Classic Folklore Stories 5

Lu Ban Zhi Fu Slanted Pagoda

According to legend, Lu Ban was the smartest and most capable craftsman in ancient China. His original name was Gongbopan, and since he was a native of Lu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban became the name given to him by later generations.

Once, he came to the city of Gusu in the state of Wu, the paradise on earth, and it really lives up to its name. The ancient city buildings and towers, arranged in succession, teahouses and restaurants, bustling. Lu Ban traveled to the city, speculating on the characteristics of Suzhou's architecture, and was fascinated by it. Suddenly a burst of noisy noise came. Lu Ban looked at the sound, only to see a piece of green grass in front of the open field, towering over a newly built pagoda. In front of the tower surrounded by a group of people, noisy, do not know what to do. He slowly walked over, set aside the onlookers, saw an old man wearing satin, wearing a high crown, waist tie incense bag is angry, veins rippled, jaws vertical eyebrows, there is a gas rush bulls of the trend. The old man squatting opposite a middle-aged man, hands on the head, a look downcast. Lu Ban was so strange, an inquiry to know the truth of the matter.

The old man is a famous local rich man, in order to accumulate goodness and virtue, ready to build a pagoda, to be passed down through the ages.

This project was undertaken by the craftsman. Wooden build, carefully planned, after nearly three years of hard labor, the pagoda was finally completed. But I do not know how to get, although the pagoda was built, but no matter horizontal look, or vertical look, always tilted. After measurement, the pagoda is indeed tilted nearly ten degrees. People shook their heads at this and commented on it. The rich man thought that the tower against attracting criticism, very angry, but also undermined his merit, therefore, personally find the craftsman to settle accounts: either to push down and rebuild, or the pagoda right, otherwise, to be sent to the government to be severely punished.

This can be difficult to stop the craftsmen, if you want to push down to rebuild, they are selling their children, sell their children, all their money can not withstand the economic pressures; if the tower is correct, which can not be done, because the pagoda, although it is wooden, there are still about a million pounds, can only look at the tower sigh!

Lu Ban looked around the pagoda carefully, and looked at the artisan at a loss, went over to comfort: "You do not worry, as long as you give me to find some wood to, I do not need a month to put it right!"

The craftsman heard, half believing, but there is no other way. So he carried the wood and waited with a glimmer of hope. And Lu Ban it, he did not let people intervene to help, will carry the wood cut into many oblique small wedge, piece by piece from the top of the tower tilt side inward knock, so that the tilt side slowly raised. So banging and banging, morning and night work for a month, the pagoda really upright.

The craftsman gratefully asked Lu Ban: "Mr. En, why can you make the pagoda upright by this remedy?"

Lu Ban replied: "Because the leaning tower is wooden, is the structure of through the bucket, the pull between the components is relatively strong, can form an organic whole, so you can use the method of playing wooden wedges to correct. And the wooden wedge is slanted, both relatively easy to hit inward, with 'four two pounds' role, hit in and can raise the height of the tower's inclined plane, so that the tower is no longer tilted."

Classic Folklore Tales 2

The story of Wangfushi Stone

Once upon a time there was a fisherman called Hailang, one day, he followed the guys to go fishing, the day there is an unpredictable storm, suddenly cloudy gusts of the sea roar, the wind blowing the day, the guys were the big waves tumbled in the depths of the sea, only the fortunate Hailang did not die, he lay on a piece of rotten planks, fainted and died. He lay on a piece of rotten board, fainted, the sea when the board is a ball, push and push, and eventually drifted to a place called Shangchuan Island, Hailang alone in this lonely island.

One day, he came out for a walk, saved a small grouper on the shore, and released, it turned out that the small grouper is the daughter of the sea dragon, the small grouper decided to turn into a human being to live next to the brother of the sea Lang, with the wind and day one day, the small grouper into a thought that the smart and beautiful girl.

The little grouper came to the door of the sea Lang brother's room, the sea Lang came out, looked at it, said: "This girl who you are, and how you drift to this lonely island?" Little Grouper: "Do you remember that you saved a little grouper by the sea?" "I remember," said the wave. "That was me, I'm the daughter of the Sea Dragon King, and I wanted to thank you for saving me."" Daughter of the Sea Dragon King." Hai Lang said in surprise.

Then, the two of them slowly made up, and finally sunk married, the two of them lived a happy life, and had a fat doll, called Fanlong, very cute.

