If a person is greedy and never satisfied, we will say that he has "a heart that is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant." If the desire is not satisfied and they do the unimaginable and unattainable things like "a snake swallowing an elephant", such a person will be harmed by his own desire. The following are the legends and allusions of She Tun Xiang that I have carefully compiled. I hope it will be helpful to you. The legend of the snake swallowing the elephant Chapter 1

According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, there was a family with only two people in a village in Shenze. The mother was old and sick and could not work. The son Wang Wang, who was thirty years old, He has not yet found a wife, so he relies on selling some grass to make ends meet, and his life is very hard.

On this day, Wang Wang went to the north of the village to pull weeds as usual. Unintentionally, he found a seven-inch-long piebald snake in the grass. It was covered with wounds and could not move. Wang Wang moved. Feeling pity, he took it home and carefully rinsed and applied the medicine for it. After the snake regained consciousness, it nodded towards Wang Wan to express its gratitude. The mother and son were very happy to see this and hurriedly made up a poem for it. Xiaojing basket carefully put the snake in. From then on, Wang Wang, mother and son took good care of the snake. The snake's wounds gradually healed, and the snake's body gradually grew bigger. It always seemed to want to talk to them, and it was very cute. It adds a lot of fun to the monotonous and lonely life of mother and son.

As the days passed, Wang Wang continued to work as usual, his mother continued to guard the house, and the little snake stayed in the basket all day long. One day, the little snake found it boring to be bored in the house, so he crawled into the yard to bask in the sun. Unexpectedly, the snake was exposed to the sun and became as thick and long as a beam. Seeing such a scene, the Queen Mother screamed and fainted. Die in the past. When Wang Wang came back, the snake had returned to the house and restored its original shape. However, it anxiously said to Wang Wang in human language: "I was rude today and scared my mother to death. Please take off the three strips from me quickly." Make some small pieces of skin, add some weeds, boil them in a pot, and let your mother drink it and it will be fine." Wang Huan said, "No, this will hurt your body, so think of other ways." He urged, "It doesn't matter, hurry up, I can withstand it." Wang Wan had no choice but to obey with tears. After the mother drank the soup, she quickly woke up. The mother and son were grateful and puzzled, but no one said anything. Wang Wan recalled the golden light in the snake basket every night, and felt that this snake was extraordinary.

It is said that Song Renzong ignored the government affairs all day long, and the life in the palace was nothing new day after day. He felt bored. If he wanted a luminous pearl to play with, he posted a notice asking who could offer one. Just get an official title and receive a reward. This matter reached Wang Wu's ears. When he returned home and told the snake, the snake pondered for a while and said: "You have been very kind to me in the past few years, and you have helped me save my life. I always wanted to repay the favor, but I never had the chance. Now I finally can." I have done something for you. To tell you the truth, my eyes are like two night pearls. If you dig out one of my eyes and give it to the emperor, you will be promoted and make a fortune, and my mother will be able to live her old age peacefully. After hearing this, he was very happy, but after all, he had feelings for the snake and couldn't bear to do it. He said: "That is too cruel, and you will be in unbearable pain." The snake said: "It doesn't matter, I can withstand it." So. , Wang Wang dug out one of the snake's eyes, went to the capital the next day, and presented the orb to the emperor. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had never seen such a strange orb and were full of praise. At night, the orb gave off a strange brilliance and illuminated the entire palace. The emperor was very happy and made the king a high official and rewarded him with a lot of gold. Silver treasure.

After the emperor saw the orb, he appreciated it very much and took it for himself. The Empress of the West Palace saw it and wanted one too. As a last resort, Song Renzong ordered to search for the orb again and said that the position of prime minister should be reserved for the third emperor. The two people offering treasures, Wang Huan thought, if I get the snake's second eye and offer it, wouldn't the prime minister be mine? So he went to the emperor and said that he could still find one. The emperor happily gave the prime minister to him. But he never expected that when Wang Wang's guards went to get the second eye, the snake refused to give it anyway, saying that he had to meet Wang Wang to get it. Okay, Wang Wang had no choice but to come and see the snake in person. When the snake saw Wang Wu, he advised him bluntly: "In order to repay you, I have given you one eye. You have also been promoted and made a fortune, so don't ask for my second eye. People must not be greedy." Wang Wan was already obsessed with his thoughts and couldn't hear it anymore. He said shamelessly: "Don't I want to be the prime minister? How can I become the prime minister if you don't give it to me? Besides, I have already told the emperor about this and the official position was given to me. If you don't give up, you can help me!" He insisted on taking out the second eye. Seeing that he had become so greedy and cruel, the snake became very angry and said, "Okay then! Go! But you have to put me in the yard before you pick it up." Wang Wang couldn't wait any longer, and without analyzing the snake's words, he immediately agreed and put the snake in the sunny yard, then went back to the house to get the knife. , when he came out to cut out the orb, the snake's body had turned into a beam, and it gasped at him with its mouth wide open. Wang Wang was so frightened that his soul was gone. It was too late to run away, and the snake swallowed the greedy man in one bite. The Legend of a Snake Swallowing an Elephant Chapter 2

Once upon a time, a farmer went up the mountain to cut firewood and saw a little snake that was frozen stiff and very pitiful. The farmer put it in his arms and took it home to feed it.

