Ten most famous folk stories in China.

Ten most famous folk stories in China: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, The Legend of the White Snake, Meng Jiangnu's Crying for the Great Wall, butterfly lovers, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, the legend of Longjing in the West Lake, the Miao people, the legend of Lu Ban's umbrella-making, the monk's ascension to heaven, and Kuafu's daily praise.

1. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is one of the most famous folk legends in China, and it is the earliest story about the stars of our people. There is such a passage in Ren Fang's "Narration of Different Stories" in the Northern and Southern Dynasties: "To the east of the river, there are beautiful women, who are the sons of the Heaven Emperor, and the sewing workers, who toil year after year and weave the clothes of clouds and silks. The hard work is extremely joyless, and the appearance is too messy to arrange. The Heaven Emperor pities him to be alone and marries the morning glory in Hexi. Since then, the work of weaving has been abolished and greed has been achieved. When the emperor is angry, he is responsible for Hedong and meets once a year. "

2. Legend of the White Snake

Legend of the White Snake has a long history and is a household name. It is one of the four major folklore in China (the other three are butterfly lovers, Meng Jiangnv and Cowherd and Weaver Girl). The legend of White Snake was mature and popular in Qing Dynasty, and it was a model of China folk collective creation. It describes a tortuous love story between a snake spirit who has cultivated into a human form and a human being.

3. Meng Jiangnu Crys for the Great Wall

Meng Jiangnu Crys for the Great Wall is a famous folklore in ancient China. It is widely circulated in the form of drama, ballads, poetry and rap, and is a household name. According to legend, during the reign of Qin Shihuang, the labor was heavy, and young men and women Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu were married for three days, so the groom was forced to set out to build the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnv was wearing cold clothes, and Wan Li came to the Great Wall to find her husband, but what she got was the bad news of her husband. She wept bitterly at the gate for three days and nights, and the city was torn apart, revealing Fan Xiliang's remains. Meng Jiangnv died in despair by throwing herself into the sea.

4. butterfly lovers

The legend of Liang Zhu is the most radiant oral inheritance art in China, and it is also the only China folklore that has a wide influence in the world. People often call butterfly lovers "Romeo and Juliet of the East"-however, the butterfly lovers, which also embodies the loyalty of human beings to love, are not only thousands of years earlier than Luo Zhu, but also have a much more tortuous and vivid story.

5. the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon

the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon is a fairy tale in ancient China. It tells the story that Chang 'e was forced by pang meng, but in desperation, she ate an immortal medicine given to her husband Hou Yi by the Queen Mother of the West and flew to the Moon Palace. The myth of "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" originated from the ancient people's worship of the stars. According to the existing written records, it first appeared in ancient books such as Huainanzi.

6. Legend of West Lake Longjing

West Lake Longjing is one of the top ten famous teas in China, which belongs to green tea. It is produced in the mountains around Longjing Village, West Lake, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, hence its name and has a history of more than 1,2 years. Legend has it that when Qing Qianlong visited the West Lake in Hangzhou, he praised the Longjing tea of the West Lake and named 18 tea trees in front of Hugong Temple under Shifeng Mountain as "imperial tea".

7. Miao folk

Miao folk stories are oral prose works that are created by working people and circulated among the people, with a broad background and a complete and interesting plot to express people's lives and thoughts. There are many animal stories, fables, fairy tales and jokes in Miao folk stories, such as Dogs Find their Owners, The Battle of Monkeys and Grasshoppers, The Song of Tickling Birds, The Grasshopper Kicks Birds' Eggs, The Story of Suoyun and so on. With fantasy and fictional plots, it contains praise and criticism, which has a strong interest and is loved by people.

8. The Legend of Lu Ban's Umbrella

Lu Ban is a brilliant inventor who is good at observing and inventing. Once upon a time, there was no umbrella, so it was inconvenient to go out and walk. When I met the poisonous sun, I was sunburned to death. When I met the heavy rain, I was soaked like a drowned rat. So Lu Ban and all the people made umbrellas.

9. The monk ascended to heaven

It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, there was an envoy in Luzhou Prefecture named Li Baozhen. When he arrived, the house was empty of money, and even officials and ranks could not pay for it. There was really nothing to be done, so someone gave him an idea that there was an old monk in the local area who was highly respected and the people listened to him. Why not let him come forward and ask the people to donate some money and things? As a result, the relief money exchanged for a human life is also counted as an old monk doing a good deed.

1. Kuafu daily

Ancient fairy tales. Legend has it that Kuafu was fierce and competitive, but he chased and raced with the sun, but he couldn't catch up. He was tired and thirsty on the road, and it was still not enough to drink the Yellow River and Weishui. He went to osawa in the north to find water to drink, but he died of thirst on the way. His walking stick was left on the ground, and later a peach grove grew.

For the above contents, please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Folk Stories (oral literature works in the form of prose).