The Strange Yellow Dog Folktales

Answer 1

Here are some folktales about yellow dogs:

** 1. The story of Song Xiuzhen and the yellow dog **
1. ** The beginning of the story **
- In ancient times, there was a widow named Song Xiuzhen in Liushui Village under White Dragon Mountain. She was in her twenties and had fair skin and beautiful looks. Less than three months after she married Scholar Li, Scholar Li drowned. When she was widowed, the matchmaker in the town advised her to remarry, but she refused to marry before the mourning period expired. After seven days, a yellow dog inexplicably appeared in Scholar Li's house. Song Xiuzhen couldn't chase it away after a few attempts, so the yellow dog stayed behind.
2. ** Yellow Dog Protects Its Master **
- Once, Song Xiuzhen went to the river to fetch water and met two rascals on her way back. The scoundrel saw that there was no one around and pulled her. She couldn't struggle and was dragged into the forest. In desperation, the yellow dog ran over and pounced on the scoundrel. It bit the scoundrel until he screamed and only stopped when Widow Song stopped him. After that, no one dared to provoke Widow Song, and the yellow dog became her protector.
3. ** Follow-up Development **
- Three years later, Widow Song met Carpenter Wang Xiaolong. Wang Xiaolong was loyal and honest. His wife had passed away for many years, so he emptied his family's fortune to treat his old mother. He didn't collect any wages for repairing Widow Song's house. Widow Song gave him a few pairs of cloth shoes to thank him. The two gradually became familiar and intended to spend the rest of their lives together. However, during their relationship, every time Wang Xiaolong came to Widow Song's house, the yellow dog was hostile and bit him many times. Wang Xiaolong was magnanimous and did not care. Three months later, the two of them got married. On the night of the wedding night, the yellow dog broke through the window and bit Wang Xiaolong. It even spat out that the widow Song was its.

** Two, logic and the story of the yellow dog and the white dog **
1. ** Logically based family situation and hunting experience **
- At the foot of the mountain, there was a man called logic who lived with his old mother. Because of his poor family background, he was still unmarried at the age of 28. When he was free, he would go up the mountain to hunt for nourishment for his old mother. Once, when he was hunting, he found a gray-haired hare. The hare went into a small grave.(This small grave was related to the wealthy Zhao Yuanwai. The big grave next to it belonged to Zhao Yuanwai and had been visited by grave robbers many times.) Instead of smoking the rabbit at the grave, he blocked the hole with stones and yellow mud and advised the rabbit to escape elsewhere. He also filled up the hole in the grave of Zhao Yuanwai.
2. ** Meeting with the descendant of Minister Zhao and the aftermath **
- A few days later, when he went up the mountain, he met four men and two women looking for Official Zhao's grave. One of the women was a lost descendant of Official Zhao. The woman rewarded him with a few taels of silver. He used the silver to buy rice flour oil, cotton clothes and Chinese medicine for his mother, and gave the rest of the silver to his mother. After that, he went up the mountain again and saw a few yellow dogs and white dogs running in the mountains. He remembered the saying,"Yellow dogs and white dogs walk all over the mountains and find their nests." He followed them and even shot at a white dog with his bow.

** 3. The Story of Chen Yuanting and the Yellow Dog **
1. ** Chen Yuanting saved the yellow dog **
- Chen Yuanting, a scholar from Huaixiang Town, made a living by writing couplets and painting. He liked to travel around the mountains and play with water. Once, he visited his cousin Chen Xiaokai on his way to the peach garden in Jiangzhou to admire the flowers. Chen Xiaokai's family was poor but hospitable. He wanted to kill the yellow dog that he had raised for three years to entertain Chen Yuanting. The yellow dog begged for mercy in fear. Chen Yuanting also felt sorry for the yellow dog and asked his cousin not to kill it. However, Chen Xiaokai thought that the yellow dog's legs were not agile and it was a waste of food to raise it, so he still wanted to kill it. Chen Yuanting simply bought the yellow dog and brought it home.
2. ** Yellow Dog Save Chen Yuanting **
- Chen Yuanting married Li Xiaxia as his wife. He doted on his wife, but because he often went out to play, his wife stayed alone in the empty room and hooked up with the butcher Zhao Erhu. The two wanted to take advantage of Chen Yuanting's drunkenness to suffocate him to occupy the family property. However, when they entered the room with the blanket, the yellow dog suddenly rushed in and bit Zhao Erhu and Li Wanxia. Although Zhao Erhu stabbed the yellow dog with a dagger and Li Wanxia waved a wooden stick, the commotion attracted the neighbors. Everyone found that Chen Yuanting was sleeping soundly on the bed, while Li Wanxia and Zhao Erhu's clothes were disheveled.

** 4. The Story of Old Zhao and the Yellow Dog **
1. ** Yellow dog blocking the way **
- Old Zhao went to the neighboring village to drink. When he came back at night, a big yellow dog jumped out from the roadside grass and stopped in front of him. He went around and the dog stopped him and barked.
2. ** Found the boy **
- Old Zhao was at a loss for what to do when he heard a child crying not far away. He followed the cry and found the lost grandson of the Li family in the neighboring village.
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