The main content of four China folk stories is about 50 words.

The four major folk stories in China mainly include Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnv, Legend of the White Snake and Cowherd and Weaver Girl. The four stories tell the love stories of ancient people, and express their desire for free love, which has a far-reaching impact on future generations.

Butterfly Lovers

According to legend, during the Western Jin Dynasty in China, a young student named Liang Shanbo left home to study, but he met Zhu Yingtai, a student disguised as a man. As soon as they met, they became like-minded, so they became brothers in Caoqiao and later came to Hongluoshan Academy. In the academy, the two get along day and night, and their feelings are getting deeper and deeper. Three years later, Yingtai returned to China, and Shanbo sent him for eighteen miles. They said goodbye. Shanbo, instructed by his mistress, came to Zhujiajian to propose marriage with the butterfly jade fan left by Yingtai. After returning home, he was sad and angry, and he couldn't afford to get sick and died. Yingtai was heartbroken to hear that Shanbo died for himself. Soon, the Ma family came to get married, and Yingtai was so angry that she got into a sedan chair. The sedan chair detoured to the tomb of Liang Shanbo, and Yingtai insisted on getting off the sedan chair, weeping and worshiping the dead, and died of excessive grief and was buried in the east side of Shanbo's tomb; It is also said that when worshipping sacrifices, the thunder broke the tomb and Yingtai entered the grave. Liang Zhu became a dancing butterfly.

Legend of the White Snake

In the Song Dynasty, the White Snake was a snake demon trained for thousands of years. In order to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving his life in his last life, he turned into a human figure to repay his kindness. Later, I met the green snake essence Xiaoqing and they got together. Mrs White Snake used his magic to get to know Xu Xian and marry him. After the marriage, the monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple told Xu Xian that White Snake was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical. Later, according to Fahai's method, Xu Xian asked the White Snake to drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mrs White Snake had to show his true colors, but he scared Xu Xian half to death. The White Snake went to Heaven to steal the fairy grass Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian. Fahai tricked Xu Xian into Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. The White Snake fought with Fahai, flooded Jinshan Temple, but hurt other creatures. After giving birth, the White Snake who broke the dogma was put into a bowl by Fahai and suppressed under the Leifeng Tower. Mrs. White Snake's son became the best scholar when he grew up. He went to the tower to worship his mother, saved her and reunited the whole family.

Niu Lang and Zhi Nu/Cowherd and the Weaver Maid

Cowherd is an orphan in Niujiazhuang, who lives on her elder sister-in-law. Sister-in-law is very mean and often abuses him. He was forced to leave his family and live on an old cow. This old cow is very psychic. One day, the weaver girl and the fairies took a bath together in the river. The old cow advised the cowherd to meet him and told him that if the fairies didn't come back before dawn, he would have to stay on earth. So the cowherd stayed by the river to see the seven fairies. He found the youngest fairy beautiful and suddenly fell in love with it. Thinking of the old cow, the cowherd quietly took the little fairy's clothes. The fairies took a bath and prepared to return to heaven. Married fairies, they farm and weave, have a son and a daughter, and live a very happy life. Unexpectedly, the Emperor of Heaven discovered this matter and sent the Empress Dowager to escort the Weaver Girl back to heaven for trial. The old cow couldn't bear to see their wife and children separated, so she touched the horn on her head and turned it into a boat for the cowherd to chase with her children. On the verge of catching up with Weaver Girl, the Queen Mother suddenly tore off the golden hairpin on her head and drew a rolling galaxy in the sky. Cowherd can't cross the river, so he can only look at the river and cry with Weaver Girl. Their faithful love touched magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a colorful bridge on the Tianhe River with their bodies, so that the cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Tianhe River. The Jade Emperor had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet at the Magpie Bridge once a year on July 7th, and the magpies would be around. Cowherd and Weaver Girl will meet on July 7th every year.

Meng Jiangnv cries at the Great Wall.

According to legend, when Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, his work was very heavy. Fan Xiliang, a young man and woman, married Meng Jiangnu for three days, and the groom was forced to start building the Great Wall. Soon, he died of hunger, cold and fatigue, and his bones were buried under 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, only to get the bad news of her husband's death. She cried at the city gate for seven days and seven nights. This section of the Great Wall collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's body. Meng Jiangnu buried Fan Xiliang in despair and threw herself into the sea.