Legend has it that Bai Suzhen, a snake demon with a thousand years of training, had her life saved from the mouth of a black eagle by an old man surnamed Xu in the
Legend has it that Bai Suzhen, a snake demon with a thousand years of training, had her life saved from the mouth of a black eagle by an old man surnamed Xu in the village of Xujiagou hundreds of years ago. In order to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving her life in his previous life, she took human form to repay the favor, and then she met the green snake spirit Xiaoqing, and the two of them came to the West Lake in Hangzhou together.
Bai Suzhen used her magic power and trickery to get acquainted with Xu Xian, and in the course of their relationship, the two of them developed a secret love for each other. So, Bai Suzhen and decided to marry him. At the time of the marriage, there was a lack of silver, so Xiaoqing used her magic power to steal silver from the official treasury of Qiantang County, which was discovered on the next day. Xu Xian was arrested and sent to Zhenjiang. The White Lady and Qing Er eventually arrived in Zhenjiang and found Xu Xian. They opened an apothecary store, giving medicines and treating people, which was very popular with the locals. Life was very beautiful.
Fa Hai, a monk at Jinshan Temple, was the reincarnation of the Black Eagle who had a grudge against Bai Suzhen. He knew where the White Lady came from and told Xu Xian that Bai Suzhen was a snake demon. Xu Xian originally could not believe that his beloved wife would be the incarnation of the White Snake. However, unable to withstand Fa Hai's persuasion, he finally forced the White Snake to drink Xiong Huang wine on the Dragon Boat Festival. As a result, the tent was uncovered and his wife was indeed transformed into a white snake. Xu Xian fainted and his life was in danger.
Bai Suzhen woke up, despite all the dangers, and went to Heaven to steal the immortal grass to save Xu Xian. After Xu Xian recovered from his illness, he was provoked by Fa Hai and went to the Jinshan Temple to return his wish. Fahai wants Xu Xian to become a monk with him and puts him under house arrest. White Snake went to the temple to ask for her husband, but her pleas were futile and she was insulted. She and Qing'er could do nothing about it, so they mobilized the shrimp soldiers and crab generals to reverse the flow of the Yangtze River and flooded San Francisco. Fa Hai also summoned heavenly soldiers and generals to suppress them. After a bitter battle, the White Lady, being pregnant, finally lost the battle and disappeared back to Hangzhou with Qing'er.
Hsu Hsien took advantage of the chaos of the battle to flee back to Hangzhou, where he was reunited with Auntie White and Qing'er at the Broken Bridge. The White Lady blames Xu Xian for being gullible, while Qing'er hates Xu Xian for being heartless and raises her sword to kill him. Later, Xu Xian admits his mistake and the three of them reconcile, focusing their hatred on Fa Hai. As Bai is about to give birth, they all go to Xu's brother-in-law's house to settle down.
The White Lady gave birth to a boy, Xu Shilin, and was celebrating the full moon when Fa Hai arrived. He sacrificed his golden bowl and suppressed the White Snake under the Leifeng Pagoda, declaring that he would not allow her to see the light of day until the tower fell. But when the bowl was closed, Qing'er escaped. She practiced in the mountains for many years and learned a lot of magic, and then she and Bai Suzhen's son went to the tower to sacrifice his mother, and rescued Bai Suzhen, and the whole family was reunited.
Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing went to Jinshan Temple together to find Fa Hai to take revenge, the defeated Fa Hai had nowhere to hide, but to hide in the crab shell.
Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing went to the Jinshan Temple to seek revenge for the defeat of Fahai, and had to hide in the crab shell.
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province, Zhu Jiazhuang, by the Yushui River, there was Zhu's daughter, Yingtai, beautiful and intelligent, since childhood, with her brother to study poetry and literature, admire the talent of Ban Zhao, Cai Wenji, 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's father saw his daughter disguised as a man, nothing broken, in order not to bear to disappoint her, only reluctantly agreed.
Yingtai disguised herself as a man and traveled to Hangzhou to study. On the way, she met Liang Shanbo, a scholar from Huiji (now Shaoxing), who went to Hangzhou to study. At first sight, they got to know each other very well and were very happy to read each other, so they made a handful of earth as incense on the grass bridge pavilion and tied the knot with each other. Not one day, the two came to Hangzhou City, Wan Song Academy, pay homage to the teacher enrollment. From then on, the same window *** read, inseparable.
Liang Zhu classmates for three years, love is like the sea. Yingtai loved Shanbo, but Shanbo never knew she was a woman, only the idea of brotherly love, and no special feelings.
