Hometown of Liang Zhu

Hometown of Liang Zhu

Liang's hometown is the place where the love story between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai took place, located in Liangzhu Town, Runan. At present, there are Liangzhu tomb, Liangzhuang, Zhuzhuang, Mazhuang, hongluoshan academy, yuanyangchi, Shibali Xiangsong Road, Caoqiao and zoutong tomb.

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Located in Liangzhu Town, Runan County, Henan Province.

Legend of Liang Zhu

It is said that during the Western Jin Dynasty, Liang Shanbo, a young student, was studying at home. He met Zhu Yingtai, a student disguised as a man. They met at first sight and had similar interests. They became brothers at Caoqiao and later went to hongluoshan Academy. In the Academy, the two get along day and night, and their feelings deepen day by day. Three years later, when Yingtai returned home, Shanbo saw each other off at eighteen Li, and the two were reluctant to part. Under the guidance of his teacher's mother, Shan Bo took the butterfly jade fan left by Yingtai and fell to Zhu's home. His proposal was rejected. When he got home, he was very sad and indignant. He was ill and died. When Yingtai heard that Shanbo had died for himself, she was very sad. Soon, the Ma family came to marry Yingtai

Forced to get on the sedan chair with anger. In front of Shanbo's tomb, Yingtai insisted on getting out of the sedan chair and crying for the dead. She died of excessive grief and was later buried in the east side of Shanbo's tomb.

Various commemorations

For more than a thousand years, the love story of Liang Zhu has been handed down for a long time. This Oriental version of Romeo and Juliet has been publicized as a classic love theme by many literary works. The Violin Concerto "Liang Zhu" can be described as the immortal music in the world. It's a masterpiece of all ages. It sounds stirring and has a lingering sound. It has been well-known at home and abroad for many years. The local opera, folk tunes, storytelling, paper cutting, painting and folk customs based on this story are very popular. During the Spring Festival, the local people will burn incense and paper in the tomb of Liang Zhu and hold various cultural and recreational activities to commemorate.

It was renamed

In 1997, CCTV's "literature and art gathering style" column gave a more detailed report on the hometown of Liang Zhu with the title of "eternal masterpiece out of the Central Plains". Zhou Tao, the well-known program host of CCTV, and Zhang Li, the program host of military heaven and earth, came here for an interview.

In December 2005, Runan County was named "the hometown of Liangzhu in China" by Chinese Folk Artists Association. In June 2006, the legend of Runan Liangzhu was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In order to better protect and develop the culture of Liangzhu and expand the popularity of Zhumadian and Runan in the whole country, Runan County has applied to rename Ma Town as Liangzhu town. On April 3, 2007, the Department of civil affairs of Henan Province issued a document: "with the approval of the provincial people's government, it is agreed that Ma Township of Runan County will be renamed Liangzhu town.". The administrative region of the original Ma Township is under the jurisdiction of Liangzhu town as a whole. This is the first and will be the only District in China to be named after Liang Zhu.

On July 19, 2007, the hometown of Liangzhu was renamed as Liangzhu town in Runan Ma Township, Henan Province, and the unveiling ceremony was held there. Experts and scholars from all over the province, leaders from Zhumadian City and Runan County, foreign businessmen and local cadres and groups attended the ceremony in the rain.

Exploring history

As for Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, many authoritative experts and scholars have proved that they really existed in history, and the love story between them is also a real event in history. There are many historical materials and cultural relics to support them. For example, JIAO Xun, a famous Confucian scholar in the Qianlong and Jiajing periods of the Qing Dynasty, quoted Liu Yibiao's "Qiantang legacy" and his own personal experience in Volume 2 of drama theory, saying that there were at least four Liang Zhu tombs in China. Mr. Wu bing'an, a contemporary folklorist, pointed out in his article on the legend circle of Chinese scenery: in the process of the spread and development of the legend of scenery, the legends of historical celebrities of various nationalities mixed with the customs and legends of various nationalities, and the legends of people, gods, immortals, Buddhists, Confucians and Taoists intertwined with each other. In general, there was a basic center of legend, from which the center expanded to the edge of the legend circle, Forming the unique trend of legend. The author has found out that there are nine tombs, temples and reading places in the whole country by investigating Wu Qian's Taoxi Hakka language, Qing jiaoxun's zashuo and Feng Yuanjun's Zhu Yingtai's song. 1. Runan, Henan (tomb, hometown, reading Office of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, former site of shibaxiangsong, hometown of Liang Shanbo, hometown of Zhu Yingtai, hometown of Ma Wencai), 2. Ningbo, Zhejiang (Tomb of Liang Shanbo), 3. Qingshui, Gansu (Tomb of Zhu Yingtai), 4. Shucheng, Anhui (Tomb of Zhu Yingtai), 5. Jiang suyixing (Tomb of Zhu Yingtai), 6. Hejian, Hebei (Tomb of Zhu Yingtai), 7. Qufu, Shandong (Tomb of Zhu Yingtai) 8. Shandong Jiayang (Zhu Yingtai tomb), 9. Jiangsu Jiangdu (Zhu Yingtai tomb). It is obvious that the basic trend of Liang and Zhu circles is: Southeast trend: Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang; Northeast trend: Henan, Hebei, Shandong Jiaxiang and Shandong Qufu; Northwest trend: Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu (folklorist Qian Nanyang said: there are traces of Liang and Zhu in Shanxi and Shaanxi). Obviously, there should be a "center" around the legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. So where is the center?

