1. The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden
The main story is about the orphaned Cowherd, who relies on his brother and sister-in-law for a living. His sister-in-law is mean and often mistreats him, and he is forced to separate from his family and rely on an old ox to plow and feed himself. One day, when the Weaving Maiden and the fairies come down to the earth to play and bathe in the river, the old ox persuades Niu Lang to go and meet them, and tells him that if the fairies can't get back before sunrise, he will have to stay in the mortal world.
The cowherd then stayed by the river and watched the seven fairies, he found the youngest of them very beautiful and fell in love with her, remembering the old cow's words, so the cowherd quietly took away the youngest fairy's clothes, and when the fairies were ready to return to heaven, the youngest fairy realized that her clothes were missing and could only stay behind, so the cowherd then had an encounter with the weaving maiden, and they got along well, and the weaving maiden then became the cowherd's wife.
After the marriage, they ploughed and wove, and had a son and a daughter, life is very beautiful and happy. However, when the Emperor found out about this, he ordered the Queen Mother to escort the Weaving Maiden back to Heaven to stand trial.
The old ox could not bear to see their wives separated, so he touched off the horn on his head and turned it into a boat, so that the cowherd could pick up his son and daughter and catch up with her in the boat. When he was about to catch up with the Weaving Maiden, the Queen Mother suddenly pulled off the golden hairpin on her head and drew a rippling Milky Way in the sky. The Cowherd was unable to cross the river, and could only look at the Weaving Maiden from afar at the river's edge and cry to her.
Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a colorful bridge across the river with their bodies, so that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden could meet each other on the heavenly river. The Heavenly Emperor had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to meet on the magpie bridge once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month, with the magpies by their side. In the future, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden would meet every year on the seventh day of the seventh month.
2. Meng Jiangnu
During the Qin Dynasty, there was a kind and beautiful woman named Meng Jiangnu. One day, she suddenly found a man hiding under the grapevine, scared her, and was about to shout, only to see the man waving his hands, pleading: "Don't shout, don't shout, save me! My name is Fan Xiliang, I came to escape."
It turned out that Emperor Qin Shi Huang, in order to build the Great Wall, had taken people everywhere as laborers, and had already starved and exhausted many people. Meng Jiangnu saved Fan Xiliang, and as the days went by, the two of them were so in love with each other that they were ready to get married after asking their parents' permission.
On the day of the wedding, Meng's house was decorated with lanterns, full of guests, a joyful scene. Look at the sky is almost dark, drinking wine people are gradually dispersed, the bride and groom are about to enter the bridal chamber, suddenly heard the chicken fly dog barking, then broke in a team of vicious soldiers, not to say, with a chain lock, hard to Fan Xiliang captured to the Great Wall to do the work.
The happy event turned into an empty, Meng Jiangnu grief and indignation, day and night thinking of her husband. So Meng Jiangnu packed up and traveled to the place where the Great Wall was built to look for her husband. Finally, with her tenacity and deep love for her husband, she reached the Great Wall.
At this point, the Great Wall was already a long, long wall made up of one site after another, and Meng Jiangnu searched for her husband one site after another, but she never saw him. Finally, she summoned up the courage to ask a team of workers who were about to start work: "Do you have a Fan Xiliang here?"
The laborers said, "There is such a person, a newcomer." When Meng Jiangnu heard this, she could not be happier! She quickly asked again, "Where is he?" The folk worker said, "Already dead, the corpse has filled the foot of the city!"
Hearing this terrible news, it was like a bolt from the blue, Meng Jiangnu felt a black eye, a burst of heartache, and cried out. She cried for three days and three nights, crying so much that even heaven and earth were moved.
