Four traditional Chinese love stories

The Four Greatest Traditional Love Stories in China: Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

Xu Xian and the White Lady

Meng Jiangnu

The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden Alternatively: Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

Xu Xian and the White Lady

Liu Yi Zhuanshu

Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals Meng Jiangnu from Meng Jiangnu" comes from the Chinese folktale "Meng Jiangnu Weeps at the Great Wall". She was a woman from the state of Qin. On her wedding night, her husband Fan Xiliang was taken away to build the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu traveled thousands of miles to bring her husband warm clothes and took a long time to reach the Great Wall, but in the end, she was told that her husband was dead and his body was buried under the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu cried so loudly that she eventually cried down the Great Wall and found her husband's body. Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" is one of the best legends circulating in China's folk history. The Weaving Maiden was the granddaughter of the Heavenly Emperor in Chinese mythology, whose job was to weave clouds, and later privately descended to the earth to unite with the Cowherd, when the Queen Mother of the West found out about it, she made a stroke with her hairpin, and a celestial river (i.e., the Milky Way) appeared between the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden separating the two of them. Only on the seventh day of the seventh month (lunar calendar) can they meet each other once a year on the Magpie Bridge (a bridge built by magpies). The saying that Cowherd and Weaving Maiden meet on July 7 every year has become our present-day folk belief of the Tanabata Festival