China's four great folk love stories what ah?

The four great folk love legends: "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", "Meng Jiangnu", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "The Legend of the White Snake"

Cowherd and Weaving Maiden

The Tanabata Festival has always been connected to the legend of the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, this is a very beautiful, ancient love story, which became one of the four great folk love legends of China.

Legend has it that a long time ago, in Nanyang, west of the city of Niujiazhuang, there is a smart, loyal young man, his parents died a long time ago. Loyal young man, parents died early, had to follow his brother and sister-in-law to live, sister-in-law Ma's vicious, often abused him, forcing him to do a lot of work, one year in the fall, sister-in-law forced him to go to the cattle, gave him nine cows, but let him wait for ten cows before he could go home, Niu Lang had no choice but to drive the cattle out of the village. Cowherd drove the cows alone into the mountains, in the mountains with deep grass and dense forests, he sat under a tree and was sad, wondering when he would be able to drive the ten cows home. At that time, an old man with white hair appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad, and when he learned what had happened to him, he laughed and said, "Don't be sad, there's a sick old cow in the FuNiu Mountain, go and feed it well, and after it gets well, you will be able to drive the cow to the mountain. When it gets well, you can drive it home. Cowherd crossed the mountains and traveled a long way and finally found the sick old ox. Seeing that the old ox was very sick, he went to fetch bundles of grass for the old ox and fed it for three days in a row. The old ox ate well before he raised his head and told him: he was originally the Gray Ox Immortal in the sky, who was relegated to the lower part of the sky for violating heaven's rules and who broke his leg and couldn't move it. Their own injuries need to be washed with the dew of a hundred flowers for a month to be well, Cowherd braved the hard work, carefully cared for the old cow for a month, during the day for the old cow to pick flowers to catch the dew to cure the injury, and at night snuggled up next to the old age to sleep, to the old cow is well, Cowherd drove the ten cows back to the home in high spirits. After returning home, his sister-in-law still treated him badly, and tried to harm him several times, but the old ox managed to save him, and his sister-in-law finally drove the cowherd out of the house, and the cowherd only wanted the old ox to follow him. One day, the heavenly Weaving Maiden and all the nymphs came down to the earth to play games, bathing in the river, the cowherd in the old cow's help to know the Weaving Maiden, the two of them mutual love, and then Weaving Maiden secretly came down to earth, to be the wife of the cowherd. The Weaving Maiden also distributed the heavenly silkworms brought from the sky, and taught everyone to raise silkworms, draw silk, and weave light and bright satin. After the marriage of Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, the man plowed and the woman weaved with deep love and affection, and they gave birth to a boy and a girl with two children, and the family lived happily ever after. But the good times do not last long, this will soon let the emperor know, the Queen Mother herself came down to earth, forcibly brought the weaving girl back to heaven, the loving couple was broken up. There was no way for Cowherd to go to heaven, but the old ox told Cowherd that after his death, he could make shoes from his skin and wear them to heaven. Cowherd did according to the words of the old cow, wearing shoes made of cowhide, pulling their own children, together with the clouds and fog to the sky to chase the weaving woman, seeing that we are about to catch up with, I do not know that the Queen Mother pulled down the head of the golden hairpin a wave, a rough river in the sky appeared, Cowherd and the weaving woman was separated on both sides of the river, can only be relative to the weeping and tears. Their faithful love moved the magpies, millions of magpies flew, built a magpie bridge, so that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on the magpie bridge to meet, the Queen Mother had no choice but to allow the two in the seventh day of the seventh month of every year in the magpie bridge. Later, every seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, according to legend, the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden magpie bridge meeting day, the girls will come to the flowers under the moon, look up at the stars, looking for the Milky Way on both sides of the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden stars, hoping to see them meet once a year, begging God to let their own like Weaving Maiden as dexterous, praying for their own can be as good as the heart of the marriage, which has formed the Tanabata Festival. Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall

The legend of Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall,

happened at the foot of the Great Wall in northern Hebei province, and has been passed down in folklore for thousands of years. Legend has it that during the Qin Dynasty, there was a family named Meng in the south of the Yangtze River, and that the two old men were childless and dependent on each other for their lives. Meng's next-door neighbors were the Jiang family, and coincidentally, the Jiang family was also an old couple with no children. One spring, Grandpa Meng planted a gourd seed under the wall. Soon the seed sprouted and grew leaves. After some days, the gourd vine grew along the wall and climbed to the yard of the Jiang family next door. At this time, a white flower bloomed on the gourd vine. When the flower gave up, it produced a small, fluffy gourd. Grandpa Meng fertilized and watered the gourd on this side, while Grandpa Jiang caught worms and built a frame on the other side. In the fall, the zucchini grew into a big, big zucchini, so heavy that it bent the vine. Grandpa Meng said to Grandpa Jiang, "The gourd has grown so big thanks to your hard work. Let's cut it open and have half of one family." When they opened the gourd, a strange thing happened: the gourd sleeping in a white fat little girl! The Meng family and the Jiang family, not to mention how happy. The two families discussed, to the gourd born in the girl named "Meng Jiangnu". Year after year, Meng Jiangnu quickly grew up. She was smart and clever, and loved to work, either spinning and weaving, or washing and cooking. At that time, Emperor Qin Shi Huang was arresting people to build the Great Wall. One day, a young man named Fan Xiliang passed by Meng Jiangnu's house to escape arrest by the government. Grandpa Meng and Grandpa Jiang saw that this young man was loyal and simple, so they married Meng Jiangnu to him. Just three days after the marriage, Fan Xiliang was caught by the government and taken to the north to build the Great Wall. Spring and fall, Fan Xiliang was gone for more than half a year without news. Meng Jiangnu was thinking of Fan Xiliang, seeing that winter was coming, how could she spend the winter without cotton clothes in the north? So, she used her own hand-woven cloth to make a thick cotton coat for her husband. Cotton clothes done, Meng Jiangnu backpack, take the umbrella, on the road to send her husband to the cotton clothes. Along the way, Meng Jiangnu thousands of miles, after all the hardship, finally came to the foot of the Great Wall. See groups of workers, some carrying large and heavy bricks, some carrying stones, to the high mountain slopes, climbing hard. Their clothes are tattered, sweating. After several days of searching and inquiring, Meng Jiangnu realized that her husband, Fan Xiliang, had died of exhaustion! His corpse was buried in the city wall. When Meng Jiangnu heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue. She was so sad that she cried at the foot of the Great Wall for three days and three nights, until the sky and the earth were darkened and the sun and the moon were lost. At this time, only to hear the "rumbling" sound, the wall collapsed, the repair of the Great Wall was Meng Jiangnu cried down 800 miles. This touching legend is not only an indictment of the brutal forced labor in the era of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, but also an illustration of the people's hard work in the construction of the Great Wall. The Great Wall is the embodiment of the strength and wisdom of the Chinese nation. In order to commemorate this Meng Jiangnu, who sought her husband for thousands of miles, the descendants built the Meng Jiangnu Temple at the foot of the Great Wall. There is a statue of Meng Jiangnu in the temple, and there is a legend of Meng Jiangnu looking for her husband when she climbed up to look at the "lookout stone" miles.

Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

This beautiful, poignant and touching love story has been passed down for many years on the banks of the Cao'e River in Shangyu and at the foot of the handsome Longshan Mountain. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhejiang Shangyu County, Zhu Jiazhuang, Yushui River, there is a Zhu foreigner's daughter, Yingtai, beautiful and intelligent, since childhood with her brother to study poetry, admire Ban Zhao, Cai Wenji's talent, hate the family without a good teacher, and want to go to Hangzhou to visit the teacher to study. Zhu Yingtai refused her daughter's request. Zhu Yingtai, eager to learn, disguised as a soothsayer, said to Zhu Yingtai, "According to the trigrams, it is better to let your love go out." Zhu father saw his daughter disguised as a man, nothing broken, in order not to disappoint her, only reluctantly agreed. Yingtai disguises herself as a man and goes to Hangzhou to study. On the way, she met Liang Shanbo, a scholar who went to study in Hangzhou (now Shaoxing), and they met each other as if they knew each other, and they were very happy to meet each other, and they made a handful of earth as incense on the grass bridge pavilion, and they were united by the golden orchid. Not one day, the two came to Hangzhou City, Wansong Academy, pay homage to the teacher enrollment. From then on, the same window *** read, inseparable. Liang Zhu classmates for three years, love is as deep as the sea. Yingtai y love Shanbo, but Shanbo always do not know she is a woman, only the idea of brotherly love, and no special feelings. The father of the wish to miss his daughter, urging the return of very urgent, Yingtai had to hastily return to their hometown. Liang Zhu parted, reluctant to part. On the way to see each other off, Yingtai constantly borrows objects to caress her feelings, suggesting love. Shan Bo, who is loyal and simple, does not understand the reason. Yingtai had no choice but to lie that the home of the nine sisters, character appearance and their own cool, willing to matchmaking for Shan Bo, but Liang Shan Bo family poverty, failed to come as expected, to be Shan Bo went to the Zhu family marriage proposal, I do not know that the father of the Zhu father has been promised to the home of Guanjincheng (now Yinxian) of the governor's son of the horse and only. Beautiful marriage, has become a vicissitude. The two met on the platform, tearful eyes to each other, sad and goodbye. Farewell, made a vow: life can not be the same bed, death also want the same hole! After Liang Shanbo was the court swamp for Yin County (now Fenghua County) order. However, Liang Shanbo became sick with depression and died soon after. His last order was to be buried in the ancient city of Jiulong. Yingtai heard Shan Bo bad news, swore to martyrdom. When Yingtai was forced to get married, she made a detour to Liang Shanbo's tomb to pay her respects. When Zhu Yingtai mourned and sensed the storm, thunder and lightning, the tomb burst open and Yingtai jumped into the tomb, the tomb was reunited, the wind stopped raining and the rainbow cleared up, and Liang and Zhu were transformed into butterflies, which fluttered and danced on the earth.

The Legend of the White Snake

The legend takes place in Hangzhou, Suzhou and Zhenjiang during the Song Dynasty. Bai Suzhen, a snake demon trained for a thousand years, took human form to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving her life in a previous life, and then met Xiaoqing, a green snake spirit, and the two of them became companions. Bai Suzhen used her magical power and trickery to meet Xu Xian and married him. After the marriage, Fa Hai, a monk of Jinshan Temple, told Xu Xian that Bai Suzhen was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical. Later, Xu Xian followed Fa Hai's advice and made Bai Suzhen drink wine with Xionghuang during the Dragon Boat Festival, which forced Bai Suzhen to reveal her original form, but scared Xu Xian to death. Bai Suzhen went to the heaven to steal the immortal grass to revive Xu Xian. Fahai lured Xu Xian to the Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. Together with Xiaoqing, Bai Suzhen and Fahai fought with Fahai and flooded the temple with water, but hurt other living beings as a result. After giving birth to a child, Bai Suzhen was taken into Fahai's bowl and suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda. Later, Bai Suzhen's son grew up and won the Scholarship. He went to the tower to sacrifice his mother and rescued her, reuniting the whole family. From the third volume of A Cautionary Tale, The Legend of the White Snake. The original story is not as beautiful as the above .

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