Once upon a time, there was a child named Ma Liang. Father and mother died long ago, and they made a living by cutting firewood and grass by themselves. He liked to learn painting since he was a child, but Lian Bi didn't!

One day, he passed the gate of a school auditorium and saw the teacher in the school auditorium, drawing with a pen. He walked in unconsciously and said to the teacher, "I really want to learn to draw." Can you lend me a pen? "

The teacher glared at him. "Bah!" He spat in his face and scolded, "Poor children have to learn to draw with pens? Dream! " Say that finish, will he launched the door.

Ma Liang is an ambitious child. He said, "I don't believe that poor children can't even learn to draw!" " "

Since then, he has made up his mind to learn painting and practice hard every day. He went up the mountain to collect firewood, broke a branch and learned to track birds in the sand.

He went to the river to mow the grass, so he dipped the grass roots in the river and learned to draw fish on the shore stone. In the evening, when I got home, I took a piece of charcoal and painted the things I had painted during the day one by one on the wall of the cave. He still learns to draw without strokes.

Year after year, Ma Liang never stopped learning painting. His cave walls are painted with overlapping pictures, and the twists are all painted. Of course, the progress is also very fast. Really painted birds can't crow, and painted fish can't swim.

Once, he drew a little hen at the entrance of the village, and the eagle hovered over the entrance of the village all day. Once, he drew a black-haired wolf behind the mountain, which scared the cattle and sheep behind the mountain from eating. One night, Ma Liang was lying in the cave because he had been working and studying painting all day. As soon as he lay down, he fell asleep in a daze

I don't know when colorful lights appeared in the cave. An old man with a white beard came over and gave him a pen: "This is a magic pen, use it well!" " "

Ma Liang took it and saw that the pen was golden; Hold it in your hand. It's heavy. He jumped up with joy: "thank you, grandpa." Ma Liang didn't finish, and the old man with white beard had disappeared.

Ma Liang was surprised and rubbed his eyes when he woke up. It was a dream! This is not a dream! Isn't that pen well held in your own hand!

He was very happy, so he ran out, knocked on doors, woke up all his partners and told them, "I have a pen!" " "It's only midnight! He drew a bird with a brush. The bird flapped its wings, flew into the sky and sang to him.

He drew a fish with a brush. The fish bent its tail, swam into the water and danced to him with the swing. He said happily, "How wonderful this magic pen is!"

Ma Liang uses this magic pen to draw pictures for the poor in the village every day: whoever doesn't have a plow, draw him a plow; Whoever has no cow, draw him a cow; Whoever doesn't have a waterwheel will draw him a waterwheel; Whoever has no stone mill, draw him a stone mill.

There is no windtight wall in the world, and the news soon reached the ears of a rich man in a neighboring village. The rich man sent two families to arrest him and force him to paint.

Ma Liang is very young, but he was born to be difficult to deal with. He saw through the rich man's bad heart. No matter how to coax him or scare him, he refused to draw a gold ingot. The rich man kept him in the stable and gave him no food.

At night, the snow is falling, and a thick layer has accumulated on the ground. The rich think that Ma Liang didn't starve to death, but froze to death. He walked through the stable door, only to see the red light in the crack of the door and smell a delicious smell.

He felt strange, close to his eyes and took a photo under the door. Ah! Ma Liang not only didn't die, but also lit a big stove and baked and ate hot cakes on the fire! Knowing that this stove and cake must have been painted by Ma Liang, the rich man angrily called his servants and asked them to kill Ma Liang and take the magic pen.

A dozen fierce servants rushed into the stable, but Ma Liang disappeared. I see a ladder on the east wall. When it was dark, Ma Liang climbed the ladder and climbed over the wall. The rich man hurried up the ladder to chase after him, but he fell down before climbing three steps. At first, this ladder was painted by Ma Liang.

2. The legend of "Year"

In ancient times, there was a fierce beast who lived in a deep forest. People call it the year.

"Year" is huge and fierce. As long as someone annoys him, he will open his mouth and eat him.

At the same time, Nian is lazy. He likes to sleep for 365 days. When he wakes up from sleep, he always feels his stomach growling.

