Ancient Chinese love stories
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is the most famous folklore in China and the earliest story about stars by the Chinese people. There is this passage in "Shu Yi Ji" by Ren Fang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties: "East of the river, there is a beautiful woman, the son of the Emperor of Heaven. She is a clever female worker who works hard year after year to weave clothes made of clouds and silk. There is no joy in the hard work and her appearance is not beautiful. The Emperor of Heaven took pity on him for being alone, and married him to Hexi Morning Cow. From then on, he wasted his efforts in making troubles, and he was too angry to return to Hedong. They met once a year. "This is a love story that has been passed down through the ages. , is one of the four major folk love legends in China.
The faraway Altair, the clear river, the Han woman.
The slender hands are slender, and they are playing with the machine;
The whole day is unfinished, and the tears are like rain.
The river is clear and shallow, how far has it gone?
The water is full of water, and the pulse is speechless.
"The Milky Way in the sky, the Yi River underground" - the story of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" has spread all over the world and is a household name. Where it came from, almost no one knows. After extensive research by experts and scholars, it was discovered that the story of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" originally originated in Yanya Township, Yiyuan County, Shandong Province. Maybe the "Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" really existed, or maybe the real-life story of the "Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" is so touching that it has been constantly deified through the generations, even forming today's version of the fairy tale.
The Legend of the White Snake
The Legend of the White Snake
There have always been many beautiful legends about Hangzhou and the West Lake. The most beautiful and moving among them is undoubtedly the "Legend of the White Snake", so for a long time, Leifeng Pagoda and Broken Bridge have always been the most poetic places for tourists. But in fact, there is also a well-known legend about the origin of West Lake.
"The Legend of White Snake" is one of the "four major folk legends" in ancient China. "The Legend of White Snake" originated in the Northern Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. It originated in Xujiagou Village at the foot of the Black Mountain and on the bank of the Qi River in Tangyin, Henan (now Hebi City, Henan).
Heishan Mountain, where Xujiagou is located, is also known as Jinshan Mountain, Moshan Mountain, and Dashan Mountain. It was the land of Jizhou in ancient times and is one of the remaining veins of the Taihang Mountains. Here there are mountains and mountains, Qishui water circulation, lush trees, birds singing and flowers fragrant, the environment is quiet, Yasai Taoyuan. As early as the Wei and Jin dynasties, Zuo Si recorded the love story of "Lian Mei and Du Zi" in "Wei Du Fu": "The calf leads the ox and wanders in the Black Mountains, sometimes old and sometimes young, sometimes good and sometimes ugly. Later. Combined with the girl with eyebrows, no one can chase her..." Later, this allusion evolved into the story "White Snake troubles Xu Xian", and the heroine of the story also evolved from "girl with eyebrows" to white snake.
Broken Bridge in West Lake
The white snake spirit in "White Snake Trouble with Xu Xian" was once saved from the mouth of a black eagle by an old man named Xu in Xujiagou Village. In order to repay the Xu family's life-saving grace, this white snake married Xu Xian, a shepherd boy who was a descendant of the Xu family. After her marriage, she often used herbal medicine to treat villagers' illnesses, which made the incense of the nearby "Jinshan Temple" become desolate. It also made Black Eagle's reincarnated elder "Monk Fahai" of the "Jinshan Temple" very angry, and determined to destroy Xu Xian's marriage and set aside Xu Xian's marriage. The "white lady" died. This led to the familiar plots of "stealing fairy grass" and "water flooding Jinshan Temple". The white lady gave birth to her son Xu Shilin prematurely because the water flooded the Jinshan Mountain. Fahai took the opportunity to use the "golden bowl" to cover the white lady who had just given birth, and suppressed her under the "Leifeng Pagoda" in Nanshan. After this incident, Xu Xian became disheartened, so he became a monk under the "Leifeng Pagoda" and became a servant to protect the tower. Eighteen years later, Xu Shilin became the top scorer in high school and returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors and worship the pagoda. Only then did he rescue his mother and reunite his family.