The sky became more and more gloomy, the wind became more and more violent, only to hear "clatter", a section of the Great Wall was wept down, revealing the body of Fan Xiliang, Meng Jiangnu's tears dripped on his bloody face. She had finally met her beloved husband, but he could never see her again, for he had been killed by the brutal Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
3. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
Once upon a time, there was a landowner surnamed Zhu, who was known as Mr. Zhu, and his daughter Zhu Yingtai was not only beautiful and generous, but also very smart and studious. But because in ancient times
women were not allowed to study in the academy, Zhu Yingtai had to lean on the window railing day after day, looking at the street with a book box on the back of the readers coming and going, the heart is very envious. Why is it that women can only embroider at home and cannot go to school?
Thinking of this, Zhu Yingtai rushed back to her room and summoned up the courage to ask her parents: "Father, mother, I want to go to Hangzhou to study. I can wear men's clothes and disguise myself as a man, and I will make sure that no one will recognize me, so just promise me!" Mr. and Mrs. Zhu didn't agree at first, but they couldn't withstand Yingtai's pleading and begging, so they had to agree.
The next morning, just after dawn, Zhu Yingtai and the maid dressed up as men, said goodbye to their parents, took the bookcase with them, and happily set off for Hangzhou. On the first day of school,? Zhu Yingtai met a male student named Liang Shanbo, who was excellent in study and had a good character. She thought: such a good person, if they can be together every day, they will surely learn a lot,? would surely be very happy.
And Liang Shanbo felt very much in love with her,? It was love at first sight. So, they often together poetry ah ah talk about deep love, hot and cold ah mutual care and consideration, porch side, two small guess.
Later, the two worshiped like brothers, but also moments, inseparable. In the fall, flash three years passed, the end of the school year, it is time to pack clothes, worship teachers, go home. Classmates *** with the same candlestick triple, Zhu Yingtai y in love with her brother Liang, Liang Shanbo, although they do not know Zhu Yingtai is a girl, but also to her very much admiration. They are not willing to separate hands,? After returning home, they miss each other day and night.
A few months later, Liang Shanbo visited Zhu's family, and the result surprised and delighted him. It turned out that at this time, he met Zhu Yingtai, is no longer that clean-cut little scholar, but a young and beautiful big girl. The moment they saw each other again, they both realized that their feelings for each other had long been heart-to-heart.
After that, Liang Shanbo asked someone to go to Zhu's family to ask for marriage. However, Mr. Zhu would not look at this poor scholar, he had already betrothed his daughter to Mr. Ma, the young master of a rich family. Liang Shanbo was so disheartened that he fell ill and died soon after.
Hearing the news of Liang Shanbo's death, Zhu Yingtai, who had been fighting with her parents against the arranged marriage, suddenly became unusually calm. She put on a red coat and skirt and entered the sedan chair to welcome her. The procession of welcoming the bride all the way to beat gongs and drums, very lively! When they passed Liang Shanbo's grave, the sedan chair had to stop because of the flying sand and stones.
See Zhu Yingtai out of the sedan chair, take off the red dress, a plain dress, slowly walked to the grave, kneeling down and crying, all of a sudden the wind and rain, thunder, "boom", the grave cracked, Zhu Yingtai seems to see her Liang brother's gentle face, she smiled and jumped in.
Then there was another loud bang, and the tomb closed. At that moment the wind died down, the rain cleared, all kinds of wild flowers swayed gently in the wind, and a pair of beautiful butterflies flew out from the grave, dancing freely in the sunlight.
4. The Legend of the White Snake
At the time of the Ching Ming Festival, the banks of the West Lake were full of flowers and willows, and the Broken Bridge was crowded with tourists. Suddenly, from the bottom of the West Lake quietly rose up two girls, the original is two cultivated into a human form of the snake spirit, but they are not harmless, only because of the envy of the world's colorful life, it is a name of the white Suzhen, a name of the small green, came to the West Lake to play.
Then, all of a sudden, it started pouring rain, Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing were drenched with nowhere to hide, is worried about it, suddenly only feel more than an umbrella above their heads, turn around and see a gentle, elegant, white and beautiful young scholar holding an umbrella in the rain for them. Bai Suzhen and the young scholar's eyes met, both coincidentally red face, mutual love and adoration.
