There are many images of snakes in the folk stories about snakes in China. One is the story of the snake becoming refined. Second, snakes have a special status. The ancestors of human beings, Fuxi and Nu Wa, were both half-human snakes. What are the folk stories about snakes? The following folk stories about snakes that I share with you are welcome to read.
Folk stories about snakes 1
Folk stories about snakes: the story of snake lang
Once upon a time, there was a woman who had three daughters. Her husband died of illness, and she struggled to bring up her three daughters.
One day, her three daughters went to dig with her and saw a big slate. She asked her three daughters to move in together. As soon as the slate was removed, it was entangled in the neck by a small green snake, and it could not be pulled down anyway.
She said to the snake, "Little green snake, little green snake, what are you doing on my neck?" As long as you let me go, I will give you everything I have. "Little green snake neck bulging said:" I don't want to eat, also don't use, as long as you marry a daughter as a wife. "If the old mother refuses, the snake will get tighter and tighter. The old mother was helpless and asked her eldest daughter, "Would you like to marry the little green snake?" The eldest daughter said, "It's a snake. How can I marry it? I don't want to. " The mother asked her second daughter again, "Would you like to marry the little green snake? The second daughter said, "I feel sick when I look at it. I don't want to. "The mother asked the third daughter again;" Would you like to marry the little green snake? The third daughter said, "I was born to my mother. My mother raised me since I was a child. I should repay my mother for her kindness. ".Since neither the elder sister nor the second sister wants to marry it, who will marry it if I don't marry it? I do! "The little green snake heard that Sanmei was willing to marry it, so she loosened her mother's neck and fell to the ground. It climbed to the third sister's feet, nodded and climbed forward.
Third sister followed it all the time, walking and walking until it was dark, and she came to a cave. This cave is much better than Third Sister's. Everything, gold and silver jewelry sparkling, riddled with holes. Third sister lives with a snake, one is a human and the other is a snake, which is very inconvenient.
One day, Third Sister met an old woman at the door. She said to her, "I married a snake. It's a snake, and I'm alone. What can I do? " Grandma told her that the little green snake became a person when she went out. She hid the snakeskin behind the door and put it on when she came in. As long as the snakeskin is scalded, it will never become a snake.
Third sister went home to look for it, and sure enough she found a snakeskin behind the door. She picked up the snakeskin and threw it into the fireplace. When Green Snake came back, she saw that the snakeskin was burnt. She quickly reached for it, but the snakeskin had melted. Since then, the little green snake has become a beautiful young man. So they officially got married, and the couple loved each other.
A year later, Third Sister gave birth to a daughter. After the full moon, the couple happily returned to their parents' home. Married elder sister and second sister also came back. The second sister saw that the third sister was bejeweled, and her husband was a beautiful husband. Look at those who have made up for themselves and regretted not wanting to marry the little green snake. In the afternoon, she invited her sister to play outside. There is a pomegranate tree by the ditch, and the pomegranate is ripe. She told her sister to pick pomegranates to eat. As soon as her sister climbed the pomegranate tree, she shouted, "The wolf is coming." My sister was so surprised that she fell from the tree and died.
Folk stories about snakes 2 Folk stories about snakes: the legend of man and snake
Long ago, man and snake were good brothers. They communicate with each other, care about each other, are like brothers, and have excellent feelings.
But this man is poor, he can't eat well, he can't dress well, he can't live well, his life is very sad and he looks miserable.
One day, his old friend snake asked him, "Brother, what's wrong with you?" Why are you so poor? " The man complained, "I grew up without parents, land and money." How can I not be poor? " "For you and I are good friends, let me help you think of a way."
The snake said, "There is a village not far from here. There is a plague there. People are too sick to see a doctor, and they are dying. If you treat their diseases well, they will be very grateful to you and will give you a lot of money, so that you will not be poor. " The man said, "I know nothing. I'm not a doctor, and I won't see a doctor. Besides, I don't have any medicine. "
The snake said, "It doesn't matter. I have a way to help you. You cut off my liver, grind it into flour, and let people drink it with boiling water, and the disease will be fine. " "But how can I get your liver? Cut off your liver and you will die, my good brother. " The man replied.
The snake said, "It doesn't matter. Let me open my mouth. You can climb in and cut a piece. Cutting off part of my liver won't hurt me. Since we are good brothers, I can only help you like this. " The man did so, cut off a piece of snake liver and ground it into powder, so that the whole village could drink the medicine. The whole village was immediately restored. Everyone thanked him and gave him a lot of money to settle down in that village.
The man suddenly became a rich man. He has a field, a wife and children, and a lot of money. But this man slowly forgot his roots and went bad. He is lazy and spends money like water. Soon he felt that he had too little money to use. what should he do ？ He thought about his snake brother, pretended to be poor, found the snake again, and lied to the snake, saying, "Good brother, last time you only gave me half a liver, and no one in the village got all the treatment." They didn't thank me very much and didn't give me anything. I am still as poor as before. "