What are the beautiful legends about Jiangnan?

There is a Bailong Cave on Jinshan in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in Zhenjiang. There is a beautiful white snake in the cave. In order to repay the young Xu Xian for saving his life, he married Xu Xian in the West Lake. After the White Niangzi couple opened a "Baohetang" pharmacy in Wu Jie Street, Zhenjiang, and applied drugs to help the poor.

Unexpectedly, all this angered Fahai, the abbot of Jinshan Temple. Fahai wanted to break up White Snake and Xu Xian, a loving couple, and designed Dragon Boat Festival to force White Snake to show her true colors with realgar wine, which scared Xu Xian to death.

In order to save Xu Xian, White Snake and Maid Xiaoqing bravely stole the fairy grass. However, Fahai tricked Xu Xian into Jinshan, and the husband and wife separated. After the white snake flooded Jinshan, it met the broken bridge in Xu Xian and made up again. Unexpectedly, Fahai appeared again, and the white snake was placed under the Leifeng Tower with a purple and gold bowl. Finally, Xiaoqing practiced hard for several years, and finally struggled to overthrow the Leifeng Tower, rescue the white snake and achieve a happy reunion.

2. Poems praising Jiangnan:

1, "Everyone says Jiangnan is good"

Tang Dynasty: Wei Zhuang

Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists should stay in Jiangnan until they are old. The spring water is greener than the sky, and tourists can sleep on the boat listening to the rain. The women selling wine in Jiangnan restaurant are all very beautiful, and their arms exposed when selling wine are as white as snow. Don't go home when the light is not fading. It must be extremely sad to go home.

Translation:

Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists should stay in Jiangnan until they are old. In spring, the river is clear and green, bluer than the sky. Visitors can fall asleep listening to the rain on the painted boat. The woman selling wine in Jiangnan restaurant is very beautiful, and her arms are as white as snow when selling wine. Don't go back to your hometown when you are young, it will be extremely sad to go home.

2. "Water Fairy Chants for Jiangnan"

Yuan dynasty: Zhang

The sun shines on the river, and thin smoke rises. The eaves painted by people on both sides of the strait are connected, and the beams are connected. The river is surrounded by lotus flowers, so it is quiet. Looking at Sha Ou, it turns around on the river, and the curtains of every household are full of fragrant wind. Beautiful boats seem to fall from the sky, and the flag of the restaurant flutters in the wind. People really love Jiangnan!

Translation:

The sun shone on the river and raised thin smoke. The eaves painted by people on both sides of the strait are connected, and the beams are connected. There are many lotus flowers on the river, and Qiu Guang is desolate. Look, Sha Ou flies and hovers over the river again and again, and the fragrant wind is floating in every bead curtain. Beautiful ships seem to be coming from the horizon, and the flag of the restaurant is flying in the wind. How lovely, Jiangnan!

Extended information Jiangnan is a place with outstanding people and beautiful mountains and rivers. Since ancient times, "Jiangnan" has always been a constantly changing and flexible regional concept, but it always represents a beautiful and rich water town scene; Up to now, it is also a developed area with superior natural conditions, abundant natural resources, developed commodity production, complete industrial categories and the highest comprehensive economic level in China.

In different historical periods, the literary image of Jiangnan is different. Jiangnan first appeared in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River where the vassal states of wuyue were located, namely, Shanghai, Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, eastern Jiangxi, northwestern Jiangxi and other areas south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Since ancient times, there have been administrative divisions such as Huiji County, Wu Jun County, Jiangnan Road, Jiangnan Road and Liangzhu Road in the Han nationality areas in the south of the Yangtze River.

Compared with the north, the most obvious features of the terrain in the south of the Yangtze River are hills, plains and waters.

Jiangnan is located in the hilly plain of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with high terrain in the south and low terrain in the north. Its northern part is flat, mainly plains and hills, while some mountains are distributed in the south. In addition to abundant precipitation, there are two major water systems in the south of the Yangtze River and Qiantang River, which are connected by canals.

There are many rivers and lakes in the south of the Yangtze River. There are three famous freshwater lakes in China, namely Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, Dongting Lake in Hunan and Taihu Lake in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In the long-term development process, a large number of water conservancy projects have been built to connect them, such as Wu Zixu Kaixuxi, Fucha Ditch and Jiangnan Canal. Therefore, it has always enjoyed the reputation of "Water Town Zeguo". The physical geography of the south of the Yangtze River formed under such climate and topography is significantly different from that of the north.