英文版民间故事

THE WHITE SNAKEA Chinese mythical tale of wide appeal is that of the White Snake.There are four characters in it-Bai Suzhen,Xiaoqing,Xu Xian and Fahai.Suzhen is a white snake thousands of years old and ,having acquired transcendant powers through self-cultivation,changes herself into a beautiful woman.Xiaoqing,her maid,is a green snake who has likewise assumed the form of a girl.Bored by the lonesome life in the mountains,they go to visit the beautiful city of Hangzhou.They are caught in the rain at the side of West Lake near a place called the Broken Bridge. Here they are offered an umbrella by Xu Xian,a young shop keeper at the apothecary in town.Suzhen(also known as the White Lady)falls in love with him and asks him to call on her the next day to get back his umbrella.At their next meeting,their mutual admiration quickly blossoms into marriage.They live happily together for a few months until Xu Xian meets Fahai,Abbot of Jinshan Monastery.This crafty,meddlesome hypocrite,jealous of the happiness of the lay world,tells Xu Xian that he has fallen into the trap of a demon and that his life is in danger.At length,instigated by the wicked monk,Xu Xian goes home and plies the White Lady with a medicated wine till drunkenness restored her original form.The sight sends Xu Xian into shock and a lasting stupor.To save her husband,the White Lady goes up the Kunlun Mountains to steal a divine cureall herb at the risk of her life.With tender care and Xiaoqing's assistance,she nurses Xu Xian back to health.But the loving yet apprehensive Xu Xian is abducted by Fahai and detained in the monastery.An open,fierce struggle unfolds,culminating in the White Lady besieging Jinshan Monastery with a flood.She is defeated because she is far gone in pregnancy and has to run for her life with Xiaoqing.In the meantime,Xu Xian also escapes from the monastery.

1<> Hefei south of the Han Dynasty when there are two brothers, Lee Rehabus brother Gao medicine, the younger brother of General LI Yue, a deputy only when they got kind of sick mother, his brother had no alternative but to a day to a Taoist priest came to their house to sing a Snow: Queen Mother of the West, said there could be a prescription treatment of the disease, Fu Shi Yishou: To look for slope Jian Gu six snakes, Fengcanlousu waterfront days. Xiantao al mountain ridge step. After suffering thousands of the Manual. Queen Mother of the West have heard that there could be a prescription treatment of the disease, the younger brother to hear the donkey is helping mothers leave their families to seek prescription. After carrying his mother and a mountain, over a river and one day in the evening to a Black Forest, the land of the moon to reflect a good light, his mother said the terrible thirst, and want to drink water. He called his mother in the rest under a tree, looking for their own water and found one across the water Xiao Wang. However, there are two flowers in the snakes play, LI Yue them off after seeing all the water Heihu Hu, how can you drink? Then suddenly the mother pushed him holding a big mouth on the drinking, drinking after his mother said: "delicious, much more comfortable." The next morning they have their way, I do not know how much the road is gone, how much rain and snow, the number of hunger, one day they come to a good good lake, the lake's beautiful scenery good the United States. Saw a grass The house, get rest, get a look inside the gum is that they look stunned, coming in at this time is a great big fat man shaking also Pushan. Tell them that the landscape here, and more products. I hope that they can stay Stay down, he brought a lot of good hospitality they are. LI Yue unmoved, however, one to go to the Western Regions for drugs. LI Yue big fat man himself praised the arrangement, he gave a red dates LI Yue , Asked him to eat, but it stars Sally date, LI Yue carrying a mother to eat do not feel tired, so Zouyazouya do not know how many years they had. 。 . 。 . They have a big foot of the mountain, saw the rise of large tracts of Taoyuan, peaches are large and long red, far from the smell the smell, they came to the hill in front of Taoyuan was shocked, big high peach trees, and a lot of Birds, there are no deer LI Yue, a stream. Said his mother wanted to eat peaches, LI Yue pick to climb trees, accidentally fell down from a tree, broke his feet, he limped pain tolerance of the peach mothers to want to eat, she ate two , A left said: "The Era, you eat a bar." LI Yue I also eat a thirsty, and how I thought how taste, but also for the first time how to eat delicious things. But would also like to see Queen Mother had to think of their way, on a charge-off tree branches when his mother helped take the walking stick, when suddenly a group of fairies Youshuoyouxiao, when they saw the mother and son when LI Yue Hou said, "You too timid , To know here is what? "A reprimand. LI Yue mother and son bowed his head, I do not know what to do. This time to China and the United States wearing a dress, look very kindly old woman who dismiss many of the fairies, LI Yue asked that they come from. Yiwuyishi LI Yue on the answer to her. He praised the Queen Mother of the arrangement, His begging for medicine nodded his head, the Queen Mother asked what else he wants, LI Yue said that the Queen Mother of the West want the prescription benefit the world people. 。 . 。 . 。 . 。 . 。 . Later, Queen Mother of the West Queen Mother of the West Dianhua immortal, founder of the Tung Wah Group of closure, awarding a Tie Zhang. LI Yue home with his mother, brother, mother and son to see them come back very surprised, rushed to ask is not what the prescription treatment? Listening to Yiwuyishi LI Yue-ching said that after the stamp foot on the floor, said: "Brother or your trip! I had to the mother when the diagnosis to determine the drug-six snakes Valley, Lake Lu-day, two peach Sally Anderson prescription can be cured because of the three drugs Nan Yu, I can only shake their heads did not expect ... Or the arrangement of your people to complete the difficult things done ... ... Later, the brothers work together in the home they left a lot of prescriptions. Hefei local people in memory of the Manual on the lame built a temple - Six Valley Temple 2In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Hefei in the vicinity of the dam with a white family, a hard-working white-old man with a small granddaughter put live geese, white-granddaughter Xiaoyu very beautiful, but also a master of embroidery, textile, evil has always wanted her crab cents! (Xiaoyu seven fairies in white fairy, because the production package Girl Queen Mother was lower bound of the penalty, there are at the beginning of crab cents scruples.) Xiaoyu stone bridge over a month to buy gall stone powder grandfather treatment of disease, one day when she came from the United States and the Yunnan section of juvenile doctors to fly, he was attracted to meet the Millennium Road, Hefei, Yuan Yuan Lin, and his grandfather Xiaoyu better treatment of disease , A family full of gratitude to him, the spark of love Xiaoyu was also lit. They married when the evil crab cents on the poison cup, flying above the loss of memory, with Xiaoyu ignore, not to fight Lianzhao Hu, a man went back to his home in Yunnan. White Xiaoyu sad to know that after the Juchao cents a battle of wits with the crab, nest depression, Luzhou up after the big fight goes down between the loss of supernatural power ... ... Qian Lixun her husband, Lishui come from Lijiang, House finally found a paragraph, paragraph House remarks sum up and down, the grief of her home only lived in the Wushan ludas. White was big help to restore memory to fly above his own hatred of Wang Qing, starry night immediately start preparing constantly rushed to Hefei, Hefei Feidong fat kept the West Zhaoyazhaoya the end of the reunion story. Lower bound of the Shennule added the number of stories, like a fairyland on earth rather than the past, that by virtue of Shushan fertilizer and the beautiful, once-elegant travel tours, became rui in Wonderland-like clouds cover. Hefei folklore, "Li Friends of the Bridge" poem for the card: West Hefei Feidong fat fat things, Li Lishui Friends of the Lijiang Lijiang water.

民间 故事 是从远古时代起就在人们口头流传的一种以奇异的语言和象征的形式讲述人与人之间的种种关系，题材广泛而又充满幻想的叙事体故事。它们往往包含着自然的、异想天开的成分。下面我为大家带来英语经典民间故事：孟姜女哭长城，欢迎大家阅读! A little over two hundred years before our era, the first emperor of the Chin dynasty ascended the throne under the name of Shih Huang. This emperor was very cruel towards his subjects, forcing people from every part of the country to come and build the Great Wall to protect his empire. Work never stopped, day or night, with the people carrying heavy loads of earth and bricks under the overseers' whips, lashes, and curses. They received very little food; the clothes they wore were threadbare. So it was scarcely to be wondered at that large numbers of them died every day. There was a young man, named Wan Hsi-liang, among those who had been pressed into the service of building Emperor Shih Huang's Great Wall. This Wan Hsi-liang had a beautiful and virtuous wife, whose name was Meng Chiang-nu. For a long, long time after her husband was forced to leave her, Meng Chiang-nu had no news of him, and it saddened her to think what he must be suffering, toiling for the accursed emperor. Her hatred of the wicked ruler grew apace with her longing for the husband he had torn from her side. One spring, when the flowers were in bloom and the trees budding, when the grass was a lush green, and the swallows were flying in pairs in the sky, her sorrow seemed to deepen as she walked in the fields, so she sang: In March the peach is blossom-dressed; Swallows, mating, build their nest. Two by two they gaily fly.... Left all alone, how sad am I!But even when autumn came round, there still was no news about Wan Hsi-liang. It was rumored that the Great Wall was in building somewhere way up north where it was so cold that one would hardly dare stick one's hands out of one's sleeves. When Meng Chiang-nu heard this, she hurriedly made cotton-padded clothes and shoes for her husband. But who should take these to him when it was such a long way to the Great Wall? Pondering the matter over and over, she finally decided she would take the clothes and shoes to Wan Hsi-liang herself. It was rather cold when she started out. The leaves had fallen from the trees and, as the harvest had been gathered in, the fields were empty and forlornly dismal. It was very lonely for Meng Chiang-nu to walk all by herself, especially since she had never been away from home in her life, and did not know the way and had to ask for directions every now and then. One evening she failed to reach a town she was going to, so she put up for the night in a little temple in a grove beside the road. Having walked the whole day, she was very tired and fell asleep as soon as she lay down on a stone table. She dreamed her husband was coming towards her, and a feeling of great happiness enveloped her. But then he told her that he had died, and she cried bitterly. When she woke up in the morning, she was overwhelmed by doubts and sadness as she remembered this dream. With curses on the emperor who had torn so many families asunder, Meng Chiang-nu continued on her way. One day, she came to a small inn by the side of the hilly road. The inn was kept by an old woman who, when she saw Meng Chiang-nu's hot