Song of Everlasting Sorrow
Concubine Yang Guifei and Tang Minghuang
"Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty in China. This poem is the author's famous poem, written in 806 AD (the first year of Yuanhe). The whole poem vividly describes the love tragedy between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. The poet used historical figures and legends to create a moving and moving story, and through the artistic image he created, he reproduced the reality of real life and infected readers for thousands of years. The theme of the poem is "Eternal Regret".
Poetry
The emperor of Han Dynasty paid great attention to beauty and wanted to overwhelm the country, but he could not get it for many years.
There is a daughter in the Yang family who has just grown up. She is raised in a boudoir and no one knows her.
It’s hard to give up on natural beauty, and once you choose it, you will be on the side of the king.
Looking back and smiling, the sixth palace has no color.
In the cold spring, bathe in Huaqing Pool, and the hot spring water will wash away the fat.
When the waiter lifted up the weakling, it was the beginning of a new grace.
The flowers on the temples are swaying with golden steps, and the hibiscus tent warms the spring night.
The spring night is short and the sun is rising, so the king will not go to court early from now on.
There is no leisure for Cheng Huan to serve banquets, and he spends all his time traveling from spring to night.
There are three thousand beauties in the harem, and three thousand people love them all.
The golden house is made up to serve as a charming servant at night, and the jade house is drunk and spring after the banquet.
Sisters and brothers are all from the earth, poor and glorious.
This makes the hearts of parents all over the world not to be reborn as boys but as girls.
From the heights of Li Palace, blue clouds enter, and the wind of fairy music can be heard everywhere.
Slow singing, slow dancing, and silk and bamboo condensation, the king is not satisfied with it.
The Yuyang Gong stirs the earth and breaks the colorful clothes and feathers.
Smoke and dust arose from the Jiuchong City Tower, and thousands of horses rode southwest.
The green flowers wavered and stopped, more than a hundred miles west of the capital.
The Sixth Army had no choice but to turn around and die in front of E Mei Ma.
No one can collect the flowers and flowers on the ground, and scratch their heads with green and green gorse.
The king hid his face and could not be saved. Looking back, blood and tears flowed.
The yellow leaves are scattered in the wind, and the clouds linger in the sword pavilion.
There are few people walking at the foot of Mount Emei, and the flags are dull and the sun is thin.
The water of the Shu River is green and the mountains of Shu are green, and the Holy Lord is in love with him day and night.
Seeing the moon in the palace makes me sad, and hearing the sound of heartbroken bells in the rain at night.
The sky spins and the sun turns back to Long Yu. I hesitate and cannot go.
In the soil at the foot of Mawei slope, there is no place where Yu Yan died.
The monarch and his ministers looked after each other with all their clothes, and looked eastward to the capital to return home.
After returning, the ponds and gardens are all the same, with Taiye hibiscus and willows still growing.
Hibiscus is like a face and willows are like eyebrows, how can I not shed tears about this?
The peach and plum blossoms bloom in the spring breeze at night, and the sycamore leaves fall in the autumn rain.
There are many autumn grasses in the West Palace Nanyuan, and the fallen leaves are full of red leaves that are not swept away.
The disciples in Liyuan have new white hair, and the prisoner Qing'e in Jiaofang is old.
The fireflies in the evening palace are quietly thinking, and the solitary lamp has been exhausted before falling asleep.
The long night begins with bells and drums, and the stars are about to dawn.
The mandarin duck tiles are frosty and the flowers are heavy, and the jade quilt is cold, who is the winner?
After so many years of separation between life and death, my soul never came to sleep.
Linqiong Taoist priests from Hongdu can reach the soul with their sincerity.
In order to appreciate the king's thoughts, he taught the alchemists to search diligently.
Empty and control the energy, it rushes like lightning, ascending to the sky and entering the earth to find the direction.
The blue sky above and the yellow spring below are nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly I heard that there was a fairy mountain on the sea, and the mountain was ethereal.