Bestowed to his father, pining for his daughter, urged to return very quickly, Yingtai had to rush back to his hometown. The two of them were in the middle of a long journey, and the two of them were in the middle of a long journey. In the eighteen miles to send each other on the way, Yingtai constantly borrowed objects to caress the meaning, suggesting love. Shan Bo, who is loyal and simple, does not understand the reason. Yingtai had no choice but to lie and say that her family's ninth sister, whose character and appearance were similar to her own, was willing to act as a matchmaker for Shanbo, but Liang Shanbo's family was so poor that she could not fulfill her promise. When Shanbo went to Zhu's family to propose to him, she was not aware that Zhu's father had already promised Yingtai to Ma Yucai, the son of the governor who lived in Semi-cheng, the present-day Yinxian County. The marriage was a happy one, but it was not to be.
The two of them met on the roof of a building and parted with tears in their eyes. At the time of parting, made a vow: life can not be the same cover, death also want to the same hole! After Liang Shanbo was the court swamp for Yin County (now Fenghua County) order. Liang Shanbo became sick with depression and died soon after. He was buried in the Jiulong Market of Semi-city. When Yingtai heard of Shanbo's death, she vowed to die for him. When Yingtai was forced to get married, she made a detour to Liang Shanbo's tomb to pay her respects. As Zhu Yingtai mourned, the grave burst open due to wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and Yingtai leapt into the grave, which was then reunited, and when the wind and rain stopped and the rain cleared up, the rainbow was suspended high above the grave, and Liang and Zhu were transformed into butterflies, dancing and fluttering.
Meng Jiangnu
Legend has it that during the Qin Dynasty, a family surnamed Meng planted a melon, and the melon seedling climbed up the wall to Jiang's house to bear a melon. Melon ripe, a melon across two yards to score ah! Open a look, there is a white and fat little girl, so they gave her a name called Meng Jiangnu. Meng Jiangnu grew up, ten miles around, eight miles of the old folks, who all know that she is a good person, live well, smart and clever, and can play the piano, poetry, writing a good girl. The old couple even regarded her as the jewel of their hearts.
At this time, Qin Shihuang began to go around arresting men to build the Great Wall. There was a male named Wan Xiliang, a scholar, who was so scared that he ran away from his house. He was thirsty and just wanted to rest his feet and find some water to drink, when he heard the sound of people shouting and horses running around. It turned out that here is also being arrested! He was too late to run, so he jumped over a wall next to him. It turned out that this wall was the back garden of the Meng family. At this moment, Meng Jiangnu followed her maid out to stroll in the garden. Meng Jiangnu coldly saw a man hiding under the loofah, she and the maid just shouted, Wan Xiliang rushed to drill out, bowed and saluted and begged, "Miss, Miss, don't shout, don't shout, I'm fleeing, save my life!"
Meng Jiangnu took a look, Wan Xiliang is a white-faced scholar look, quite handsome, and the maid went back to report to the foreigner. In the back garden, he asked Wan Xiliang about his hometown, his name, and why he jumped over the wall into the courtyard. Wan Xiliang gave a full answer. Seeing that he was honest and well-read, he agreed to hide him in his home for the time being. After Wan Xiliang hid in Meng's house for some days, the old couple saw that he was a good-looking man and had a generous demeanor, so they discussed recruiting him as a son-in-law. When they talked to their daughter, she agreed. The first time I saw him, I was so happy to see him, and I was so happy to see him, that I decided to marry him.
In those years, the military was in a state of turmoil, and people were being arrested for their husbands, so the marriage was finalized, and no one's family was always left behind. The old couple discussed, chose an auspicious date and time, invited relatives and friends. Set up two tables of banquets, joyful and lively one day, the two people will be married. As the saying goes, "Every day has its own calamity, the sky has its own unpredictable winds and clouds". The two were married in less than three days, suddenly came a group of government officials, did not allow to say, on the raw pulling and pulling of the Wan Gongzi to be arrested!
This was a very bad time for Meng Jiangnu, and she cried and hoped all day long! But after a year of waiting, not only did she not expect to see him, but she didn't expect to hear from him either. Meng Jiangnu was so worried about her husband that she made cold clothes for him for several nights and went to the Great Wall to look for him. Her parents could not stop her, so they agreed to go. Meng Jiangnu packed her clothes, said goodbye to her parents, and embarked on her journey, Meng Jiangnu has been running due north, through a road of mountains, crossing a road of water.