But the happy life could not last long, the King of the Sea Dragon went out and came back everywhere to find his daughter, inquired about him and a person called the waves of the sea to live together, was furious, and then turned into an old man full of white hair, came to Hailang's home to scold, but also said: "Daughter, if you do not come with me, I'm going to call the Hailang worse than death, I'll give you three days to think about it. "

Three days passed, the king of the sea dragon stayed in the shrimp soldiers and crab generals came to Hailang's house, Hailang and the little grouper are not willing to separate, the king of the sea dragon ordered the shrimp soldiers and crab generals to take Hailang away, the little grouper holding the mortal dragon out of the door, climbed a high mountain, looking at Hailang far away, shedding tears, and finally, the little grouper and the mortal dragon turned into a stone, we all call it "lookout for the stone". "

Classic Folklore Tales 3

Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant

In ancient times, there was a smart kid named Cao Chong. Once, someone gave Cao Cao an elephant. Cao Cao was curious to know how much the elephant weighed, so he asked his officials to find a way to weigh the elephant.

This was a difficult task! Elephants are the largest animals on land, how to weigh it? In those days there was no such a big scale, and people were not so strong to lift the elephant up. The officials were all worried around the elephant, and no one could think of a way to weigh it. It was at this time that a little child ran out, stood up to the adults and said, "I have a way, I have a way!" The officials took a look and realized that it was Cao Cao's youngest son, Cao Chong, whose mouth was silent, but in his heart he was thinking, "Hmph! Adults can not think of a way, a small child of five or six years old, what will be the solution!

But don't look down on children, this little Cao Chong is a solution. The first time I saw him, I was so happy to see that he was able to get his hands dirty. His father said, "You have a solution, tell us."

Cao Chong said, "I'll show you, and you'll understand."

He called for an elephant and followed him to the river. His father and the officials wanted to see how he weighed it, so they followed him to the river.

There was an empty boat at the river's edge, and Cao Chong said, "Take the elephant and put it on the boat."

The elephant got into the boat, and the boat sank a bit. Cao Chong said, "Qi water surface in the boat on the gangway to draw a mark." After the marking, Cao Chong and asked people to bring the elephant to shore. At this time, the boat is empty, the boat will float up some.

Everyone watched as the elephant was led up to the boat, and then down to the boat, and said, "What trick is this boy playing?"

Next Cao Chong told the men to pick up the stones and load them onto the big boat, and after picking up load after load, the big boat slowly sank down again.

"All right, all right!" Cao Chong saw the mark on the ship's gang flush with the water, so he called for the stones to be picked off the ship again, load after load. At this time, everyone understands: the stone loaded on the boat and the elephant loaded on the boat, that the boat sinks to the same mark, visible, the stone and the elephant is the same weight; and then these stones weighed, the weight of all the stones added up, the total sum obtained is not the weight of the elephant? Everyone said, this looks simple, but if it is not Cao Chong do to show everyone, adults really can not think of it. The first time I saw this, I was so happy to see it.

Classic Folklore Stories4

Ye Gong Hao Long

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Shen Zhu Liang in the State of Chu, who was called Ye Gong because his father's fiefdom was in Ye Di, and he inherited his father's fiefdom.

The Duke of Ye had a great hobby, he especially liked dragons. He believed that animals like dragons were symbols of outstanding talents, and that they could ride the clouds, call the winds and rain, and move up to the sky and down to the earth, with infinite variations. He worshipped the dragon, he invited all over the skilled craftsmen, in the columns, windows and doors are carved on the dragon, the walls are painted on the dragon, the house furniture and all kinds of decorations are used in the dragon's pattern, even hooks, chisels, these handy utensils are made into the shape of dragons, in a word, his home everywhere is a dragon.

Ye Gong lived in these dragons all day long, he appreciated the dragons to the rice can forget to eat, if someone with him to talk about the topic of dragons, he was always colorful, gushing. If he heard that there was a well-painted or well-sculpted dragon, he would go to see it no matter how far away it was, and would buy it no matter how much money it cost. He loved dragons so much that the whole of Chu knew about it.

The true dragon in the sky was very touched by the news, and it thought, "There has never been anyone in the world who likes me as much as Lord Ye, and he worships even my image, so what would it be like to see me in my true form?" Thinking of this the True Dragon decided to take a trip to Ye Gong's house to see for himself.

One day, after a violent storm, followed by rolling clouds and lightning. The true dragon in the sky came to Ye Gong's house. It first lay down on the window and looked in, and then dragged its tail to the hall of Lord Ye's house. When the true dragon saw that Duke Ye's house was indeed full of dragon patterns, it secretly marveled in its heart, "What a lover of dragons, it is indeed true to its name!!!"

The real dragon is not as small as the one carved and painted on the pillar, but a huge thing. The body and tail of the real dragon crossed the hall, wagging its head and tail, swallowing clouds and spitting out mist, and its divine power was vibrant. At this time, Ye Zhenghao came out of the room, wearing clothes embroidered with dragons and shoes embroidered with dragons on his feet, holding a wine cup in his hand, admiring the dragons carved on it as he walked. As he walked down the hall, he was startled to see the dragon's tail dragging on the floor, and hastily looked up to see that it was a real dragon! Ye Gong's face changed dramatically when he saw it, and he was so frightened that he dropped his wine glass and ran away while shouting, "No good! Help! The dragon is coming!" Then, he drilled into his bedroom under the bed, and never dared to come out.

