Legend has it that the ancient Heavenly Emperor's granddaughter, the Weaving Maiden, was good at weaving and weaved colorful haze for the sky every day. Hating this boring life, she secretly descended to the mortal world and privately married Cowherd of Hexi to live a life of male cultivation and female weaving.
This incident angered the Heavenly Emperor, who caught the Weaving Maiden back to the Heavenly Palace and ordered them to be separated, allowing them to meet only once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, on the Magpie Bridge. Their steadfast love touched the magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a magpie bridge across the heavenly river with their bodies, so that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden could meet each other on the heavenly river.
2. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai)
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhu Yingtai, dressed as a man, traveled to Hangzhou (Nishan in Sichuan Opera) to pursue her studies, and encountered Liang Shanbo, who became a brother because of the similarity of his version and studied together for three years. After, Zhu Yingtai returned home, before traveling to the matchmaker's mother promised to marry Liang Shanbo.
The eighteenth sent, Zhu Yingtai to "sister" promised. Liang Shanbo know, to the Zhu family to propose, at this time, Zhu father Gongyuan has been promised to marry the daughter of the son of Ma Taishou Ma Wencai. Liang and Zhu met on the roof of a building, after which Liang Shanbo returned home sick and died. Zhu Yingtai wedding time, the sedan chair detour to Liang Shanbo grave to pay tribute, thunder cracked the tomb, Yingtai into the grave. Liang Zhuzhu transformed into a butterfly double dance.
3. Meng Jiangnu Weeps for the Great Wall: Meng Jiangnu
Her husband was recruited by Emperor Qin Shi Huang to build the Great Wall, Meng Jiangnu waited for many years at home and failed to wait for her husband, so she went to the construction site to look for him. When she didn't find her husband, Meng Jiangnu cried so loudly that her cries shook down the Great Wall, revealing her husband's bones.
4. The Tale of the White Snake: The Green Snake, the White Snake, and Xu Xian
The Tale of the White Snake describes a twisted love story between a snake spirit who has been cultivated into human form and a human being. The story includes the story of the umbrella on the canopy boat, the White Snake stealing the ganoderma lucidum, the Water Flooding San Francisco, the Broken Bridge, the Thunder Peak Pagoda, the sacrifice of the pagoda by Xu Xian's son, Shilin, and the attempt of Fa Hai to escape death by hiding in the belly of a crab. It expresses the people's desire to praise the freedom of love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable restrictions imposed by the feudal forces.