Meng Jiangnu packed her bags, left her husband and set out on a journey to find her husband. When she was hungry, she nibbled on cold biscuits; when she was thirsty, she drank cold water; and when she was tired, she sat down by the side of the road to rest her feet. One day, she asked a gray-haired old man who was fetching firewood, "How far is it from the Great Wall?" The old man said, "Far, far away is Youzhou, and the Great Wall is still north of Youzhou." Meng Jiangnu thought to herself, "Even if the Great Wall is far away in the sky, I will walk to the sky to find my husband!"
Meng Jiangnu walked even when it was windy and raining. One day, she came to a village in front of her, not behind the store in the middle of nowhere, the sky is also dark, people are also tired, so she ran to the broken temple. The broken temple is quite big, only half a person deep weeds and grimacing idols. She was a lonely young woman, scared to death. But she couldn't care less, and found a nook and cranny and went to sleep. At night she dreamed that she was studying at the table with her husband, when suddenly she heard a banging on the door and thought that a gang of arresting magistrates had broken in. She woke up with a start, but it turned out to be the wind blowing the doors and windows of the broken temple rattling. She sighed, saw the sky will be bright, and picked up the package on the road.
One day, she was exhausted and felt cold. She wanted to rest her feet, but then she fainted. She woke up and realized that she was lying on a hot bed in her hometown. The landlady rolled out soup for her and made brown sugar and ginger water, for which she thanked her profusely. She sweated a little and felt a little lighter, so she struggled to get up and continued on her way. The landlady pulled her with tears in her eyes and said: "Your sister-in-law, I know you are eager to find your husband, but you are as hot as hot coals, can I bear to let you go! Sister-in-law, look at your feet, they have become blood lumps, how can they still be feet!" Meng Jiangnu took a look at her feet, but they were not bloody. She stayed at the old lady's house for two more days, and left again before she got well. The old lady shed tears and said, "What a good daughter-in-law she is! God, be merciful and let all the couples in the world be reunited!" Meng Jiangnu finally arrived at the place where the Great Wall was being built. She asked the workers of the Great Wall: Do you know where Wan Xi Liang is? When she asked one of them, they said no. When she asked another one, they shook their heads. She asked one person, but he said he didn't know. She asked another person, but he shook his head, and she didn't know how many people she had asked, but she found a worker from the neighboring village who was repairing the Great Wall. The neighboring village workers enthusiastically led her to look for the workers who built the Great Wall with Wan Xiliang.
Meng Jiangnu asked, "Big brothers, are you the ones who built the Great Wall with Wan Xiliang?"
The group said, "Yes!"
"Where is Wan Xiliang?"
All of them looked at me and I looked at you. With tears in their eyes, no one said a word. Meng Jiangnu saw this scene, buzzing, hair roots a first. She stared wide-eyed and asked, "Where is my husband Wan Xiliang?" Seeing that they couldn't hide it, the group stammered, "Wan Xiliang died of exhaustion and starvation last month!"
"Where is the body?"
The group said, "There are too many dead people to bury, and the supervisors have told them to fill in the Great Wall!"
Before they could say anything, Meng Jiangnu clapped her hands on the Great Wall and wept bitterly.
Meng Jiangnu slapped her hand on the Great Wall and cried out in pain. Only cried thousands of workers, each head down in tears, only cried the sun and the moon, the sky and the earth, only cried the autumn wind sad, sea water waves. Crying, suddenly "clatter" a loud bang, the Great Wall like the sky collapsed like a big section collapsed, revealing a pile of human bones. So many white bones, which one is their husbands? She suddenly remembered the story she heard her mother tell her when she was a child: the bones of a loved one can seep into the blood of a loved one. She bit her middle finger and dripped blood to recognize the corpse. She then carefully identified the torn buttons of her clothes and recognized her husband's bones. Yu Jiangnu guarded Joe Guan's bones and cried her eyes out.
While she was crying, Emperor Qin Shi Huang passed by with a large group of people inspecting the border wall.
When Emperor Qin Shi Huang heard that Meng Jiangnu had cried down the wall, he immediately became furious and stormed. He led his three armies to the bottom of Horn Mountain to personally deal with Meng Jiangnu. However, once he saw Meng Jiangnu was young and beautiful, her eyebrows were clear and pretty, like a flower, he wanted to dominate Meng Jiangnu. Meng Jiangnu was not willing to comply! Qin Shi Huang sent a few grannies to persuade her, and also sent Zhao Gao, the commander of the Central Committee, to persuade her with the cape, but Meng Jiangnu refused to obey. In the end, Emperor Qin Shi Huang came in person. When Meng Jiangnu saw Emperor Qin Shi Huang, she could not wait to die in front of this tyrannical ruler. But on second thought, how could she die in vain when she had not avenged her husband's grievances and the people's grievances? She held back her anger and listened to Qin Shi Huang's nonsense. Seeing that she did not say anything, Qin Shi Huang thought that she was willing, so he said more vigorously: "You open your mouth! As long as you obey me, I'll give you whatever you want, mountains of gold and silver will do!"