The little snake slowly grew into a big snake. When it was able to live on its own, the farmer put it in a cave behind the mountain. It drank from the mountain spring when it was thirsty and ate wild fruits when it was hungry. The big snake was naturally very grateful to the farmer.

After some time, a small Ganoderma lucidum grew from the entrance of the big snake's stone cave. It carefully guarded and cultivated the Ganoderma lucidum, and the Ganoderma lucidum grew bigger and bigger, becoming more magical as it grew.

Everyone wants to get it, but because of the snake's protection, no one dares to get close.

The emperor found out about this, so he ordered people to post an imperial list everywhere: Whoever can pick this Ganoderma lucidum will receive a heavy reward. The farmer wanted to get a reward, so he begged the snake to give him Ganoderma lucidum. The big snake agreed to his request, and the farmer presented Ganoderma lucidum to the emperor and was rewarded with a batch of gold and silver treasures.

Some days later, the queen became blind, and the imperial doctor said that only the eyes of dragons and snakes could cure her. The emperor thought of the farmer who offered Ganoderma lucidum again, and ordered him to dig out the snake's eyes. Promise him to make him prime minister after he succeeds.

The farmer got rich and wanted to be an official, so he came again and begged the snake to give him an eyeball. The big snake had no choice but to let him dig out one of his eyes. The queen's eyesight was restored, and the farmer became the prime minister.

After he became the prime minister, he was pampered and enjoyed endless glory and wealth. He was afraid that he would die one day and leave behind his millions of wealth. So, I thought of the method of immortality.

Hearing that eating the heart of a dragon or a snake could lead to immortality, he went to the mountains to find the big snake and asked for another heart to grant him immortality.

Seeing that he was so greedy, the big snake opened its mouth and asked him to dig. As soon as the greedy prime minister came near, he was swallowed by the big snake and never came back. The Legend of the Snake Swallowing the Elephant Chapter 3

There was a child named Xiang who loved small animals since he was a child and was very careful.

His mother adopted a snake-like animal one day from a matchbox! As time goes by, the "snake" that was originally adopted from a matchbox is no longer a small thing. It has grown to the shape of a giant dragon, with the momentum to swallow people. But the snake did not harm the elephant, but treated the elephant as its master.

One day, Xiang's mother fell ill, and the doctor said that snake gall would be needed to make the disease less likely to spread quickly. When the elephant had a headache and was troubled, the snake opened its mouth wide to let the elephant enter its body and cut out the snake's gallbladder. The elephant entered the snake's body, felt the snake's pain, cut out the snake's gallbladder, and cured the mother's disease.

But the greedy mother wanted to cut the snake's gallbladder again. As a result, when Xiang was cutting the snake's gallbladder, the snake couldn't stand the pain, so it swallowed a mouthful of saliva and swallowed the elephant as well.

The sad snake turned into a giant dragon and flew into the sky, and there was a burst of voices: "The human heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant." Chapter 4 of the legend of the snake swallowing the elephant

By the Huaihe River There once lived a teacher named Feng. His wife died in childbirth. Because he was afraid that the woman he remarried would be bad for his son, and the income from teaching was not generous, Feng never returned. Marry and live with your son by yourself. His son's name is Xiang. He is very naughty because he has no maternal love and his father teaches and has no time to take care of him. Poor Xiang has no mother and depends on him for everything big and small. He is reluctant to beat or scold him, so Xiang becomes lazy and selfish.

One year in late autumn, Feng found a little flower snake curled up in a ball and trembling in the cold wind on his way home. He looked very pitiful. Feng sympathized with this little flower snake that had no parents to care about, so he carefully picked up the snake, put it in an armhole to keep it warm, and later simply took it home.

My son Xiang also likes this snake very much and often goes to the fields to catch frogs for it to eat. Thanks to careful feeding by the father and son, the little flower snake grows rapidly and eats more and more. Just catching frogs can no longer feed it. So Feng decided to release the flower snake into the reeds. After living with the father and son for more than ten years, the flower snake was very reluctant to leave, but it knew that Feng was old and Xiang was lazy and lazy. The life of the father and son had plummeted, and it had nowhere to live, so it had to leave. The flower snake nodded repeatedly to Feng, thanked its master for raising him, then swam into the reeds and disappeared.

Year after year, Feng became older and older. He was worried about his son’s future life and said to him many times: "Father is old and there is not much time left. You go and learn something." Just do it, you can make a living on your own in the future."

Xiang didn't take it seriously every time he heard it, and said to Feng: "Father, as the saying goes, the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge. Don't worry." Seeing his son like this, Feng regretted his pampering, and often shook his head and sighed, "It's the father's fault if he doesn't teach him."

