What are the ancient Chinese folk traditions about the lotus?

Legend has it that a long time ago there was a lotus pond in a village, which was filled with beautiful lotus flowers year after year. In the east of the pond lived a man named Hong, his family was very rich, but in his forties he had no children. This year, his wife became pregnant, and he burned incense and prayed to the Buddha day and night, asking him to bless him with a son.

But the baby was a girl. The woman's wife, in order to comfort the man, said, "I don't know what to do, but I'm sorry. His wife, in order to comfort him, discussed with him about raising the girl as a son, telling people that she had a boy, and naming the child Sai Lang. Later, Sailang grew up and dressed like a boy. When he was twelve years old, Mr. Hong built a bookstore in front of the lotus pond and invited a familiar teacher to teach Sailang how to read. The public thought that Sailang was a boy.

Again, there is a family named Bai living on the west side of the pond, and the old couple is doing well, but they don't have a son. His wife had three sons. All did not live past the age of death. For this old white has been several times to find people fortune-telling, said they are "life without children". This year, his wife is pregnant again. Old Bai thought: "Daughters can still live, if you give birth to a boy to be afraid to keep. His wife then thought of a way: "If a son is born, just raise him as a daughter, and he will not die again." Later, a son was born, and the couple put an earring on the child and named him Zhenniang. Zhenniang grew up to be thirteen years old, and dressed up more beautifully than a girl. The old couple loved their son and tried to pay for her education. When they heard that Mr. Hong's family in the east village had established a library, they begged for favors and paid Mr. Hong two buckets of rice a month to send Zhenniang to school. Everyone thought that she was a girl. Zhenniang to the school, and more than a dozen children get along well, especially and Sailang more good, every day at school in a desk to read, the two to play in the lotus pond for a while before parting to go home. Classmates see the two so close, one day, while the teacher is not there, they play, to Sai Lang, Zhenniang worship flowers, who do not know Sai Lang is female, Zhenniang is male. Sailang also thought that Zhenniang was really a girl, and Zhenniang thought that Sailang was really a boy.

A few years passed. Sailang was already fifteen years old, and Zhenniang was sixteen. The two people often think of when they first enrolled in school to worship the flower hall to, Sailang thought: Zhenniang this person is smart and amiable, talent and good, who will marry her as a wife, really happy. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers, and the company is committed to providing the best possible service to its customers.

After two more years, the students were about to leave. Sai Lang said to Zhen Niang, "I'm afraid we won't be able to see each other again," and burst into tears. She said, "Don't be sad, Sailang's brother. My home is not far from yours, so we can come and go often." But Sailang knew in his heart: he was getting old, and from now on he would be locked up by his parents in his boudoir and would not be able to go out; besides, he and Zhenniang would have to get married, and who knew where to do so? She said to Zhenniang, "Let's become sisters!" Zhenniang thought, "Wouldn't it be a joke for two men to become sisters? She shook her hand, "No, no, no, let's be brothers!" After arguing for half a day, they finally said, "Forget it, it's better to be sworn brothers!" In this way, two people muddled in the lotus pond worship.

Sai Lang went home and changed into women's clothes, stayed in the boudoir all day, and often missed Zhen Niang. The first time I saw a woman, I was in my room, and I was always thinking about her," he said. When her father, Lao Bai, got sick and died, her mother asked her to take off her earrings and change into men's clothes, so that she could dress Lao Bai in mourning and send him to the ground. Until then, the whole village did not know that Zhenniang was a man. When the news reached Mr. Hong's house, Sai Lang was shocked and delighted. The surprise is, the same wealth for many years did not know that he is a man in; happy is, met the chastity of such a dear person. However, Hong heard the news was actually very angry, called the mother of Zhenniang called, scolded her face to face: "Your family raised a son, who will rob you, why male disguised as a woman to my library to study, all day with Sailang together, spoiled my family style! Zhenniang's mother was confused: "My family Zhenniang and Sailang together, what is there to spoil the family style?" The wife of the officer said, she realized that the original Sai Lang is a woman, also can not help but eat a shock. Another thought, the Hong family is really unreasonable, then also said angrily: "your girl can dress up as a man to study, why my boy can not dress up as a woman to study?" Mr. Hong had nothing to say in reply, and ordered Zhenniang's mother to be thrown out of the gate.

Zhenniang was so happy to hear her mother say that Sailang was a woman that she was determined to marry her. Her mother knew that the Hong family would not agree and refused to find a matchmaker, so Jeongnyeo moped around all day.

After a few days, a letter arrived from the Hong family's maid, and when she opened it, it was from Sai Lang. The letter said that she was locked in the boudoir by her parents, how she missed Zhenniang; and also said that she knew that Zhenniang was a man, how happy she was. Zhenniang read the letter, know Sai Lang treat him with intention, happy, busy wrote a letter back, told the maid to take back. From then on, the two people make you to and from each other to send letters.