Meng Jiangnu said, "I don't want mountains of gold and silver, I just want you to promise me three things!"
Qin Shi Huang said, "Not to mention three things, or even thirty things will also comply with you. You say, this first one!"
Meng Jiangnu said, "The first thing, you have to give my husband a monument, repair the grave, with sandalwood coffin coffin."
Qin Shi Huang heard: "Good to say, good to say, should you this one. Quickly say the second!"
"This second piece, to you to my husband in hemp wearing mourning, playing streamers and holding cans, followed by the hearse, led the civil and military officials crying funeral."
Qin Shi Huang heard, how can this work! I am an emperor, how can I give a small people buried ah! "This one won't work, tell me the third one!"
Yu Jiangnu said, "If the second one doesn't work, there will be no third one!"
Qin Shi Huang looked at this style, do not agree to it, looking at the mouth of the fat meat can not touch to eat; agree to it, will not let the world of people laughing. Another thought: no matter what it is shame, and then who dares to laugh at me, I will kill him. Thinking of this he said: "Good! I promise you the second. Tell me the third one!"
Meng Jiangnu said, "The third one, I want to stroll around the sea for three days."
Qin Shi Huang said, "This is easy! Okay, I'll let you have all three!"
Qin Shi Huang immediately sent people to build a monument for Wan Xiliang, repair his grave, purchase a coffin, prepare mourning clothes and white streamers to attract spirits. On the day of the funeral, Wan Xiliang's hearse was in front of him, and Qin Shi Huang followed closely behind him, wearing hemp and filial piety, and really became a filial son. After the funeral, Meng Jiangnu said to Qin Shi Huang, "Let's go swimming in the sea and get married afterward." Emperor Qin Shi Huang was really happy. He was so happy that he didn't know what to do, but suddenly he heard a sound, and Meng Jiangnu jumped into the sea!
The first emperor of Qin Shi Huang was anxious to see: "Quickly, quickly, quickly give me down to the sea to salvage."
As soon as the salvage people got off the sea, the sea clattered - clattered - and set off a huge wave. The salvage people saw the situation and hurriedly got into the boat. How did this big wave come so coincidentally? It turned out that the Dragon King and the Dragon Lady both sympathized with Meng Jiangnu, and as soon as they saw her jumping into the sea, they hurriedly took her to the Dragon Palace. After that, they ordered the shrimp soldiers and crab generals to make a big wave. Luckily, Qin Shi Huang escaped quickly, or he would have been swept into the sea.
The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden
Legend has it that there is a Weaving Maiden in the sky, and an Altair. The weaving maiden and the Altair were in love with each other, and their hearts were in love. However, the laws of heaven do not allow men and women to fall in love with each other. The Queen Mother, who is the granddaughter of the Weaving Maiden, has relegated Altair to the mortal realm, and has made the Weaving Maiden keep weaving cloud brocade as a punishment.
The weaver's job is to use a magical silk to weave layers of beautiful clouds on a loom, changing their colors with the time of day and the seasons, which is the "Heavenly Clothes". Since Altair was deposed, the Weaving Maiden often washed her face with tears and thought of Altair with sadness. She sat by the loom and kept weaving beautiful cloud brocade in order to win the mercy of the Queen Mother, so that Altair could return to the heavenly realm as soon as possible.
One day, several nymphs pleaded with the Queen Mother to go to the Bilian Pond on earth, and the Queen Mother was in a good mood today, so she agreed to them. They see the weaving girl is bored all day long, then together to the Queen Mother pleading to let the weaving girl *** with the trip, the Queen Mother also heartache after the punishment of her granddaughter, they will be quick to go and return.
The story goes that after Altair was deported, he was born in a farmer's home and named Cowherd. When his parents died, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law. His brother and sister-in-law were very mean to him and wanted to separate the family from him, giving him only an old ox and a broken cart, while the rest was monopolized by his brother and sister-in-law, and then they separated the family from him. From then on, Cowherd and the old ox depended on each other, and they ploughed and cultivated the wasteland and built houses. After a year or two, they built a small home and could barely make ends meet. However, except for the old ox that could not speak, the lonely home was only for Cowherd, and the life was quite lonely. He didn't realize that the old ox was the star of the golden calf in the sky.