A few years later, Feng fell ill and died. Xiang had no money to bury his father, so the neighbors thought that Feng was a good person, so they all helped and made arrangements for Feng's funeral. Xiang became a lonely person. He had always been uneducated and lazy, and soon found that life became more and more difficult. In order to survive, he began to sell off his property, and he slowly sold out all the slightly valuable things. Day by day, he was getting worse and worse, and he often had to eat one meal but not another. Seeing that winter was coming, he seemed to have no cotton-padded clothes. He huddled up in bed shivering, and there was no food at home. Xiang was so sad that he cried loudly in bed. While crying, he complained about why his father left so little property.

While I was crying, there was a "rustling" sound, and then the door opened, and a gust of cold wind came in. Xiang was startled, thinking that a thief had come in. He covered his head under the quilt and cried, "Just take whatever you want. Nothing is valuable in this house except the house. It's useless if you take it away." ." After that, he continued to cry loudly.

Suddenly, someone seemed to be patting his bed. Xiang stretched out his head and saw that it was a thief. It was clearly a huge flower snake coiled in front of his bed. Xiang was so frightened that he almost fainted. When he came back to his senses and took a closer look, the huge flower snake was actually crying.

Xiang remembered, isn't this the flower snake that was released into the reed swamp before?

Xiang said: "Flower snake, why are you back? Are you Can't you find anything to eat?" Hua She shook her head.

"Then what's wrong with you?" Xiang asked again.

Hua She shed tears while speaking: "You father and son saved my life and raised me for more than ten years. I have always been grateful. I know you are living in pain now. I can't I won't help you."

Xiang asked quickly: "What? You want to help me? How can you help me? You are just a snake."

The flower snake said: " My eyes have turned into luminous pearls. If you dig one out with a knife, you can exchange it for hundreds of taels of silver, which will never be used up in your lifetime."

After hearing this, Xiang jumped out of bed. He got up and took a knife, but he was shaking all over and couldn't put it down. The flower snake said: "Don't be afraid, just dig out my left eye." Xiang plucked up the courage and dug out the knife. The flower snake's left eyeball popped out, and the blood spurted out and splashed all over Xiang. The flower snake rolled around on the ground in pain, panting and said: "Xiang, just take care of yourself, I'm leaving."

Xiang washed the flower snake's eyes and took it deeply into his arms. , came to the largest drug store in the city. When the boy at the counter asked, someone actually said he was here to sell luminous pearls. He was so frightened that he quickly found the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper turned the luminous pearl over and over and praised it repeatedly: "This is a real luminous pearl. It's top quality at first glance!" After another look, the seller of beads was a young man shivering from the cold, so he asked in disbelief: "Is this yours? Where did you get such a rare thing?"

Xiang said arrogantly: "This is indeed mine, what's so strange about it?" Then he moved his home I told the shopkeeper about raising and releasing snakes, and the snakes came back to repay their kindness. The man was amazed after hearing this.

The shopkeeper squinted his eyes and said: "Little brother, it seems that the snake is really a spirit. An eyeball is so precious. If you get its snake gall, wouldn't it be priceless?" Xiang said angrily: "This can't be done. If you take out the snake's gall, won't the snake be dead?" After some bargaining, the shopkeeper gave Xiang two hundred taels of silver and bought the luminous pearl. Xiang went home happily.

When Xiang got rich, he began to squander it again. He went to casinos and pubs every day. Everyone knew that Xiang spent lavishly and smiled whenever they saw him. Like his father Feng, who often laughed at him, he worked stupidly and stupidly all his life and never enjoyed any blessings.

Good times always fly by. As time goes by, Xiang’s money becomes less and less, and he can no longer spend money lavishly. Xiang missed the days of debauchery very much, so he remembered what the shopkeeper of the drugstore once said. If he had priceless snake gall, wouldn't he be able to live a leisurely life again?

One day, Xiang was drunk. , staggering towards the reed swamp, wanting to find the flower snake. But the reed swamp is so big, where is the flower snake? But if the flower snake cannot be found and the snake gall cannot be obtained, the future life will be miserable. The elephant searched for a while and then shouted loudly by the reeds: "Flower snake! I am the elephant!"

The flower snake heard the elephant's call, so he walked through the reeds and came to the elephant. The elephant was overjoyed and asked the flower snake for its gallbladder. Upon hearing this, the flower snake shed tears from its only right eye and said very sadly: "Elephant, if you want my courage, don't you want my life?"

Xiang said confidently: "Without your courage, how could I live?" Hua Shen sighed again and again: "The eye I reluctantly gave you a few years ago, in exchange for a few hundred taels of silver should be It can last a lifetime, but you are squandering and greedy. I can't help you this time, so you can go." After saying that, he didn't want to look at the elephant anymore and lowered his head.

Xiang looked at the flower snake and lowered his head, thinking that this was an excellent opportunity. He quickly took out a knife from his arms and wanted to kill the flower snake with one blow. The flower snake was startled and dodged the knife. Seeing that the elephant had done such a thing, it was so angry that it trembled all over. It opened its big mouth and breathed gently. A strong wind blew up. The elephant struggled to escape, but still couldn't. Was sucked into the mouth of the flower snake. The flower snake swallowed the elephant into its belly and disappeared into the reeds.