At this time, it came down to the village and ate whatever it saw, even including the old people and children living in the village. After the stomach is full, it will waddle home and continue to sleep, and then wake up for the next 365 days and continue to go down the mountain to find something to eat.

In this way, this "Nian" beast came to the village year after year to eat people, which made everyone panic.

The village where Po lives is attacked by Nian beast every year. Last time Nian beast went down the mountain, his father, mother and sister were all eaten, so Po hated this ferocious beast.

On New Year's Eve this year, people in Abao Village helped the old and brought the young up the mountain to avoid the "Nian" beast. At this time, an old beggar came outside the village, with a cane in his hand and a bag on his shoulder, and his silver beard was dragged to the ground.

At this time, everyone is busy sealing the windows and locking the doors, packing things, and people are shouting everywhere, which is a scene of hurry and confusion. Who has the heart to take care of this poor beggar old man? People just took a quick look at the old man and left quickly.

When the old man went to Po's house, Po came out of the house, gave the poor beggar some food, and suggested that he follow everyone up the mountain to avoid the "Nian" beast.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the beggar stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Little brother, can you let me spend the night as a lonely old man?"

Po looked at the beggar in surprise and said, "old man, don't you understand that the terrible Nian beast is coming tonight?" At present, everyone is taking care of the young and the old, packing up and taking refuge in the mountains. You should follow. "

The old beggar just smiled and said nothing.

"Well, in that case, you can come in." Po said to the old man.

"Thank you, kind young man. With me here, you have nothing to be afraid of tonight. " As he spoke, the old man put down his bag from his shoulder and took out two long red papers from it. "Come, you stick these two pieces of red paper on the door."

Po didn't understand the use of these two red papers, so he asked, "What are you doing with these two red papers?"

The beggar pinched his beard, smiled and replied, "Just put it on and do as I say."

According to the old man's instructions, Po posted two pieces of red paper symmetrically on both sides of the door, and then helped the begging old man into the house.

"I still have two candles there. You can light them when it gets dark. " The old man handed Po two red candles.

Bao took two red candles and asked, "I also have candles at home, but they are not red." Why do you want me to light them tonight? "

The begging old man smiled and pointed to the bamboo piled up in the yard: "kind young man, I feel a little cold." Why don't you burn those bamboos and keep me warm? "

Honest Po didn't think much this time. He made a fire at once.

It was getting dark, and Nian jumped out of the mountain. It swaggered into the village and looked around, only to find that the doors of every household were closed, only some sesame stalks piled up in front, and there was no one in the street.

"Why is there no one in this village this year?" "Year" frowned.

Nian wandered around the village for more than half a night and found nothing, so he had to chew those sesame stalks to satisfy his hunger. It munched on dried sesame stalks and was not happy at all.

At this time, it suddenly smelled a delicious smell of human flesh mixed with wind: "Wow, it smells good! Well, it seems that we can still taste something new tonight. At this moment, I want to find this person and have a good meal. "

Thinking about those delicious human flesh, my mouth keeps dripping, and human flesh is much more delicious than those sesame stalks.

The greedy "Nian" sniffs around the village. Finally, I was surprised to find that the smell came from Po's house. So it ran to Po's house, but just jumped to the door and suddenly stopped.

"This family is really strange. What are those two red things posted on his door? This makes me dizzy. " "Year" took a step back.

After that, it saw two red lights flashing in the room through the courtyard wall. The red light jumps like a monster's eyes. Nian trembled all over and gave a strange cry: "Oh, what monster is that?" My eyes are red, and my head is bigger than mine! "The original" Nian "mistook the house lit with red candles for a monster bigger than it.

At this time, there was a "scratching" explosion in the hospital, and Nian trembled and never dared to go forward again. It turned and ran, shouting, "mom, the monster is angry, it's terrible!" The monster is coming, the monster is coming! " In a short time, nian disappeared without a trace.

When Nian ran away in panic, the begging old man and Po laughed loudly.

"I didn't expect this man-eating beast to be afraid of the sound of red and fried. But, old man, how do you understand this weakness? " Po asked the beggar old man.

"Young man," the old man said with a happy smile, "I am a fairy in the sky, and this time I am here to help you deal with Nian.

