Zhi Nu/Cowherd and the Weaver Maid

Cowherd and Weaver Girl is one of the most famous folklore in China, and the earliest story about stars in China. There is a passage in Shuo Wen Jie Zi written by Fang in the Northern and Southern Dynasties: "There are beautiful women in Hedong, the sons of the Emperor of Heaven, and sewing workers who work hard year after year to weave clothes of clouds and silks. Hard work is extremely unhappy, and the appearance is too messy to tidy up. God pitied him for being alone and married the morning glory in Hexi. Since then, the work of weaving has been abolished and greed has been achieved. When the emperor was angry, he was responsible for Hedong and held a meeting once a year. " This is an eternal love story, and it is one of the four folk love legends in China.

3. Legend of White Snake

The legend of the White Snake is one of the "Four Great Folklores" in ancient China. The legend of White Snake originated in the Northern Song Dynasty more than 1000 years ago, and its birthplace was at the foot of Heishan in Tangyin, Henan Province (now Hebi City, Henan Province) and Xujiagou Village on the bank of Qihe River.

Mount Braque, also known as Jinshan, Moshan and Dashan, which is supported by Xujiagou, was the land of Jizhou in ancient times and is one of the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain. Here the mountains overlap, the water circulates, the trees are lush, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the environment is quiet and peaceful. The Asian Games is a paradise. As early as the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Zuo Si recorded the love story of "an eyebrow matched with a calf" in Du Wei Fu: "A calf leads an ox to visit Montenegro, sometimes it is old and young, and sometimes it is ugly. Later, I married the girl with eyebrows, and they all left, so no one could chase her ... "Later, this allusion evolved into the story of" White Snake Made Xu Xian ",and the heroine of the story also evolved from" Girl with Eyebrows "to a white snake.

The white snake essence in The Legend of the White Snake Xu Xian was saved by an old man surnamed Xu in Xujiagou village from a black hawk. In order to repay the Xu family for saving his life, this white snake married Xu Xian, a descendant of the Xu family. After marriage, she often used herbs to treat villagers, which made the incense of Jinshan Temple nearby cold, and also made the elder "Fahai monk" of Jinshan Temple reincarnated by Black Hawk very angry and determined to destroy Xu Xian's marriage and kill "White Snake". So it leads to familiar plots such as "stealing fairy grass" and "flooding Jinshan Temple". Bai Niangzi touched the fetal air because of flooding Jinshan, and gave birth to her son Xu Shilin prematurely. Fahai took the opportunity to cover the newly born white snake with a "golden bowl" and suppressed it under the "Leifeng Tower" in Nanshan. Through this incident, Xu Xian became disheartened and became a monk to protect the pagoda and wait for his son under the "Leifeng Pagoda". 18 years later, Xu Shilin, the top student in high school, returned to his hometown to pay homage to his ancestors, only to save his mother and reunite his family.

4. everlasting regret

Song of Eternal Sorrow is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet in Tang Dynasty in China. This poem is the author's masterpiece and was written in 806 AD (the first year of Yuanhe). The whole poem vividly describes the love tragedy between Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. Poets use historical figures and legends to create stories of dispatched people, and reproduce the truth of real life through artistic images, which has infected readers for thousands of years. The theme of this poem is "Song of Eternal Sorrow".

5. The West Chamber

The Romance of the West Chamber originated from Yuan Zhen's legendary novel Yingying Biography in Tang Dynasty. It tells the story that Zhang Xun, a scholar, fell in love with Cui Yingying, the daughter of the late Guo Xiang, who also lived in Pujiu Temple. With the help of the maid matchmaker, they dated in the west wing, and Yingying finally committed herself. Later, Zhang Xun went to Beijing to take the exam, got a senior official, but abandoned Yingying, which led to a love tragedy. It is also said that Yuan Zhen wrote an autobiographical novel or story in the name of Zhang Sheng. This story spread more widely in the Song and Jin Dynasties, and some literati and folk artists adapted it into songs and operas. Many of Wang Shifu's zaju Romance of the West Chamber were created on the basis of such rich artistic accumulation.

In history, the good wish of "All lovers shall be well, jack shall have Jill" has become the theme of many literary works, and The West Chamber is the most successful drama depicting this theme.