Siu Ching saw it in her eyes and said, "Thank you very much! May I ask what is the name of the guest." The little scholar said, "My name is Xu Xian, and I live by this broken bridge." Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing also hurriedly introduced themselves. From then on, the three of them often met, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian's relationship is getting better and better, after a short while, they married, and opened a "Baohetang" pharmacy.
Because of the "Bohotang" cured a lot of many difficult diseases, and to the poor to see the doctor dispensing medicine also does not charge a penny, so the pharmacy's business is more and more prosperous, from near and far to look for the white Suzhen cure more and more people, the people will be white Suzhen affectionately known as the white lady. However, the prosperity of "Baohe Tang" and the happy life of Xu Xian and the White Maiden annoyed one person, that is, the monk Fa Hai of Jinshan Temple.
Because people's illnesses were cured by the White Lady, there were fewer people to burn incense at the Jinshan Temple, and the incense was not flourishing, so Mr. Fa Hai was naturally not happy. This day, he came to the "Baohe Hall" in front, see the White Lady is treating people, can not help but burn with jealousy in the heart, and then fixed eyes, oops! The white lady is not a mortal, but a white snake.
While Fa Hai has a little magic, his mind is not right. After seeing the identity of the White Lady, he wanted to break up Xu Xian and the White Lady couple, and bring down the "Baohe Tang". So, he secretly called Xu Xian to the temple and said to him: "Your wife is a snake spirit, you quickly break up with her, otherwise, she will eat you!
When Xu Xian heard this, he was very angry, and he thought, "My mother is kind-hearted, and her love for me is deeper than the sea. Even if she is a snake spirit, she will not harm me, not to mention that she is now pregnant, how can I abandon her! When Fa Hai saw that Xu Xian did not take his bait, he became infuriated and locked Xu Xian up in the temple.
In the "Baohe Hall", the White Lady is anxiously waiting for Xu Xian to come back. One day, two days, left, right, etc., the white lady is anxious. Finally inquired about the original Xu Xian by the Jinshan Temple of the Fahai monk to the "stay", the white lady rushed to the Jinshan Temple with Xiaoqing, begging, please Fahai released Xu Xian.
Fa Hai saw the White Snake, a cold smile, said: "Daring demon snake, I advise you to quickly leave the earth, or do not blame me for not polite! White lady see Fa Hai refused to let go, have no choice but to pull off the head of the golden hairpin, the wind a shake, set off a huge wave, to the Jinshan Temple straight to the past. When Fa Hai saw the water flooding the temple, he took off his robe and turned it into a long dike, stopping it outside the temple gate.
The water rose a foot, the long embankment will be a foot high, the water rose a zhang, the long embankment will be a zhang high, no matter how big the waves are, can not be diffused through. Coupled with the white lady is pregnant, really can not fight Fa Hai, later, Fa Hai make fraudulent maneuvers, the white lady into the golden bowl, pressed under the Leifeng Tower, the Xu Xian and the white lady of this pair of loving couples live apart.
Siu Ching escaped from the Jinshan Temple, dozens of years of deep mountain practice, and finally defeated Fahai, forced him into the belly of the crab, rescued the White Lady, and from then on, she and Xu Xian and their children live happily ever after, never to be separated again.
Expanded:
The four great love legends of Chinese folklore refer to the four major love legends that have been most widely circulated in Chinese folklore in oral, The four myths and legends are the four myths and legends that have the widest circulation and the greatest influence in Chinese folklore in the form of oral and written manuscripts and other forms. They and other folk tales form an important part of Chinese folk culture and have a profound influence on the lives of the general public.
These four legends are all love stories, and reflect from one side the recognition of people's sincere feelings. It includes: Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, Meng Jiangnu, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, and the Legend of the White Snake.
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