Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a famous folk love story in ancient China. It is said that the granddaughter Weaver of the ancient Emperor of Heaven is very good at weaving, weaving rosy clouds for the sky every day. She hated this boring life, so she secretly descended to the world, married the cowherd in Hexi privately, and lived a life of male ploughing and female weaving.
This angered the Emperor of Heaven, took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, and ordered them to separate, allowing them to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Their unswerving love touched magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a magpie bridge across the Tianhe River with their bodies, so that the cowherd and the weaver girl could meet on the Tianhe River.
On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as "Chinese Valentine's Day", it is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the "Queqiao" once a year. For thousands of years, this ancient and touching love story has been handed down from generation to generation, and this day is also praised by modern people as the China version of Valentine's Day.
2. "Meng Jiangnv is crying at the Great Wall"
This is a famous ancient folklore in China. It is widely circulated in the form of drama, folk songs, 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 got married for three days. The groom was forced to start building the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold and fatigue, and his bones were buried under the walls of the Great Wall.
Meng Jiangnv wore a warm coat and went through a lot of hardships. Wan Li came to the Great Wall to look for her husband, but what he got was her bad news. She wept bitterly at the gate of the city for three days and nights, and the city was torn apart, revealing Fan Xiliang's body. Meng Jiangnv threw herself into the sea in despair.
The legend of Meng Jiangnv crying on the Great Wall is not only widely circulated in China's Shandong, Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Gansu, Hebei, Beijing, Henan, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, but also well known by people in Japan, Russia and other countries, and gradually forms various versions of the legend.
3. Liang Zhu
It's about the Western Jin Dynasty. Liang Zhu has been a classmate for three years, but he hasn't seen his daughter. Before Liang Shanbo died, he asked his family to bury himself by the road where Zhu Yingtai's wedding sedan chair passed, so that he could see Zhu Yingtai get married. Zhu Yingtai learned that he was married in mourning, and when he passed by Liang Shanbo's grave, he offered to get off the sedan chair to pay homage. As a result, he was killed in front of the willow tree while people were unprepared.
The legend of butterfly lovers is the most brilliant oral inheritance art in China, and it is also the only Chinese folk literature and art with extensive influence in the world.
People often call butterfly lovers "Romeo and Juliet in the East"-however, butterfly lovers, who also embodies human loyalty to love, is not only thousands of years earlier than Luo Zhu, but also has a much more tortuous and vivid story.
4. Legend of White Snake
The Legend of the White Snake was mature and popular in Qing Dynasty, and it is a model of China's folk collective creation. This paper describes a tortuous love story between a snake spirit who cultivates human form and human beings. Stories include the story of Wupeng boat borrowing an umbrella, the story of White Snake stealing Ganoderma lucidum, the story of flooding Jinshan, the story of broken bridge, the story of Leifeng Tower, the story of Xu Xian Shilin sacrificing the son of the tower, and the story of Fahai escaping from the crab's stomach.
It expresses the people's admiration for the free love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable bondage of feudal forces. It was listed as "the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage". According to this story, many TV dramas and cartoons were filmed.
5. the legend of west lake longjing
Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he came to the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Longjing, Hangzhou, and watched the country girls pick tea to show their affection. On this day, Emperor Qianlong saw several country girls picking tea at more than a dozen shady tea tables. He was very happy and learned to pick tea.
Just picked one, suddenly the eunuch came to report: "The Queen Mother is ill, please return to Beijing as soon as possible." When Emperor Qianlong heard that the Empress Dowager was ill, he put a handful of tea leaves in a bag and returned to Beijing day and night. In fact, the Queen Mother was not seriously ill because she ate too many delicacies. At that time, she got angry, her eyes were red and swollen, and her stomach was upset.
At this time, when I saw the arrival of the prince, I felt a faint fragrance and asked what good things I had brought. The emperor also wanted to know where the fragrance came from. He touched it casually. Ah, it turned out to be a handful of tea from Shifeng Mountain in Hangzhou. After a few days, it was dry and the rich aroma came out.
The queen mother wants to taste this tea. The maid-in-waiting made tea and sent it to the queen mother. Sure enough, the smell is fragrant. The queen mother took a sip and her eyes felt much more comfortable. After drinking tea, the redness disappeared and her stomach did not swell.
The queen mother said happily, "Hangzhou Longjing tea is really a panacea." Emperor Qianlong was so happy to see the Empress Dowager, and immediately ordered the eighteen tea trees in front of Gong Hu Temple under Shifeng Mountain in Longjing, Hangzhou to be named imperial tea, and the new tea was picked every year to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager. These eighteen kinds of imperial teas are still preserved in front of Gong Hu Temple in Longjing Village, Hangzhou.