The exquisite pavilion is filled with five clouds, among which there are many fairies.
There is a person in the book who has a very real character and a snow-skinned and colorful appearance.
Knock on the jade in the west chamber of the Golden Palace, and if you turn to the small jade, you will be rewarded with double success.
Hearing about the emperor’s envoy from the Han family, the dream soul in Jiuhua tent was frightened.
Wandering around while holding clothes and pushing pillows, the silver screen of beads and foil spreads out.
The hair on the temples is half fresh and sleeping, and the flower crown is not neat when I come out of the hall.
The wind blows and the fairy's sleeves flutter, just like the dancing of colorful clothes and feathers.
The jade face is lonely and full of tears, and a branch of pear blossom brings rain in spring.
Looking at the king with affection, his voice and appearance are blurry.
Love is overwhelming in Zhaoyang Palace, and the sun and moon grow long in Penglai Palace.
Turning back and looking down at the world, Chang'an is nowhere to be seen, dust and mist are visible.
Only the old things show deep affection, and the tin alloy hairpins are sent to the future.
Leave one strand of the hairpin and combine it into a fan; break the hairpin into gold and combine it into two pieces.
But the heart of teaching is as strong as gold, and we will meet in heaven and on earth.
I sent my farewell message again with sincerity, in which I vowed to know each other.
On July 7th, in the Palace of Eternal Life, no one was whispering in the middle of the night.
In the sky, I wish to be a winged bird, and on earth, I wish to be a twig. As time goes by, this hatred will last forever.
The Romance of the West Chamber
"The Romance of the West Chamber"
The story of "The Romance of the West Chamber" originated from the legendary novel "The Story of Yingying" written by Yuan Zhen in the Tang Dynasty. It tells the story of the scholar Zhang Gong and his contemporaries. Cui Yingying, the late Xiangguo's daughter who lived in Pujiu Temple, fell in love. With the help of the maid matchmaker, the two went on a date in the west chamber, and Yingying finally committed herself to her. Later, Zhang Gong went to Beijing to take the exam and got a high-ranking official position, but abandoned Yingying, which led to a love tragedy. It is also said that Yuan Zhen borrowed Zhang Sheng's autobiographical novel or story. This story became more widespread in the Song and Jin Dynasties, and some literati and folk artists adapted it into rap and drama. The multiple dramas "The Romance of the West Chamber" written by Wang Shifu were processed and created based on such rich artistic accumulation.
Historically, the beautiful wish "May all lovers in the world be married" has become the theme of countless literary works. "The Romance of the West Chamber" is the most successful drama that depicts this theme.
Spring rain falls in the courtyard at dusk.
A deep heart, a hundred kinds of connections.
Qingyi suddenly came to announce the good news. The fish note is a hint of compatibility.
People in the West Wing cannot sleep until the moon is full.
The shadows on the curtain flicker, and the Zhuhu is still closed.
The flowers move and the red calyx falls on the wall. It is clearly suspected that a lover has arrived.
This is an enviable marriage. Even after going through many difficulties and obstacles, the lovers finally got married. It seems that Pujiu Temple is a Feng Shui treasure place to encounter beautiful love!
Feng Qiuhuang
Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru
The legend of "Feng Qiuhuang" is a guqin piece written by Sima Xiangru, a writer in the Han Dynasty. It tells the story of Sima Xiangru. The love story of Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun. The "phoenix seeking huang" as a general metaphor not only contains the passionate courtship, but also symbolizes the extraordinary ideals of the hero and heroine, the noble purpose, the tacit understanding of bosom friends and other rich connotations. The whole poem has simple words but deep meaning, fluent syllables, warm and unrestrained but deep and lingering emotions, blending the charming and lingering style of Chu Ci and the freshness and liveliness of Han Dynasty folk songs. Even if it is a work forged by later generations, it does not weaken its artistic value. There are many poems, novels, songs, movies and TV shows with the same name in the past dynasties.
After parting ways, the two places fell in love. It was March and April, but who knew it was five or six years ago.