Now the beast has been scared away. You will drive it away in this way every year and have a happy New Year's Eve! "Say that finish, the old man turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared.

The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, Po came out of the house and told everyone about begging the old man.

Everyone crowded into Po's house, only to find red paper on his door, a pile of unburned bamboo still exploding in the yard, and two red candles still glowing in the room.

In order to celebrate the auspicious arrival, ecstatic villagers put on their clothes and hats and went to their relatives and friends' homes to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people knew the way to get rid of Nian.

Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets, set off firecrackers and lit candles to wait for the arrival of the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

3. Shennong tasted a hundred herbs

In ancient times, grains and weeds grew together, and medicines and flowers bloomed together. No one could tell which grains could be eaten and which herbs could cure diseases.

Lebanese people hunt for a living. There are fewer birds in the sky, fewer animals in the ground, and people have to starve. Who wants to get sick with sores, who wants myrrh, who wants to die and peel off the skin!

Shennong sees the sufferings of ordinary people, and the pain is in his heart. How to feed the people? How to treat people? Shennong thought hard for three days and nights and finally came up with a solution.

On the fourth day, he took a group of subjects from his hometown in Lishan, Suizhou, and headed for the northwest mountainous area. They walked so hard that their legs were swollen and their feet were cocooned, but they persisted in walking for 7749 days and came to a place.

I saw one mountain after another, one canyon after another, the mountains were covered with exotic flowers and plants, and I smelled the fragrance from a distance. Shennong and them were walking forward when suddenly a group of wolves, insects, tigers and leopards came out of the canyon and surrounded them. Shennong immediately asked his subjects to wave whips and fight the wild animals.

Beat back a batch and come up with another batch. It took seven days and seven nights to drive away all the wild animals. Tigers, leopards and pythons are scratched by magic whips and then become stripes on the skin.

At this time, the subjects said it was too dangerous and advised Shennong to go back. Shennong shook his head and said, "You can't go back! Limin people are hungry and have no food to eat, and they are ill and have no medical treatment. How can we go back! " As he spoke, he led him into the canyon and came to the foot of a big mountain.

The mountains are half embedded in the clouds, surrounded by knives and cliffs, and waterfalls are hung on the cliffs, covered with moss and smooth and slippery. It seems that you can't climb the sky without a ladder. His subjects advised him to forget about it and go back before it was too late.

Shennong shook his head: "I can't go back! Limin people are hungry and have no food to eat, and they are ill and have no medical treatment. How can we go back! " He stood on a small stone mountain, facing the mountain, looking up, down, left and right, trying to find a way. After that, people called this small mountain peak where he stood "Wang Nongge".

Then, he saw several golden monkeys crawling along the Gu Teng hanging high and the rotten wood lying on the waist of the cliff. Shennong had a brainwave and figured it out! He immediately called his subjects and asked them to cut down wooden poles and vines and build a shelf against the cliff.

Build a floor every day, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, whether it is windy or rainy, or it is snowy or frozen, without interruption. It took a whole year to reach the top of the mountain on the 360th floor. Legend has it that the scaffolding that people used to build later was the way to learn from Shennong.

Shennong took his subjects and climbed the wooden frame to the top of the mountain. Hey! The mountain is really a world of flowers and plants, red, green, white and yellow, all kinds, dense. Shennong likes it very much. He told his subjects to beware of wolves, insects, tigers and leopards. He picked the flowers himself and put them in his mouth to taste.

In order to taste the herbs there and find food and medicine for the people, Shennong asked his subjects to plant rows of fir trees on the mountain as a wall to prevent wild animals, and build huts to live in. After that, people called the place where Shennong lived "Wooden City".

During the day, he led his subjects to the mountains to taste hundreds of herbs. In the evening, he told them to build a bonfire. He recorded in detail by the firelight: which grass is bitter, which is hot, which is cold, which can satisfy hunger, and which can cure diseases, all of which are clearly written.

Once, he put a grass in his mouth and tasted it. In an instant, everything was spinning and he fell headlong. The subjects quickly helped him sit up. He knew he was poisoned, but he couldn't speak again. He had to use up his last strength, pointing to a bright red ganoderma lucidum in front of him and pointing to his mouth.