face and dusty clothes, asked where she was going. When Meng Chiang-nu told her, she was deeply moved. "Aya!" she sighed, "the Great Wall is still far away from here, there are mountains and rivers to cross before you. How can a weak young woman like yourself get there?" But Meng Chiang-nu told the old woman she was determined to get the clothes and shoes to her husband, no matter what the difficulty. The old woman was as much touched by the younger one's willpower as she was concerned about her safety. The next day she accompanied Meng Chiang-nu over a distance to show her sympathy. And so, Meng Chiang-nu walked on and on and on till, one day, she came to a deep valley between the mountains. The sky was overcast with gray clouds, a strong wind was blowing that chilled the air. She walked quite a long time through the valley without, however, finding a single house. All she could see were weeds, brambles and rocks. It was getting so dark that she could no longer see the road. At the foot of the mountains there was a river, running with water of a murky color. Where should she go? Being at her wit's end, she decided to spend the night among some bushes. As she had not eaten anything for the whole day, she shivered all the more violently in the cold. Thinking of how her husband must be suffering in this icy cold weather, her heart contracted with a pain as sharp as a knife. When Meng Chiang-nu opened her eyes the next morning, she found to her amazement the whole valley and her own body covered with a blanket of snow. How was she to continue her travel? While she was still quite at a loss as to what to do, a crow suddenly alighted before her. It cawed twice and flew on a short distance, then sat down again in front of her and cawed again twice. Meng Chiang-nu decided that the bird was inviting her to follow its direction and so she resumed her travel, a little cheered because of the company of this living thing, and she began to sing as she walked along: Thick and fast swirl round the winter snows: I, Meng Chiang-nu, trudge, bearing winter clothes, A starveling crow, alas, my only guide, The Great Wall far, and I far from his side! Thus she walked past mountain ranges, crossing big rivers as well as small streams. And thus many a dreary day had passed before she at last reached the Great Wall. How excited she was when she caught sight of it, meandering like a huge serpent over the mountains before her. The wind was piercingly cold and the bare mountains were covered with dry grass only, without a single tree anywhere. Clusters of people were huddling against the Great Wall; these were the people who had been driven here to build it. Meng Chiang-nu walked along the Great Wall, trying to find her husband among those who were toiling here. She asked after her husband, but nobody knew anything about him, so she had to go on and on inquiring.... She saw what sallow faces the toilers had, their cheekbones protruding through the skin, and she saw many dead lying about, without anybody paying any attention. Her anguish over her husband's unknown fate increased, so that she shed many bitter tears as she continued her search. At last she learned the sad truth. Her husband had died long ago because of the unbearably hard toil, and his body had been put underground where he fell, under the Great Wall. Hearing this tragic news, Meng Chiang-nu fell into a swoon. Some of the builders tried to revive her, but it was a long while before she regained consciousness. When she did, she burst into a flood of tears, for several days on end, so that many of the toilers wept with her. So bitter was her lament that, suddenly, a length of over two hundred miles of the Great Wall came crumbling down, while a violent storm made the sand and bricks whirl about in the air. "It was Meng Chiang-nu who, by her tears, caused the Great Wall to crumble!" the people along the edifice told one another with amazement, at the same time filled with hatred of the cruel emperor, who caused nothing but misery to his subjects. When the emperor heard how Meng Chiang-nu had brought part of his Great Wall down, he immediately went to see for himself what sort of person she was. He found that she was as beautiful as a fairy, so he asked her to become his concubine. Meng Chiang-nu who hated him so deeply for his cruel ways would, of course, not consent to this. But she felt a ruse would serve her purpose better than frankness, so she answered amiably: "Yes, I will, if you do three things for me." The emperor then asked what these three things were and Meng Chiang-nu said: "The first is that you bury my husband in a golden coffin with a silver lid on it; the second is that all your ministers and generals go into mourning for my husband and attend his funeral; the third is that you attend his funeral yourself, wearing deep mourning as his son would do." Being so taken with her beauty, the emperor consented to her requests at once. Everything was, therefore, arranged accordingly. In funeral procession, Emperor Shih Huang walked closely behind the coffin, while a cortege of all his courtiers and generals followed him. The emperor anticipated happily the enjoyment the beautiful, new concubine would give him. But Meng Chiang-nu, when she saw her husband properly buried, kowtowed before his tomb in homage to the deceased, crying bitterly for a long time. Then, all of a sudden, she jumped into the river that flowed close by the tomb. The emperor was infuriated at being thwarted in his desires. He ordered his attendants to pull her out of the water again. But before they could seize her, Meng Chiang-nu had turned into a beautiful, silvery fish and swam gracefully out of sight, deep down into the green-blue water.