One night, Zhenniang again asked her mother to matchmaker to propose marriage, mother's heart ached for her son, agreed to try. I didn't expect the matchmaker to be driven back before entering the Hong family's door. The matchmaker said to her, "You've got to give up your heart! The officer said, first of all, you are too poor to support his daughter, and secondly, you two were classmates, and now marrying you would be 'no private cons' and dishonor the good family style." Zhenniang see things can not succeed, sadness into a disease; his mother anxious in the side of the day and night crying. Besides, Sai Lang heard that the Bai family had been rejected by their parents, and he was so anxious that he fell ill. In order to make his daughter die, he secretly asked someone to drive the Bai family out of the village. Sai Lang heard this news, so angry that even do not eat. The company's website has been updated with the latest information about the company's website.

Again, the mother was driven out of the village by the Hong family and moved to the city forty miles away. After a short time, the mother's illness is a little better, but his mother is sick again, the body is not as good as a day, the mother only rely on the daily small business to maintain a living. After a few months, his mother died. After burying her, she decided to go back to her village to find Sai Lang. He sold his family's belongings, made some flowers and threads and other goods, packed them into a bundle, dressed up as a seller, and returned to the village, where he lived in a broken temple.

One day, he shook the rattle in his hand and sneaked around to the back garden of Hong's house. Sai Lang's maid heard the drums and came out to buy flowers and threads, and when she saw that it was Zhen Niang, she was pleasantly surprised, and rushed in to tell Sai Lang. Sai Lang then wrote a letter and asked the maid to give it to Zhen Niang, telling him to get out of here quickly. Zhenniang ran back to the temple, opened it, it turns out that Sailang asked him to meet in the lotus pond tonight at three o'clock. She was so happy that she looked forward to the darkness.

At three o'clock, by the lotus pond, Sai Lang and Zhen Niang met and hugged their heads and cried. The two of them were in the middle of the night, and they were in the middle of the night, and they were in the middle of the night, and they were in the middle of the night. I hope you take care of your health and don't worry about me anymore." After saying this, he jumped into the water. Zhenniang stepped forward and hugged her, crying, "We can't be together in life, but we'd rather die together." After saying this, the two hugged and jumped into the water together.

The maid waited until the rooster crowed and did not see Sai Lang back, knowing that something was wrong, and did not dare to say anything. The next day, the Hong family up and down all over the search, find the lotus pond, see there is Sai Lang an embroidered shoe, know is jumped into the water. Mr. Hong hurriedly ordered people to salvage it, only to see Zhenniang, Sailang two people hugging each other, a few people try to pull but can not pull away. The two of them were buried in the lotus pond.

That night, we heard thunder and lightning, and there was a storm. When daybreak came, the water in the lotus pond rose up to the graves of Zhenniang and Sailang, and surrounded the graves: lotus flowers grew on the graves, and the stems of the flowers were thicker than a person's thumb. On the top of the two flowers, a red and a white, close together, people called it "and stick lotus", and later called "and Tidi Tidi".

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Jin Dynasty Taihe year (1201-1208) there is a pair of lovers, resistance to arranged marriages, both into the lotus pond martyrdom. Perhaps their true feelings of God, that year, the pond was full of Lotus ......

Lotus and orange root tree change residence

According to legend, the Lotus was once grown on land, while the orange root tree is born in the water. The two often visit each other and talk to each other, and they became very close confidants, so they became the same year.

One day, when they talked about their residence, the orange-root tree thought that he was often drowned in the water, very miserable, and the idea of changing residence with the Lotus, and then said to the Lotus: "the same year, I live in the place, no matter how the drought will not be affected, you suffer from drought every day, I am really sad, so. I'm sorry to see you suffer from drought every day, so let's switch places!

At that time, Lian was a bit reluctant and said, "Although the drought can be avoided at your place, I'm afraid that you will have to suffer from blisters when it rains in the cloudy days, right?"

The orange-root tree, fearing that Lian would be reluctant, hastened to say, "It won't be, you have a big leaf on top of your head, and it's completely defensible."

Lian hesitated when he heard this, he thought for a moment and said, "Then let's switch for a while. If I don't feel right living here, we'll still have to switch back, okay?"

The orange-root tree wanted to switch with Lian as soon as possible, and seeing that Lian was still reluctant, he swore to Lian and said, "Yes, yes! That's for sure! If you live in my place after feeling unsuitable, we can completely switch back, if I do not go back to the original place of residence, then in the future, let the sky blow a gale blow off my leaves."

Seeing that the orange-root tree spoke so earnestly and swore, the lotus switched to live in the water, and the orange-root tree moved to the land.

When Lotus came to live in the water, she felt very sad about being submerged in the water, so she asked the orange-root tree to change back to her original place. At this time, the orange root tree insisted on refusing to change, and turn the other cheek, said fiercely: "Outrageous! If you don't like to change it, you could not change it a long time ago. Now that you have changed it, why do you regret it? No way! No way!"

Lian heard this, and knew that he had fallen for the orange-root tree, but there was nothing he could do, because the orange-root tree was on land and refused to move, so it had to remain in the water. Because it was so flooded, and had no other way, it had to do its best to burrow into the mud to hide, so now the roots of the lotus are hidden in the mud.

The orange-root tree, because it swore and then went back on its word, has until now had to lose its leaves when the wind blows.