Subjects hurriedly put red ganoderma lucidum into their mouths to chew and feed it to their mouths. When Shennong ate Ganoderma lucidum, the poison gas was dissolved. His head didn't pass out, but he could still speak. Since then, people have said that Ganoderma lucidum can be brought back to life.

The subjects were worried that it was too dangerous for him to taste grass like this, so they advised him to go back down the mountain. He shook his head again and said, "You can't go back! Limin people are hungry and have no food to eat, and they are ill and have no medical treatment. How can we go back! " After that, he tasted a hundred herbs again.

He tasted the flowers and plants in one mountain, and then went to another mountain to taste them, or climbed up with a wooden pole. I have been tasting it for 7749 days and have traveled all over the mountains and rivers there.

He tasted that wheat, rice, millet and sorghum could satisfy his hunger, so he asked his subjects to take the seeds back and let the Lebanese people plant them. This is the grain of the future. He tasted 365 kinds of herbs and wrote Shen Nong's Materia Medica, which he asked his subjects to take back to treat the people all over the world.

Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs, found food to satisfy hunger and herbs to treat diseases for the people, and went to Huisheng Village to prepare to go back down the mountain. He looked around, and all the wooden frames built all over the mountain were gone.

Originally, those wooden poles that were erected took root and sprouted in the rain. A few years later, they grew into a vast forest. Shennong was in a dilemma. Suddenly a group of white cranes descended from the sky, taking him and several protected subjects to the sky. Since then, Huishengzhai is fragrant all year round.

People named this vast forest "Shennongjia" to commemorate Shennong's achievements in tasting a hundred herbs and Hui Ze. Renamed the Huisheng Village of Shennong to Liuxiang Village.

4. Jingwei Reclamation Area

Jingwei was originally the daughter of Yan Di, the sun god, and was an underage girl. People in the Central Plains call children "Wa", and this little girl is called "Nuwa" by everyone.

Emperor Yan not only manages the sun, but also manages the five grains of medicinal materials. Therefore, his other name is Shennong. Sometimes, people connect his two names and call him "Shennong Yan Di". Emperor Yan of Shennong has many things to do. Every morning, he goes to the East China Sea to direct the sun to rise, and doesn't go home until the sun goes down.

This girl is a sensible good child. When her father is not at home, she plays by herself. She often wears a pair of little red shoes and runs into the field, with many flowers in her head, dressed up beautifully.

In the field, she watched the fiery red sun rise from the east, bathed in sunshine happily and enjoyed the surrounding vitality. Everything grows in the sun, and birds and animals exult in the sun. She feels very proud, because the light and warmth of the earth are brought by her father.

Sometimes, she will run to the east China sea to watch the sunrise. When she saw the radiant light and a red sun jumping out of the sea, she liked it very much. So I really want to see the place where the sun rises outside the East China Sea.

However, this girl is too young for Emperor Yan to take her away. Because the sun rises in the "homing market" hundreds of millions of miles away in the East China Sea, that place is very hot and hot, and children can't stand it.

This girl is always angry about it. It's tempting to return to the market mysteriously. On one occasion, she was disobedient. After her father left, she jumped into the East Sea of China and swam to Hui Gui.

Swimming and swimming, at first she was very happy and swam hard. After that, I swam farther and farther. Unexpectedly, a storm came and swallowed the girl.

The girl sank into the East China Sea and never came back.

However, the girl's spirit is not dead. She hates waves in the sea. Her spirit turned into a bird, the wild flowers on her head turned into patterns on her forehead, and the little red shoes on her feet turned into red claws. She vowed to fill the East China Sea!

Jingwei and Haiyan, in order to strengthen their own strength, form a spouse, reproduce their offspring, and let their spirit be passed down from generation to generation, so as to continue the reclamation cause until the sea is filled up. The children born to Jingwei and Haiyan are like Jingwei in women and Haiyan in men.

Jingwei bird keeps picking up stones and branches from the western hills and throwing them into the East China Sea. Throw it early, throw it at night, throw it today and throw it tomorrow. Even if it encounters a storm, it will pass by.