On this day, the old ox suddenly spoke, and it said to the cowherd: "Cowherd, today you go to the Bilian Pond, where some fairies are bathing, and you hide the red fairy clothes, and the fairy wearing the red fairy clothes will become your wife." Seeing the old ox spitting out human words, Cowherd was surprised and delighted, so he asked, "Brother Ox, can you really talk? Is what you say true?" The old ox nodded, and Cowherd quietly hid in the reeds beside the Bilian Pond, waiting for the fairies to come.
A little while later, the fairies did indeed arrive, took off their light robes, and leapt into the clear stream. The cowherd then ran out of the reeds and took away the red fairy clothes. When the fairies saw that someone was coming, they put on their own clothes and flew away like birds, leaving only the one who had no clothes and could not escape, which was the Weaving Maiden. The weaving maiden saw her fairy clothes being snatched away by a young man, she was ashamed and anxious, but she could do nothing about it. At that moment, the Cowherd came up to her and told her that he would return her clothes only if she promised to be his wife. The Weaving Maiden took a good look and realized that the Cowherd was the Altair she had been thinking about so much, so she shyly agreed to be his wife. In this way, the Weaving Maiden became the wife of the Cowherd.
After they got married, the man plowed and the woman wove, and they lived a very happy life together. Soon, they had a son and a daughter, very cute. The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden thought that they would be able to stay together for life and grow old together.
But when the Queen Mother found out about this, she was furious and immediately sent the celestial gods and fairies to arrest the Weaving Maiden and bring her back to Heaven for questioning.
This day, the weaving woman is cooking, down to the ground to go to the cowherd rush back, eyes red and swollen, told the weaving woman: "cow big brother died, he said before he died, want me to his death, will be his cowhide peeled down put good, one day, wear it, you can fly up to the sky." Weaving girl heard, the heart wonder, she understood, the old bull is the heavenly golden calf star, only because for the relegated to the earth Altair said a few words of justice, also relegated to the heavenly court. How could it suddenly die? The Weaving Maiden then asked the Cowherd to peel off the cow's skin and bury the old ox properly.
At this time, the sky was windy, the heavenly soldiers and generals descended from the sky, and without any explanation, escorted the Weaving Maiden up to the sky.
As she was flying, the weaving maiden heard Cowherd's voice: "Weaving maiden, wait for me!" The Weaving Maiden turned around and saw the Cowherd hurrying with a pair of baskets, picking up his two sons and daughters, clad in cowhide. Slowly, the distance between them is getting closer and closer, the weaver can see the children's lovely appearance, the children are open arms, loudly called "mom", see, the cowherd and the weaver is about to meet. But just at this time, the Queen Mother driving auspicious clouds came, she pulled down her head of the gold hairpin, to them in the middle of a row, all of a sudden, a heavenly river rolling across the weaving girl and the cowherd between, can not be crossed.
The Weaving Maiden looked at the Cowherd and her children on the other side of the Heavenly River, and wept until she was hoarse, and the Cowherd and his children cried until they were dead. Their cries, the children of a "mother" shouts, is so heartbreaking, tearful, even in the spectators of the fairies, the gods feel sad and sad, in the heart. Queen Mother saw this scene, also slightly for the cowherd weaving love touched, they agreed to let the cowherd and the children to stay in the sky, every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, let them meet once.
From then on, the Cowherd and his children lived in the sky, across a celestial river, and the Weaving Maiden far away from each other. Among the stars in the sky on autumn nights, we can still see two larger stars on either side of the Milky Way, glittering with crystal, the stars Vega and Altair. Together with Altair, there are two small stars, which are the son and daughter of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden.
On the seventh day of the seventh month, when the Cowherd and the Weaveress met, countless flocks of magpies flew to build a bridge for them. On the bridge of magpies, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden were reunited! The Weaving Maiden and the Cowherd were y in love with each other, embracing their children, and had countless words to say and endless feelings to pour out!
Legend has it that every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, if people in the grapevine under the vine quietly listen, can faintly hear the fairy music playing, the weaving woman and the cowherd in the affectionate conversation. Straight: it is difficult to see each other when it is also difficult to part, they are looking forward to the next year day after day on the seventh of July reunion.
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 starry sky, looking for the stars on both sides of the Milky Way Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, hoping to see them meet once a year, begging God to allow themselves to Weaving Maiden as dexterous, praying for their own can be satisfied with the marriage and the beauty of love, which has formed a The Tanabata Festival.