What folklore stories are there?

1. "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl"

"The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" is a famous folk love story in ancient China. It is said that the granddaughter of the ancient Emperor of Heaven, the Weaver Girl, was good at weaving and weaved colorful clouds for the sky every day. She hated this Living a boring life, he secretly descended to the mortal world, privately married a cowherd in Hexi, and lived a life where men farmed and women weaved.

This incident angered the Emperor of Heaven, who took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace and ordered them to separate. They were only allowed to meet on the Magpie Bridge once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Their faithful love moved the magpies. Countless magpies flew over and used their bodies to build a magpie bridge across the Tianhe River, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe River.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year is commonly known as "Qixi Festival". According to legend, it is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl 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. This day is also known as the Chinese version of "Valentine's Day" by modern people.

2. "Meng Jiangnu Crying at the Great Wall"

It is a famous folk legend in ancient my country. It has been widely circulated in the form of dramas, ballads, poems, raps, etc., and it can be said to be a household name. It is said that during the reign of Qin Shihuang, labor was heavy. Three days after the wedding of young men and women Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu, the groom was forced to set out to build the Great Wall. He soon died of hunger, cold and fatigue, and his bones were buried under the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnu, wearing cold clothes and going through hardships, traveled thousands of miles to find her husband and came to the Great Wall, but what she got was the bad news of her husband. She cried bitterly under the city for three days and three nights. The city collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's body. Meng Jiangnu threw herself into the sea and died in despair.

The legend of Meng Jiangnu crying at the Great Wall is not only widespread in my country's Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Gansu, Hebei, Beijing, Henan, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places It has been widely circulated and is also known by people in Japan, Russia and other countries, and has gradually formed various legend versions.

3. "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai"

It tells the story of the Western Jin Dynasty. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were classmates for three years, but they could not find out the identity of their daughter. Before Liang Shanbo died, he asked his family to bury him on the roadside where Zhu Yingtai's wedding sedan passed by, so that he could see Zhu Yingtai getting married. Zhu Yingtai learned that she was getting married in mourning clothes. When she passed Liang Shanbo's grave, she asked her to While worshiping in a sedan chair, he ran into someone unexpectedly and died in front of a willow tree.

The Legend of the Butterfly Lovers is the most radiant oral art in our country, and it is also the only Chinese folklore that has had a wide impact in the world.

Some people often call "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" "the "Romeo and Juliet" of the East" - however, "Liang Shanbo", which also embodies the human spirit of loyalty to love, is not only more popular than "Luo Zhu" is thousands of years earlier, and the content of the story is much more tortuous and vivid.

4. "The Legend of White Snake"

"The Legend of White Snake" became mature and popular in the Qing Dynasty and is a model of Chinese folk collective creation. It describes the tortuous love story between a snake spirit who cultivates into a human form and a human being. The story includes the story of borrowing an umbrella from a tented boat, the white lady stealing Ganoderma lucidum, flooding the Jinshan Mountain, the broken bridge, Leifeng Pagoda, Xu Xian's son Shilin offering sacrifices to the pagoda, Fa Hai escaping into the belly of a crab to escape death, etc.

It expresses the people's praise and yearning for the free love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable restraint of feudal forces. It is included in the "first batch of national intangible cultural heritage". And many film and television dramas and cartoons were filmed based on this story.

5. "The Legend of West Lake Longjing"

It is said that when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, he came to the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Longjing Mountain in Hangzhou and watched country girls picking tea to show his understanding of the people's sentiments. On this day, Emperor Qianlong saw several country girls picking tea in front of more than a dozen green tea trees. He felt happy and started picking tea too.

As soon as he picked a handful, the eunuch suddenly came to report: "The Queen Mother is sick, please return to Beijing quickly." Emperor Qianlong heard that the Queen Mother was sick, so he casually put a handful of tea leaves into the bag. He rushed back to the capital day and night. In fact, the Queen Mother's anger increased temporarily because she ate too much delicacies, her eyes were red and swollen, and her stomach was uncomfortable. She was not seriously ill.

Seeing the emperor's arrival at this time, he felt a refreshing fragrance and asked what good things he had brought. The emperor also felt strange, where did the fragrance come from. He touched it casually, ah, it turned out to be a handful of tea leaves from Shifeng Mountain in Hangzhou. It had dried after a few days, and the rich aroma came out of it.

The Queen Mother wanted to taste the tea. The palace maid brewed the tea and brought it to the Queen Mother. Sure enough, the tea was fragrant. The Queen Mother took a sip and her eyes immediately felt much more comfortable. After drinking the tea, the redness and swelling disappeared. No more stomach bloating.

The Queen Mother said happily: "The tea from Hangzhou Longjing is really a panacea." Seeing that the Queen Mother was so happy, Emperor Qianlong immediately sent an order to seal the eighteen tea trees in front of the Hu Gong Temple at the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Hangzhou Longjing. Royal tea, new tea is picked every year and dedicated to the Queen Mother. To this day, these eighteen imperial tea trees are still preserved in front of Hu Gong Temple in Longjing Village, Hangzhou.