中國四大愛情故事(英語版)

1、four chinese folk love story,four chinese folk love story is the most wide spread and influential of the famous symbols of chinese culture.it has a profound impact on the concept of love,this story happened during the qin dynasty .there was once an old man named meng who lived with his wife. one spr

2、ing, meng sowed a seed of bottle gourd in his yard. like meng, jiang had no children and so he became very fond of the plant. he watered and took care of the plant. jiang plucked it off the vine, and the two old men decided to cut the gourd and divide it by half. to their surprise when they cut the

3、gourd a pretty and lovely girl was lying inside! they named the girl meng jiangnu, which means meng and jiangs daughter.,no.1 meng jiangnu cry the great wall,meng jiangnu was very smart and industrious. one day while playing in the yard, meng jiangnu saw a young man hiding in the garden. at that tim

4、e, emperor qin shihuang announced to build the great wall. fan qiliang was an intellectual man and very afraid of being caught, so he went to mengs house to hide from the officials. meng and jiang liked this young man. they decided to wed their daughter to him. the couple was married several days la

5、ter.,however, fan qiliang was taken away to build the great wall. it was a hard time for meng jiangnu missed her husband and cried nearly every day. she decided to set off to look for him. she climbed over mountains and went through the rivers. she walked day and night, slipping and falling many tim

6、es, but finally she reached the foot of the great wall at the present shanhaiguan pass.,however, that fan qiliang had already died of exhaustion and was buried into the great wall! meng jiangnu could not help crying , suddenly with a tremendous noise, a 400 kilometer-long section of the great wall c

7、ollapsed over her bitter wail. at the first sight of meng jiangnu, emperor qin shihuang was attracted by her beauty. instead of killing her, the emperor asked meng jiangnu to marry him.,after all the terms were met, emperor qin shihuang was ready to take her to his palace. when the guarders were not

8、 watching, she suddenly turned around and jumped into the nearby bohai sea.,in memory of meng jiangnu, later generations built a temple, called the jiangnu temple, at the foot of the great wall in which a statue of meng jiangnu is located.,no.2 the lenged of white snake,the lenged of white snake is

9、a love story between a white snake and a man .the white snake had been lived on earth for thousands of years and she had practiced herself during the years to master a lot of magic.one day she was going to be an immortal , but she still remembered a man who saved her five hunderd year ago and she wa

10、nted to repay an obligation .,finally she found the man whose previous life saved her and that man is xu xian at the broken bridge of west lake . they together overcame a lot of difficulties and had a boy , but after the boy was born, bai suzhen was controled in the fall of pagoda by a monk named fa

11、hai on behalf of subdued demons . at last the boy win the first place in the national examination and he saved her mother bai suzhen . at last bai suzhen and her husband xu xian became the immortal together.,no.3 the butterfly lovers,zhu yingtai is a beautiful and intelligent young woman. although t

12、raditions of that era discourage females from going to school, zhu manages to convince her father to allow her to attend classes in disguise as a young man.,during her journey to hangzhou, she meets liang shanbo, a scholar from kuaiji（kuij, present-day shaoxing). they chat and feel a strong affinity

13、 for each other at their first meeting.,they study together for the next three years in school and zhu gradually falls in love with liang. although liang equals zhu in their studies, he is still a bookworm and fails to notice the feminine characteristics exhibited by his classmate.,one day, zhus fat

14、her asked her to return home as soon as possible. liang accompanies his sworn brother for 18 miles to see her off. during the journey, zhu hints to liang that she is actually a woman. before they part, zhu reminds liang to visit her residence later so he can propose to marry her sister. months later

15、, when liang visits zhu, he discovers that she is actually a woman. they make a vow of till death do us part,but zhus parents have already arranged for her to marry a man from a rich family called ma wencai. liang is heartbroken when he hears the news and his health gradually deteriorates. then he d

16、ies in office later as a county magistrate.,on the day of ma and zhus marriage, mysterious whirlwinds prevent the wedding procession from escorting the bride beyond liangs grave, which lies along the journey. zhu left the procession to pay her respects for liang.,liangs tomb split apart, and zhu div

17、ed into it to join him. a pair of butterflies emerged from the tomb and flew away.,no.4 the cowherd and the girl weaver,the cowherd was brought up the cowherd was brought up by his brother and sister-in-law when he parents passed away .they maltreated him day and night. afterwards they broke up the

18、family and lived apart from him .only gave him a cow and an old car,the girl weaver, the granddaughter of the god of heaven, often came down with other fairies from heaven and took a bath in the secular world. one day cowherd got across them bathing in a lake .encouraged by old cow, he stolen a red

19、clothes. the fairy sisters pull out as soon as quickly when they saw cowherd. but the girl weaver unable to return to the heaven without clothes.,she married the cowherd and had a son and a daughter. they led a happy life with husband tilling the wrathed and ordered the girl weaver be land and wife weaving. when the god of heaven learned it, he was brought back. the cowherd and their children came back home to find her gone. with the old ox help he would go to heaven to find his wife. however the q