1. According to the research of historians in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the story of "Liang Zhu" originated in Maxiang Town, Runan County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province. There are Liang Zhu tomb, Liangzhuang, Zhuzhuang, Mazhuang, hongluoshan academy, yuanyangchi, the old road of seeing off each other in eighteen Li, Caoqiao (Caoqiao) and zoutong tomb where Master Liang Zhu was buried.

First of all, the "Henan story" of Liang Zhu story was put forward and demonstrated by the famous scholar Feng Yuanjun as early as 1932, and was approved by the famous scholars Qian Nanyang, Rong zhaozu and Gu Jiegang. Feng Yuanjun put forward: "the legend of Liangzhu takes Henan Province as the center and expands around the Fengwu circle. The reason why this story has spread so far is that people admire Zhu Yingtai's chastity. Mr. Qian Nanyang said: "three years ago, Ms. Cheng Yuanjun sent a legend about Zhu Yingtai from Henan. Due to the chaos of time, I lost it in the middle of the way. Now I'll enter the Zhu Yingtai songs collected by Ms. Feng Yuanjun, who was published in the third issue of guoxuemen weekly. " (folk custom, 1932, issue 93, Shanghai Bookstore) the song of Zhu Yingtai collected by Feng Yuanjun: when the sun comes out, a pair of butterflies come down the mountain. Liang Shanbo walking in front, Zhu Yingtai walking behind, walking one mountain after another. The big bamboo poles are cut down to make rafters, and the small fishing poles are cut down to make good crops. It is sorghum, low is cotton, not low is sesame. Sesame field with melon, you want to pick a taste of it. I'm afraid to touch the roots. Walk one river, another river, there are good white geese. The male geese cackle in front, and the female geese follow. Walk one village, another village, and the yellow dog barks. If you don't bite the man in front, you bite the woman in the back. Well after well, sand hook and cypress barrel. A thousand things, but not a thousand.

According to the collection of Chinese folk songs Henan volume, this folk song is widely spread in the areas of Runan, Huaibin, Luoshan, Xinyang and Nanyang in Henan Province. The plants and utensils in this folk song have obvious regional characteristics of Henan Province. The author visited more than ten old people over 70 years old in Ma Township of Runan County. They can sing folk songs in the whole section, and they are all handed down from the older generation (with recording). We can see clearly from the trend of the story of Liang Zhu: from Henan to Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu; from Henan to Hebei and Shandong; from Henan to Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There is no doubt that Runan County in Henan Province should be the center of Liangzhu story circle, that is, the source of the story.

Secondly, according to Qian Nanyang in folk custom of Shanghai Bookstore in 1932, Zhu Yingtai's story has its own special influence among the people, and of course it will arouse sympathy among the literati. The story takes place not in the moving plot, but in the death of Zhu Yingtai zhenlie. In Zhicheng of song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhu was called "righteous woman". The legend of Zhu family is also included in "chastity" in Qingshui county annals of Gansu Province. If it is Zhu Yingtai's "chastity" that makes the story of Liang and Zhu develop and spread, then it can be sure that the closer to the center of the circle, the more people admire Zhu Yingtai. If we use this point of view to analyze the trend of the story of Liang Zhu, we can clearly see that there are many tombs of Zhu Yingtai near the center of the wind and material circle. Far away from the center of the wind and material circle, there are some sites which are alienated from chastity, such as the tomb of Liang Zhongyi king or the reading place of Liang Zhu. Therefore, Ma Township, Runan County, Henan Province, not only has Zhu Yingtai's tomb, but also has a "white Pavilion" for Zhu Yingtai, which is called "white Bodhisattva" and becomes the incarnation of the God of chastity. In Shanxi, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are Zhu Yingtai tombs or Zhu Yingtai reading places. It can also be concluded that Runan County should be the center of Liangzhu story development.

Third, the four legends of ancient China, Meng Jiangnu, Liang Zhu, the legend of the White Snake and the blue bridge club, all took place in Henan Province. From the perspective of the inheritance and mutual connection of literary works, it is inevitable that the story of Liang Zhu took place in Runan County. According to the dictionary of Chinese opera quyi, there is a drama "marriage of five generations", which is a traditional drama of Henan Opera in Henan Province. It describes that the love tragedy between Meng Jiangnu and fan Qiliang failed, and the reincarnation was Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai; later, the love between Liang and Zhu failed, and the reincarnation was Bai Niangzi and Xu Xian; the love between Bai Niangzi and Xu Xian failed, and the reincarnation was Wei Shixiu and LAN Ruilian, and LAN Yingtai Wei Shixiu and LAN Ruilian were reincarnated into Shang Lin and Qin Xuemei, but there was no result. From this we can see that the Central Plains Folk

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