The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden
The poignant love story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden took place around the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the slave society was characterized by strict hierarchies
This story is a portrayal of the general public's quest for happiness and repression, and a reference to the two stars in the sky, which is the reality of the earth.
Legend has it that a long time ago, Nanyang City, west of the Niu Village, there is a smart, loyal young man, parents died early, had to follow his brother and sister-in-law to spend their days, sister-in-law Ma's vicious, often abusive to him. One day, the heavenly Weaving Maiden and all the nymphs came down to the earth together, bathing in the river and enjoying the joy of the earth. While they were swimming, the Weaving Maiden met the Cowherd, and the two of them fell in love with each other, and with the help of the old cow, they were married. Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden after the marriage, male plowing and weaving, husband and wife love, a twin child, a child and a daughter, a family of four, life is sweet. But the good times do not last long, this is the heavenly Jade Emperor knows, to Queen Mother herself down to the earth, forcibly the weaving girl back to heaven, breaking up their good marriage. The old cow looked at the tearful cowherd and the two children who cried bitterly, it also could not help but shed tears, the old cow said to the cowherd: "You do not cry and hurt your body, but also to raise the two children. I have a way to relieve you of your difficulties, and it is time for me to repay you. When I die, I will make three pairs of shoes from my skin, so that you and your two children can wear them and go to heaven, and the family will be reunited." The old cow died that day, the cowherd according to the old cow said to do, they put on the old cowhide shoes, and together they went up to the sky to look for the weaving maiden, and saw that they were about to catch up with it, but I didn't know that the Queen Mother had a hard heart, and pulled down the golden hairpin on her head and swung it, and a turbulent heavenly river appeared, and the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden were separated from the two sides of the heavenly river, and they could only cry in opposition to each other. The love of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden touched the magpies, and ten million magpies flew to build a magpie bridge for the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to meet each other, and the Queen Mother was so touched by the couple's love for each other that she permitted them to meet each other every year on the 7th day of the 7th month at the magpie bridge.
Meng Jiangnu
Meng Jiangnu Weeping Great Wall story took place in Hunan Li Zhou Meng Jiangshan surrounding areas (now Jin City, Li County, subdivided by the Jiashan area), according to legend, the Qin Emperor, fleeing back to his hometown of young Fan Xilang and Meng Jiangnu wedding night, was about to go into the bridal chamber when, Fan Xilang was captured and sent to the north to build the Great Wall, and soon died of starvation and cold and exhaustion, the body was buried in the Great Wall under the wall. Meng Jiangnu, dressed in cold clothes, traveled thousands of miles in search of her husband and came to the Great Wall. She wept bitterly under the wall for three days and three nights, and finally wept down the Great Wall and found her husband's bones, vowing to bring them back to her hometown for burial. After carrying the bones on her back, she died of hunger and thirst in Tongguan County, Xi'an Province, Shaanxi Province. The local people were so moved by Meng Jiangnu's true love that they buried their remains and set up a shrine to commemorate them, which is still burned to this day. The hometown of Meng Jiangnu, Jiashan, has a lot of cultural relics about Meng Jiangnu, with a wide range of physical attractions and popular stories and operas. Reflecting the people's hatred of feudal tyranny and their desire and pursuit of a free and happy life, it has been passed down through more than 2,000 years, and is a precious cultural heritage of our Chinese nation, and the nostalgia of overseas Chinese for their homeland.
The Legend of the White Snake
The story was written in the Southern Song Dynasty or earlier, and matured and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, making it a model of collective Chinese folklore. Feng Menglong's "A Cautionary Tale" includes "The White Snake Forever Zhen Leifeng Pagoda," which is the earliest version of the White Snake Tale that can be found today.
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The two serpent fairies, who have been practicing for a thousand years in Emei Mountain, come to the West Lake on earth and turn into the beautiful maidens, White Maiden and Qing'er. They meet a young man, Xu Xian, in the rain, and love develops between the White Maiden and Xu Xian, who become husband and wife. The monk Fa Hai believed that this was a demonic evil, so he compelled Xu Xian to get his wife drunk on the Dragon Boat Festival with xiong huang wine, and when she was drunk, she revealed her snake form, which scared Xu Xian to death. When she woke up, she was so shocked and pained that she sacrificed her life to go to the fairy mountain to steal back the immortal grass and save Xu Xian's life.
Unexpectedly, when Xu Xian recovered from his illness, he was lured by Fa Hai to the Jinshan Temple. The White Lady and Qing'er arrived, but Fahai is not allowed to see Xu Xian, the White Lady had no choice, and Qing'er mobilized the water tribe, the water flooded San Francisco, Fahai invited the gods and goddesses to protect the law to help the battle, do not want to be in Fahai Zen masters of the scheme, was mounted into a very small mantle, pressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, and from then on the loss of personal freedom and the happiness of the heavenly family.
Liang Zhu
Butterfly
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is about the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhu Yingtai disguised as a man to go to Hangzhou to study, met Liang Shanbo, because of the similarity of purpose and brotherhood and three years of the same window. After Zhu Yingtai returned home, she asked her mother to marry Liang Shanbo. When she was sent away, Zhu Yingtai promised to marry him as a "sister". Liang Shanbo knew about this and went to Zhu's family to propose to her. At that time, Zhu's father, Gongyuan, had already promised his daughter to Ma Wencai, the son of Ma Taishou. Liang and Zhu met on the roof of a building, after which Liang Shanbo returned home sick and died. Zhu Yingtai wedding time, sedan chair detour to Liang Shanbo grave to pay tribute, thunder crack tomb, Yingtai into the grave. Liang Zhuzhu turned into a butterfly and flew.
In fact, the two are more than 800 years apart, Liang Shanbo is the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yingtai is the North and South Dynasties. Zhu Yingtai is a chivalrous woman, robbing the rich to help the poor, three to go to the governor's home to steal silver, after the ambush was hacked to death, the people will be buried; Liang Shanbo is the Ningbo silver county county magistrate, after the death of the burial digging the grave, coincidentally planed out the Zhu Yingtai's tombstone, feng shui is good, and another choice of land and burial is not good, so the joint burial, set up a monument, the black for the Liang, the red for the Zhu, a man of letters thought, perfomance out of the world of the amazing love story.
Tianxian match
Dong Yong's story is a source, it is seen in the history, class books, notes, subsets of the earlier three or four. It is widely believed that he
was a native of Qingzhou in the Han Dynasty, in the northern part of present-day Shandong Province, and there are different accounts of where the story of his selling his body to bury his father and his encounter with a fairy took place.
Dong Yong sold himself to bury his father and became a slave in the house of Mr. Fu. The seventh fairy of the Jade Emperor sympathized with Dong Yong and came down to earth to marry him. The seventh fairy weaves 10 pieces of brocade in one night, helping Dong Yong to change his three-year long labor to 100 days. At the end of the 100-day period, the couple returned home, but the Jade Emperor ordered the seven fairies to return to Heaven, for the sake of Dong Yong, the seven fairies endured the pain of saying goodbye to their husbands.