What are some Chinese folk tales?

1, "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden"

"Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" is a famous folk love story in ancient China. Legend has it that in ancient times, the granddaughter of the Heavenly Emperor, the Weaving Maiden, was good at weaving and weaving fabrics, weaving colorful haze in the sky every day. She hated this boring life, so she secretly went down to the mortal world and married the Cowherd of the west of the river to lead the life of a man cultivating a farm 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 for 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.

2, "Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall"

It is a famous folk legend in ancient China, which has been widely circulated in the form of dramas, ballads, poems, raps and so on, and it 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 their bones 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, etc., but also well known to the people of Japan, Russia and other countries, and has gradually formed a variety of legendary versions.

3. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

The story is about the Western Jin Dynasty, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, who had been in the same classroom for three years, but failed to see her daughter's body. Before his death, Liang Shanbo asked his family to bury himself by the roadside where Zhu Yingtai's wedding sedan chair passed by, so that he could see Zhu Yingtai getting married. Zhu Yingtai was informed of this, and dressed in mourning attire for her wedding, and when she passed Liang Shanbo's grave, she proposed to get out of the sedan chair to pay her respects, and she crashed to death in front of a willow tree before anyone could take advantage of the situation.

The Legend of Liang Zhu is the most radiant oral heritage art in China, and the only Chinese folklore that has had a wide impact in the world.

Often people call "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" the "Romeo and Juliet of the East" --- however, the same embodiment of the human spirit of fidelity to love However, the "Liang Zhu", which also embodies the spirit of human love and fidelity, is not only thousands of years older than "Luo Zhu", but also has much more vivid twists and turns in the story.