Tales of Balagencang have long been spreading throughout the extensive Inner Mongolian grassland as well as the high yurts. The protagonist Balagencang is a representative of Mongolian laboring people who are regarded as witty and humorous.
Category: Chinese Folktales
The Legend of the Hundred Birds Costume
Hundred Birds Costume is a well-told story in the folk life of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, most typical of the Baiyue ethnic minority group. The story reflected the happiness and sorrow of people in the Zhuang autonomous region, their fighting against the oppressors and their wish for beautiful life through the depiction of the love between two unyielding young lovers. Early in the Song Dynasty, the story of Hundred Birds Costume was quite popular among the people of Zhuang minority in Xiaoyi Township, Henxian County of Guangxi Province and its surrounding areas. It is handed down from generation to generation and favored by the Zhuang people, enjoying a long history.
The Legend of Torch Festival
Torch Festival is an important and long-standing traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jino and Lahu nationalities. It’s famed home and abroad as a festival of profound folk cultural connotation, and is called an "Eastern Carnival". The Torch Festival is celebrated on a different day by different nationalities, which is usually on the 24th of the sixth lunar month of each year featuring the major activities of bullfight, sheep-fight, cockfight, horse race, wrestling, singing and dancing performance and beauty contest. What’s more, different place features varied versions of the legend of the Torch Festival, which is also a huge treasure in our folk custom.
The Jinjiang River Goddesses of Three Sisters
Legend has it that the three daughters of the Dragon King of the Jinjiang River were touring around the Canshan Mountains and Erhai Lake, when they found that people living at the foot of the Lianhua Mountain in Fengyi County were suffering severe drought. The eldest sister then asked her younger sisters to go back to the Dragon King’s palace, leaving herself alone to tackle the water problem for local people.
Mazu – The Goddess of the Sea 妈祖
Mazu is the most worshipped sea goddess in China’s costal areas, especially in the southeast and Taiwan islands.
Big-Mouthed Celestial Animal
Travellers to Yunnan and Sichuan in southwest China are impressed by the colourfully painted wood ladles in the shape of a strange animal hanging on the front doors of the dwellings of local Miao, Yi and Han residents. The animal looks grotesque with a wide-open mouth as if ready anytime to swallow the demons and goblins that dare to invade. Obviously the wood ladle is a talisman designed to ward the dwellings of evil and disaster.
The Ladders to Heaven
In the very ancient time, the sky and the earth were not so far from each other and were connected by ladders. The immortals and deities could go up and down freely and even the ordinary people with magic power could climb up the ladders to complain to the Lord of Heaven.
Legend of Dong Yong 董永与七仙女
The legend of Dong Yong and the seventh fairy is a story wildly known in China. The story has it
The Matchmaker 红娘
The Matchmaker, or Yue Lao (literally means the old man in the moon), is the god who unites persons in
The Legend of Ji Gong 济公传
The legend of Ji Gong (a legendary monk who helped people with a magic fan) is a folk tale evolved from the story of Dao Ji, a hierarch of the Chan sect in the Southern Song Dynasty. Dao Ji was named by people as "Ji Lunatic" owning to his lunatic-like acts. Also, he was awarded by the earthlings the title of "Ji Gong" living Buddha for his pleasure in defending people against injustice, rewarding virtue and punishing vice, as well as his almsgiving to the poor. Before and after Dao Ji’s death, there were many occult legends about him going round on Tiantai Mountain, a famous Buddhist holy land in Zhejiang Province. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the legend of Ji Gong has been extensively spreading across China as a widely known folk tale. There also exist abundant folk customs and stories related to him.
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