Mythical Stories of Henan
Mythical Stories of Henan is an article about ancient Chinese mythical stories, which contains a large amount of information, and embodies the pioneers of the ancient Chinese people's pursuit of life and their emotional sustenance. We can learn our history, honor our patriarchs, and inherit and promote traditional culture through these stories. And my[who?] hometown is Zhumadian, a small city of Henan, where there are varieties of culture and lots of mythical stories because Henan is one of the cradles of the Chinese nation. There are many narrations, which maybe you are interested in.[1][2]
Hetuluoshu
We know there was an emperor, named Fuxi, in ancient times. One day, there was a Longma, whose back had hetu, in the Yellow River, part of Mengjin, Luoyang, Henan. Hetu was presented to Fuxi, and became Bagua, the source of Zhouyi. And luoshu was found at the back of a deiform tortoise in Luohe, Luoning, Luoyang. Yu dealt with the Yellow River according to luoshu, and at last he succeeded and made China into Kyushu. People said, "there’s hetuluoshu in the river, there’s a saint". I think it’s a symbol of auspice, peaceful environment, and a clear and bright society. Today, people have also searched for mathematics from hetuluoshu.[3][4][5][6][7]
Wu Zetian close to Luoyang peony
As we all know, Luoyang is the city of peony. Why is the city Luoyang and not others? In the tale, Wu Zetian, the empress of the Tang dynasty, wanted to see the scene of hundreds of flowers blooming together in winter. Hundreds of flowers except peony all blossomed out because of the empress’s power and influence. So peony was demoted to Luoyang, far away from the capital Chang’an. Since then peony lived well and blossomed out beautiful flowers in Luoyang, and the city also became the capital of peony. Owing to its beauty and the sense of riches and honor, peony is one of people's favorite flowers all the time. And Luoyang is famed for its peony flower meeting today.[8][9]
Butterfly lovers
My senior high teacher has said, there are "one big, one small, one temple, as well as one fool guy" at Runan of Henan province. The fool guy is Liang Shanbo, and there’s a tomb of Liang and Zhu at Maxiang, Runan. And this tale has been said to be the eastern Romeo and Juliet by our premier Zhou Enlai. Liang and Zhu who pretended to be mankind met, knew and fell in love at The Hongluoshan Academy. But, they were separated by their parents because of Liang’s poor family. Finally, Liang died of disease and Zhu went into Liang’s tomb on her wedding, and they became two butterflies together. We are still touched by their love story today.[10][11]
The general cypress将军柏
The Songyang Academy[12] college’s general cypress, located in Dengfeng,[13] Zhengzhou, Henan province, is known as the ancient Chinese cypress because of its 4000 years of age and was called “the original cypress” in reputation both at home and abroad. The famous poet Piaochu had left the poem “songyang has zhoubai ,seeing the world for three thousand years.”[14] According to legend, Liuche,[15] the emperor of the Han Dynasty,[16] had ever walked to the Songyang college .When he just entered a door and saw a tall cedars with flourishing branches and leaves, the emperor determined to call it the “general”. Then the emperor went through the second courtyard and saw a cypress tree, taller than the “general”, however, the first cypress had been called the “general”, the second one had to be regarded as the “second general”. After a while, another bigger one was called the “third general”. Because of the emperor’s injustice, the three generals all had a bad mood. The “general”, aware of his reality, didn't dare to look up at others, and as time passed, he became a bent tree slowly. The second one became a hollow tree by reason of his stomach splitting owing to his anger in the heart. The third one was too angry that he burned to death. Therefore, there is a piece of thrilling folk ballad to make a record of the matter more vividly. It said that the big was called small one and the small was named big one as a result of the first impression, and the third one burned to death because of anger, then the second refused to explode belly. And the “general” smiled to pour wall, then lowered his head because of his shame. No body could evaluate this two thousand-year upside-down case.[17][18][19]
Yugong moves the mountain[20]
Yugong, a near 90-year-old man, lived over against the mountains, which were called Taihang Mountain and Wangwu Mountain. And the mountains took an area of about seven hundred li里, highing 7000 or 8000 zhang丈. So his family suffered from the mountains when coming out. To get out of the mountains easily, Yugong appealed to people to try to dig the steep mountains and flatten an ended at the southern states to prepare to make a road. Then all people took part in this project. However, a wise man, Zhisou智叟, laughed at Yugong, stopped it，said: “you are not wise! With your remaining years, you couldn’t move the rest of the tree even the mountain grass, how about the earth stone?” Yugong said: “your heart is really stubborn. Even if I died, my son still lived, and even if my son died, I also have grandson. Then my grandson has his son, and son has grandson, so my children is endless. But the mountains can’t increase, why do you worry about that we couldn’t dig up?” Zhisou had no words to say. Finally, the immortal emperor was touched by Yugong’s sincere, and ordered others to back away the two mountains. There have been no mountains cutting off the road from that time. We can learn a lot from the “fool” of Yugong and Zhisou’s “wisdom”. As people say, the story contains the idea that where there’s a will there’s a way. The ancient and modern astronomers, artists, politicians have used the legend. Mao Zedong has once encouraged and educated people to develop the spirit of hard work by the story. People also believe that no matter what difficulty, so long as you have the perseverance to hold on, there is likely to be successful.[21][22][23]
Chen Bridge mutiny [18]
Chen Bridge Station陈桥驿 zh:陳橋驛 is located in the southeast Fengqiu County, Xinxiang City, Henan Province. Chen Bridge Mutiny is a coup to establish the Song Dynasty by Zhao Kuangyin Emperor Taizu of Song.On the AD 960, Zhao, the general of Later Zhou, took the matter of Northern Han and Liao joining to war to the south as an excuse for invasion and led the army to Daliang[disambiguation needed]. When they arrived at Chen Bridge Station, Zhao instructed his soldiers to wear him the yellow robe, crowned him emperor. The mutiny led to the demise of the Later Zhou and the setting up of Song Dynasty. And this matter made Chen Bridge famous all over the world, and then promoted the development of history.[24][25]
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