It's all stories of heroes fighting against imperial power with spells and magic. Although there are some different plots, there are more similar plots.
So I think the above legends can be roughly summarized into the same legend type. In order to facilitate the study, according to Selected Folk Stories of Zhuang Nationality [5], Tales of Tianyang County [6] and Selected Folk Literature Works of Guangxi [7],
As well as the introduction of the legend of King Mo Yi and related field materials in several papers about the legend of King Mo Yi listed above, the common plot units in this legend type are summarized as follows:
1. The birth of the hero is very strange, or he was pregnant because of Feng Shui, or he was not born by human beings, or he was born after several years of pregnancy.
2. Heroes study or be officials in Beijing or far away from home.
He wears flying boots or sleeps on a horse and his wife every night.
4. The wife was pregnant and was misunderstood by her mother (stepmother) and neighbors, leaving a hero's boots as evidence.
The hero missed the opportunity to go to school or appear in court because he didn't have boots. He waved or shot an arrow to make the sun set.
6. Because the sun sets or an arrow hits the palace, the emperor or others panic and the hero is killed.
7. The hero went home head to head, and everyone asked: Can he be resurrected after breaking his head? Stepmother or pregnant woman etc. Can't answer.
8. When the hero died, his wife put his body in the jar and watered it with rice porridge for forty-nine days.
9. Mom (stepmother) found that it was opened in 48 days, and it was still porridge.
10. A villain or bee in armor was poured out of the altar. Because the villain's bones are soft and the bees' wings are not hard, the emperor escaped.
1 1. Bamboo was born in the place where the hero's body was buried. The hero once again gave his wife a dream, none of which was bought for 100 yuan.
12. When the emperor passed this level, he bought bamboo as a sedan chair pole when the sedan chair pole was broken. His wife sells one hundred dollars, and his mother (stepmother) sells ninety-nine dollars.
13. The bamboo was broken, and the child with the gun jumped out of the bamboo, and the bone was too soft and fell to the ground.
14. The heroic cause finally failed.