一则动人的爱情传说，广泛流传于中国湖南各地。
一个男孩，名叫刘海。年幼之时，其父病故。于是他的家境非常贫穷。
他的妈妈又双目失明，刘海细心奉养照料其母的日常生活。
他每日上山砍柴，年复一年辛勤劳作。
他的故事感动了一位姑娘。她的名字叫胡秀英，心地善良且美丽端庄，实际上，她乃山中"狐狸仙子"的化身。她喜欢刘海。她俩互相帮助，互相爱暮，后来结为连理。
这是一段对唱，他俩在山中一边砍柴，一边对歌。本唱段降B大调，4/4拍，采用"比古调"，这是湖南花鼓戏一种曲牌的名字。
关于湖南花鼓戏对唱《刘海砍樵》(英译)
A beautiful love folklore,
widespread in Hulan,China.
A boy,his name is Liu Hai.
When he was a child,
his father had died , his family was very poor.
His mother lost her eyesight.
Liu Hai took good care of his mother.
He cooped wood every day,
hard working every year.
His story touched a girl,her name is Hu Xiuying.
Hu,kind-hearted and beautiful.
Indeed，she is a ''fox-goddess"in the mountain.
She loved Liu Hai.
They helped each other,loved each other.
Finally,they got married.
It a antiphonal singing.
They sang a love song,
as they cooped on the mountain road.
It is bB major,4/4 beat,"Bi Gu Tone"，
it is a kind tone of Hulan Flower -Drum Opera.
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