The lyre has no heart to play, the eight-line script cannot be passed down, and the nine-stringed chain is broken from it.
The ten-mile long pavilion is full of sight. All kinds of resentment, all kinds of thoughts, all kinds of helplessness to complain.
Most educated people know the story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun’s elopement, but perhaps most people don’t know that they eloped not to a romantic city, but to central Sichuan. In this small town, they opened a restaurant and began their ordinary life. Of course, talented people and beautiful women are always unwilling to live in such a small life...
Zhuo Wenjun sold wine on the counter, and Zhuo Wangsun was very angry and couldn't bear it. The beloved daughter was exposed and made fun of, so he had to give her part of the property. Sima Xiangru later came to the capital to present gifts to the emperor, which was appreciated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and gave him an official position. Sima Xiangru wanted to marry Maoling girl as a concubine in the capital. Zhuo Wenjun heard the news and wrote this white-headed chant to express his severance of kindness.
It is as white as snow on the mountain and as bright as the moon among the clouds.
I heard that you had two opinions, so I came to resolve it.
Today’s drinking party will be tomorrow’s ditch.
The ducks are dancing on the ditch, and the ditch water flows east and west.
Desolate and miserable, there is no need to cry when getting married.
I wish to have the person of my heart and stay together forever.
Why are the bamboo poles curling up, and the fish tails are so sticky!
A man cares about his spirit, why use money and a knife!
The Peacock Flying Southeast
Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing
"The Peacock Flying Southeast" is the first long narrative poem in the history of Chinese literature. Shen Guiyu called it "ancient and modern" "The first long poem", so it is also known as the longest narrative poem in ancient Chinese history. It is one of the glorious poems in ancient Chinese folk literature. "Peacock Flying Southeast" and "Mulan Ci" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties are also known as "Yuefu" "Double Jade" and "Double Jade in Narrative Poetry".
Later, "Peacock Flying Southeast", "Mulan Poems" and "Qin Women's Song" by Wei Zhuang of the Tang Dynasty were collectively called the "Three Wonders of Yuefu". They were based on what happened in Lujiang County (governing Shu County in the Eastern Han Dynasty) during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. County, both in present-day Anhui Province), a marriage tragedy. "The Peacock Flies Southeast" uses the love tragedy of the loving couple Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing to indict the sins of feudal ethics, patriarchal rule and clan concepts, and expresses the reasonable desire of young men and women to demand independence in marriage and love. The heroine Liu Lanzhi was loyal to love, and her uncompromising struggle against feudal forces and feudal ethics made her a rebellious woman image in the history of literature, and was praised by subsequent young men and women.
When the heart is broken, the sound of autumn is particularly sad.
If the sky is not as expected, I am willing to accompany you in life and death.
The river is shining up and down, and the setting sun is hanging down on everything. , no parting is sad, when and where will we meet in this infatuated water?
I would like lovers to drink a river of water, and there are no heart-breaking tears in the tenderness outside the world of mortals
But sincerely ask what you should fear or regret in this life, the peacock flies southeast...
Jiaoli Port is obviously a small town named after Jiao Zhongqing. People here may still be thinking about this pair of people who were captured. The shackles of feudal marriage are cruel to the crazy men and resentful women...
A match made by a fairy
A match made by a fairy
The birds on the trees are in pairs, and the green water and green mountains bring smiles.
From now on, they will no longer suffer the pain of slavery, and both husband and wife will return their home.
You plow the fields while I weave cloth, and I carry water for you to water the gardens.
Although the cold kiln is broken, it can provide shelter from wind and rain, but the love between husband and wife is bitter and sweet.
You and I are like mandarin ducks, flying together in the world.