The real dragon saw Ye Gong's appearance, and heard him shouting, and was very disappointed, thinking: "So you love the dragon is a fake ah! The dragon you love is just a carved fake dragon, and it is not a preference for the real dragon, but a fear of it!" Then the real dragon took a long leap into the sky and never appeared again from then on.

Classic Folklore Tales 5

The legend has it that one of the Eight Immortals, Lv Dongbin, was actually a Confucian student who lost out on his studies and abandoned Confucianism for Taoism at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Lv Dongbin had a friend from his hometown named Gou Dim. Gouxin's parents were dead and he was alone. Seeing his difficulties, Lu Dongbin made him a brother and invited him to live in his house. He hoped that Gouxin would study hard. He hoped that Gouxin would study hard, so that he could have a chance to make a name for himself in the future. Gouxin was very grateful, remembered the words of Lu Dongbin, and studied hard all day long.

One day, Lu Dongbin's house came to a guest surnamed Lin, he saw Gou Xing a talented, study hard, he told Lu Dongbin that he wanted to betroth his sister to Gou Shen. Lv Dongbin was afraid that Gouxin's future would be jeopardized, so he politely declined. However, when Gou Dim learned of this, he was moved, but because he depended on Lv Dongbin for food and shelter, and Lv Dongbin had pushed back the matter, what could he do about it. Lv Dongbin knew Gouxin's meaning, said to him: "Miss Lin's talent and appearance, have heard of, since you want to marry, I do not stand in the way, but after the marriage, I want to stay with the mother for three days." Gouxin heard not feel stunned, but after thinking about it, or gritted his teeth and agreed.

On the day of the wedding, all the ceremonies were completed. When the lamp, because there is a former promise, Gouxin will introduce the bride into the cave room after hiding, the cave room is left in the bride alone. At this time, Lu Dongbin into the cave, do not speak only to sit at the table under the lamp, buried in reading. At the beginning of the bride to see the groom so hard to read, good like. But wait until midnight or so, really have no choice but to sleep with their clothes. Wake up in the morning, "husband" has long been gone. Another two nights, are like this. Ms. Lin secretly sad tears, do not know why the groom.

Three nights later, Gouxin stepped into the new room, he saw the mother is full of tears, and hastened to go forward to make amends. The bride just bowed her head and cried, "Why is the groom three nights do not **** bed with sleep, just read, dark and come, day and go?" This question, asked Gouxumu dazed, half a day to come to their senses, feet stomped, laughed at the sky: "The original brother was afraid that I was greedy for pleasure, forget to read, it is used to motivate me, but the heart is also too hard some!" Then said this to the bride before and after. From then on, Gouximin stabbed the beam, study hard. The capital to take the examination, and indeed the gold list as a big official.

After eight or nine years, one day Lv Dongbin's house accidentally caught fire, in addition to people, everything was reduced to ashes. In order to live, Lu Dongbin had to beg along the road, came to Gouxin's residence to ask for help. After listening to Gouxin, he said to Lu Dongbin, "Please don't worry about everything, I have my own proper arrangements." Ten days passed, except for the daily feast, Gou Dim did not talk about how to help Lu Dongbin. After some more days, it was still the same. Lu Dongbin suspected that Gouxin was not willing to help. After a few more days, Lu Dongbin couldn't hold back any longer, so he proposed to go home, but Gouxin only advised him to enjoy a few more days of happiness. Lv Dongbin said indignantly: you can enjoy the blessings. He said, "I don't want to be a part of this," he said.

The penniless Lu Dongbin had to beg along the road again, back to his hometown. On the way, met a sympathetic to his situation, gave him some silver, so that he arrived home early. But when he arrived at the village, he could not find his home. A neighbor told him: your family has built a new house and moved to the east of the village. Lu Dongbin came to the new house in the east of the village, and saw his wife was fully clothed in mourning, holding a coffin and howling. He was shocked, stunned for half a day, before gently called out to the mother. The mother twisted around to see, terrified, suspected of ghosts and monsters, after Lv Dongbin explained before believing.

Lv Dongbin asked his wife, the gas smashed open the coffin, only to see all the gold and silver treasures, above, there is also a letter, take out a look, it says: "Gouxin is not a negative groom, the road to send the silver, the home to build a house, you let my wife to guard the empty room, I let your wife cry broken!" Lv Dongbin read, as if waking up from a dream, y regret that they do not know good people, wrong Gouxin, he smiled bitterly and said: "Xian Di, you help this, can help me good ruthless ah!"

Since then, the dog bites (Gouximin) Lvdongbin - do not know the good people, it is spread in the folk.

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