China's four major folk tales are: "The Legend of the White Snake", "Meng Jiangnu", "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".

1, "White Snake"

"White Snake" is one of China's four great folk love legends, originating in the Tang Dynasty Luoyang giant snake incident, etc., the initial stereotypes in the Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong, "the police world", matured and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese folk collective creation of the paradigm. It describes a twisted love story between a snake spirit who has cultivated into human form and a human being.

2. Meng Jiangnu

Meng Jiangnu, also known as Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall, is one of the four great love legends of ancient China. The story is based on the historical fact that "Qiliang's wife cried for her husband", and the two main characters in the story, one of them is Meng Jiangnu's prototype Qiliang's wife, and the other one is Fan Xiliang's prototype Qiliang, who is indeed a person in history, and is not a fabrication.

3, "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden"

"Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" for the famous ancient Chinese folk love story, but also one of the four great folk legends of China. The Cowherd and Weaving Maiden originated from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena and later developed into the Tanabata Festival. Every time when the festival is celebrated, ancient women would make a wish to the stars Vega and Cowherd in the sky, wishing for a wise mind, dexterous hands and a good marriage.

4, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai"

"Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", or Liang Zhu for short, is one of the four great love stories of ancient Chinese folklore, and it is one of China's most fascinating art of oral transmission and national intangible cultural heritage, and also a Chinese folklore that has had a wide influence in the world. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the story of Liang Zhu has been passed down in folklore for more than 1,700 years, and has become a household name in China, and is regarded as a perfect song of love for the ages.

Introduction of the Four Great Folk Legends of China

China is a country with a vast land area and a long history, and contains an extremely rich national cultural heritage in the folklore. China's four major folklore stories refer to the four myths and legends that have been most widely circulated in Chinese folklore in the form of oral and written texts and have the greatest influence.

Of these, the four folklore stories that have the most Chinese characteristics and are most commonly recognized are the famous "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", "Meng Jiangnu", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", and "The Legend of the White Snake".

They and other folklore stories form an important part of Chinese folk culture and have a profound impact on the lives of the general public.

The four legends are all love stories, and also reflect the recognition of sincere feelings from one side. The place of origin of the stories, the birthplace of the Chinese Lovers' Festival, has been identified as Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, where there is a unique geographic environment and unique folklore that matches the stories.

China in the folk of all kinds of stories are many, in addition to the above there are "Chang'e Run to the Moon", "Houyi shoot the sun", "Jingwei fill the sea" and many other legendary stories.