"The Fairy's Match" is a traditional classic play of Anqing Huangmei Opera. The content tells that Dong Yong sold his body to bury his father. The seventh daughter of the Jade Emperor (Seven Fairies) felt deep sympathy and secretly descended to earth to marry Dong under a locust tree. One hundred days later, the Jade Emperor sent the Pagoda King and the Four King Kongs to force the Seven Fairies to return to heaven, and the couple reluctantly parted ways under the locust tree. The story of Dong Yong's filial piety has been seen in Cao Zhi's "Lingzhi Pian" and Qian Bao's "Sou Shen Ji" during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The opera may be called "Bamboo Brocade", "Hundred Days of Marriage" and "Locust Tree". The compiled version of Huangmei Opera is more influential.
Xiaogan, Hubei, is a small town with filial piety culture as its character. This is the hometown of the filial son Dong Yong, and it is also where the love legend between Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies began!
Chang'e Flying to the Moon
Chang'e Flying to the Moon
Chang'e Flying to the Moon is an ancient myth and one of the top ten ancient love stories in my country.
How did Chang'e fly to the moon? There are various versions in ancient books. According to the record in "Huainanzi", Hou Yi went to the Queen Mother of the West to ask for the elixir of immortality, but Chang'e stole all the elixir and fled to the moon. After Chang'e flew to the moon, she soon regretted it. She thought of her husband's daily kindness to her and the warmth of the world. Compared with the loneliness in the moon, she felt even more desolate. "Huainanzi · Eight Outer Chapters" says that Yi invited the Queen Mother of the West for the elixir of immortality. After hearing about it, Peng Meng went to steal it. If he failed to steal it, he would harm Chang'e. In desperation, Chang'e swallowed the elixir and flew to the sky. Because she couldn't bear to leave Yi, Chang'e stayed in Guanghan Palace of the Moon. The loneliness in Guanghan Palace was unbearable, so he urged Wu Gang to cut down the osmanthus trees and let the Jade Rabbit pound the medicine, hoping to prepare a medicine for ascension so that he could return to the world and reunite with Yi as soon as possible.
A Dream of Red Mansions
A Dream of Red Mansions
"A Dream of Red Mansions" is one of the four great classics in ancient China. It is a chapter novel and was written in 1784 (the fortieth year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty). nine years). The preface to the master of Mengjue is officially titled "A Dream of Red Mansions", and its original names were "The Story of the Stone", "The Record of the Love Monk", "The Mirror of the Wind and the Moon", "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling", etc. It is the greatest novel in ancient China and one of the classics of world literature. Author Cao Xueqin.
The current popular sequel is the 120-chapter "Dream of Red Mansions" written by Gao E.
"Dream of Red Mansions" is a great work with high ideological and artistic qualities, and can represent the highest level of classical novel art. It inherits the network structure characteristics of "Jin Ping Mei", with the daily life of Rongguo Mansion as the center, the love tragedy of Bao Daichai and the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden as the main line, and the Jinling aristocratic family Jia, Wang, Xue and Shi Si. The history of a big family from prosperity to decline is a hidden line. It shows the inevitable trend that the feudal society at the end of its rope will eventually perish. With its tortuous and obscure expression techniques, desolate and profound emotional style, and strong and lofty ideological heritage, it incorporates the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought and brings together the essence of encyclopedia. It has irreplaceable research value and reaches the peak of my country's classical novels. "Dream of Red Mansions" was circulated in the form of a manuscript called "The Story of the Stone" in the early stages of its circulation. There are only eighty chapters in the manuscript (according to research by some scholars, the number of manuscripts that have been handed down is actually 79 chapters. The number of chapters in the surviving manuscript is Chapter 80 is only the second half of Chapter 79, which was split by later generations to make up the whole number of Chapter 80; some scholars believe that the current chapters 79 and 80 are both sequels mixed in).
Since the Qianlong period, various sequels to "A Dream of Red Mansions" have been released one after another. According to statistics from relevant scholars, there are more than a hundred types of sequels to "Dream of Red Mansions", such as "After Dream of Red Mansions", "After Dream of Red Mansions", "Continuation of Dream of Red Mansions", "Dream of Red Mansions Returned", "Dream of Red Mansions Supplement", "Supplement to Red Mansions", "Red Mansions", "A Dream of Red Mansions", etc.