What are the four famous folklores in China?

The orphan cowherd lives on his elder sister. 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 each other and told him that if the fairies didn't come back before dawn, they would 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 her. 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. The little fairy found that her clothes were gone and had to stay. The cowherd met the little weaver girl. Later, they hit it off and understood their difficulties. The Weaver Girl became the wife of the Cowherd.

After marriage, 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 ordered the Queen Mother 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 Emperor of Heaven 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.

2. Meng Jiangnv

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 gate for three days and nights, and this section of the Great Wall collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's body. Meng Jiangnu buried Fan Xiliang and threw herself into the sea in despair.

3. Liang Zhu

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. Walking to the side of Shanbo's tomb, Yingtai insisted on getting off the sedan chair, wept bitterly and worshipped the dead, died of excessive grief and was buried in the east side of Shanbo's tomb.

It is said that when Yingtai was forced to get married, she made a detour to worship Liang Shanbo's tomb. Under the guidance of Zhu Yingtai's mourning, the tomb burst, Yingtai jumped into the tomb, the tomb reunited, the wind stopped raining, the rainbow hung high, and Liang Zhu turned into a butterfly, flying in the world.

4. White Snake and Xu Xian

The legend of White Snake was mature and popular in Qing Dynasty, and it was a model of China 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.