Folktales, operas, legendary bridges

Zhaozhou Bridge - Zhang Guo rides a donkey upside down; "Eight Immortals Across the Sea".

Broken Bridge - The Legend of the White Snake;

1. Queqiao

Magpie Bridge, also known as Wu Que Bridge, Queqiao is a legend that the bird god is the cowherd.

The sincere emotions of the weaver girl moved the bridge built by the magpie sent by him. Legend has it that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are separated by the Milky Way and are only allowed to meet on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.

In order to let the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, magpies from all over the world will fly over and build a bridge with their bodies close to each other, and this bridge is called Magpie Bridge. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on this magpie bridge.

2. West Lake Broken Bridge

White Lady. Acquaintance with Xu Xian here, return to the city in the same boat, and borrow an umbrella to make love; Later, they met here again, and they reconciled.

Yue opera "The Legend of the White Snake".

The white lady sang: "The landscape of the West Lake is still ......Seeing that the broken bridge and bridge were not broken, I was broken, and I was deeply affectionate! "It has always been tear-jerking, giving endless remembrance to every tourist who visits the broken bridge.

3. Play the piano bridge

In the town of Nanqiao. Hundreds of meters to the north, there is a small stone bridge originally, the name of the piano bridge. Legend has it that there was a surname Qian a long time ago.

The official eunuch gave birth to three daughters, and the younger girl played the piano well. There is a young man named Han Zhong nearby, who is also a master of playing the piano.

After a long time, the two bosom friends fell in love with each other, but Master Qian did not allow it, so the little girl had to persuade Han to re-enter the capital to practice the piano and seek fame, so that her father could agree to their marriage. Han said goodbye in tears. But Qian forced the little girl to marry a powerful person, and the little girl missed Han Zhong and died of hatred.

Soon, Han Chong returned, and learned that the insider was deceased, so he sat cross-legged on the small stone bridge and played a sad song to express his nostalgia. After playing, he threw himself into the river and died.

1. Nai He Bridge. There are two popular theories about the Nai Ho Bridge. One says that there is a river named Nai River in the prefecture, and the other says that because of the meaning of "helpless" in Chinese, it just corresponds to the regret and helplessness of people who wish to be born when they are reincarnated.

In Chinese Taoism and Chinese folk mythology, the bridge is a place to give people reincarnation, where an elderly female deity named Meng Po is given a bowl of Meng Po soup to forget the memories of the past life and be reincarnated in the next life.

2. Zhaozhou Bridge. Built in the Sui Dynasty by the famous craftsman Li Chun, the Zhaozhou Bridge has a history of about 1,400 years, and is the earliest and best-preserved ancient open-shouldered stone arch bridge. The most well-preserved ancient single-hole open-shoulder stone arch bridge.

According to legend, Lu Ban traveled around the world through Zhaozhou and encountered the Huhe River blocking the way, so under the touch and help of God, the Zhaozhou Bridge was caused overnight, Penglai Xiandao Immortal Zhang Guolao and Chai Wang Ye heard the news and came to ** Actually, the two used spells to try to collapse the bridge, but Lu Ban still topped the Zhaozhou Bridge with his bare hands.

The folk tale that impressed me the most was of course the story of the meeting at the Magpie Bridge, and the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was very beautiful.