Sometimes, it is too close to the water, and the waves engulf it again, but it still doesn't stop, and new Jingwei birds continue to breed on the sea.

Jingwei's reclamation alarmed the gods. The water god admired the spirit of Jingwei, so he sent down floods, washed the sediment on the plateau into the sea, and messed up the sea. Therefore, people call the Yellow Sea in the northern part of the East China Sea "Yellow Sea".

When the sea finds itself in real danger of being filled up, it takes measures to use the tide to push the sediment to the shore, and the sediment settles on the shore, which constitutes the beach. When the beach became thicker and bigger, people surrounded it and changed Cheng Tianliang.

People can't forget that this land was reclaimed from the sea by Jingwei, so they should educate future generations to love birds from generation to generation, learn the spirit of Jingwei, and work unswervingly towards the established goals.

5. Kuafu chases the sun

In ancient times, in the Great Northern Wilderness, there was a towering mountain called Zai Tian. Deep in the mountains, there lived a group of giants with infinite power.

Their leader is Kuafu, the son of Xin and the grandson of Hades. Therefore, this group of people is called Kuafu. They are strong, tall and burly, with strong willpower and extraordinary spirit. And kind-hearted, hardworking and brave, living a peaceful and free life.

At that time, the land was desolate, poisonous animals were rampant, and people's lives were miserable. In order to make the people of this tribe survive, Kuafu leads people to fight against natural disasters every day.

Kuafu often hangs the vicious yellow snake he caught on his ear as decoration, and holds it in his hand and waves it proudly.

One year, the weather was very hot, and the burning sun shone directly on the earth, baking crops, scorching trees and drying rivers. People can't stand the heat. People in Kuafu are dying.

Seeing this, Kuafu was very sad. He looked up at the sun and told his people, "The sun is really hateful. I want to catch up with it and let it listen to people. " After hearing this, everyone dissuaded them.

Someone said, "Don't go. The sun is so far away from us that you will be exhausted. "

Someone said, "The sun is so hot, you will be roasted to death."

Kuafu made up his mind and vowed to catch the sun, make it obey people's orders and serve everyone. He looked at the poor people and said, "I must go for everyone's happy life!" " "

The sun had just risen from the sea, and Kuafu said goodbye to his people. With great ambition, he strode upward from the East China Sea and began his daily journey.

The sun is moving fast in the air, and Kuafu is chasing it like a high wind on the ground. He climbed mountains and mountains, and the earth was shaken by his footsteps.

Kuafu was tired from running, so he took a nap and shook the soil off the ground, forming a big dirt mountain. When he is hungry, he picks wild fruits to satisfy his hunger, and sometimes Kuafu cooks. He framed the pot with five stone heads, and these five stone heads became five high mountains standing at his feet, several thousand meters high, which were the Five Mountains.

Kuafu ran after the sun and saw that he was getting closer and closer to the sun. His confidence grew stronger and stronger. But the closer you get to the sun, the thirstier you get. It is no longer enough to hold the river to quench your thirst.

However, he was not afraid and kept encouraging himself. "Soon, we will catch up with the sun, and people's lives will be happy."

After nine days in Kuya at sunset, Kuafu finally caught up.

Red, burning fireball, right in front of Kuafu, his head, thousands of golden light, bathed in him.

Kuafu was ecstatic with open arms, trying to embrace the sunshine. But the sun was unusually hot, and Kuafu felt thirsty and tired. He ran to the Yellow River and drank the water of the Yellow River in one breath, but he still didn't quench his thirst.

So he ran to the Weihe River and drank all the water from the Weihe River, but he still didn't quench his thirst. Kuafu went to the north, where there was osawa, and there was enough water in osawa to quench Kuafu's thirst.

However, osawa is so far away that Kuafu died of thirst on his way to osawa.

When Kuafu died, his heart was filled with regret. He was still worried about his own people, so he threw out the stick in his hand. Where the wooden staff landed, a large lush peach forest suddenly appeared.

This peach forest is lush all the year round, providing shade for passers-by and producing fresh peaches, quenching thirst for hardworking people, and making people get rid of fatigue and embark on a journey energetically.