6. Feng Qiuhuang

The Legend of Phoenix Seeking Phoenix is a guqin song written by Sima Xiangru, a writer in Han Dynasty, which tells the love story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun. Taking "phoenix seeking phoenix" as a perfect metaphor not only contains passionate courtship, but also symbolizes the extraordinary ideals, lofty purport and tacit understanding of the hero and heroine. The whole poem has shallow meaning, bright syllables and passionate feelings, which combines the beauty of Chu Ci with the freshness of Han folk songs. Even if it is a fake of later generations, it will not weaken its artistic value. There are many poems, novels, songs and movies of the same name in past dynasties.

7. Peacocks fly southeast

Peacock Flying Southeast is the first long narrative poem in the history of China literature, which Shen Guiyu called "the first long poem in ancient and modern times". Therefore, it is also called the longest long narrative poem in the ancient history of China and one of the glorious poems in the ancient folk literature of China. Peacock Flying Southeast and Mulan Ci in the Southern and Northern Dynasties are also called "Yuefu and Narrative Poetry". Later Peacock Flying Southeast, Mulan Poem and Wei Zhuang's Poem of Fu Qin in the Tang Dynasty were called "Three Wonders of Yuefu", which were adapted from a marriage tragedy that occurred in Lujiang County during the reign of Emperor Xian in the Eastern Han Dynasty (the county was a prefecture, and Hui County in Qian 'an at the end of the Han Dynasty was in Anhui Province).

Through the love tragedy of Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing, Peacock Flying Southeast accuses the evil of feudal ethics, paternalism and the concept of gate valve, and expresses the reasonable desire of young men and women for their independence in marriage and love. Liu Lanzhi, the heroine, is faithful to love and has an uncompromising struggle against feudal forces and feudal ethics, which makes her a rebellious female image in the history of literature and is praised by young men and women in later generations.

8. Fairy couple

Fairy Match is a traditional classic play of Huangmei Opera in Anqing. It's about Yong Dong selling herself to bury her father. The jade emperor's seventh daughter (seven fairies) expressed deep sympathy and went down to earth privately, and married Dong under the pagoda tree. One hundred days later, the Jade Emperor sent King Tota and four donkey kong to force the seven fairies to return to heaven, and the husband and wife reluctantly parted under the locust tree. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were stories about Yong Dong's filial piety in Cao Zhi's Lingzhi Pian and Gan Bao's Search for Ji Shen. Traditional China plays or their names are Brocade, Hundred Days Destiny and Huaiyin Tree. Huangmei opera is more influential. There are movies and TV series with the same name.

9. the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon

The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon is an ancient myth and one of the top ten ancient love stories in China.

How did Chang 'e fly to the moon? There are different versions in ancient books. According to Huai Nan Zi, Hou Yi went to the Queen Mother of the West to ask for the elixir, but Chang 'e stole all the elixir and fled to the moon. After the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, I soon regretted it. She remembered her husband's kindness to her at ordinary times and the warmth of the world. Compared with the loneliness on the moon, she felt desolate. "Eight chapters outside Huainanzi" said that Iraq invited the Queen Mother of the West to take the elixir of life and stole it after hearing about it. Stealing it didn't hurt Chang 'e, but in desperation, Chang 'e swallowed the elixir and flew to the sky. Because she couldn't bear to leave the village, Chang 'e stayed in the Moon Palace. Lonely in the Guanghan Palace, he urged WU GANG to cut down the osmanthus tree and let Yutu pound medicine, hoping to make it a soaring medicine, so that he could return to the world as soon as possible and reunite with Dayu.

10. A Dream of Red Mansions

A Dream of Red Mansions is one of the ancient Four Great Classical Novels in China, and it is a novel with many chapters. Written in 1784 (forty-nine years of Qing Qianlong). The official name of Preface to Master Meng Jue is A Dream of Red Mansions, and its original names are Stone Story, Love Monk Record, Treasure Mirror of Yue Feng, Twelve Women in Jinling, etc. It is the greatest novel in ancient China, and it is also one of the world literary classics. Author Cao Xueqin. At present, the sequel is A Dream of Red Mansions written by Gao E, with Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, and the love tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main line, focusing on describing the process of the prosperity and decline of Rong and Ning governments. It comprehensively describes the human world and all kinds of irreconcilable contradictions in the last days of feudal society.