Legend of Yang family general

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Legend of Yang Jiajiang

Applicant: Shanxi Province

Project No.: 521

Project No.: i-34

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center of Shanxi University

Introduction to the legend of Yang Jiajiang (talking and singing of Yang Jiajiang)

Applicant: Shanxi Province

The legend of Yang Jiajiang shows the group image of a heroic family. At the time of foreign invasion and national peril, the Yang family will stand up to the strong enemy and fight bravely. Its strong, strong and heroic spirit of daring to sacrifice shows the indomitable national spirit of the Chinese people. The legend of Mu Guiying, as an integral part of the legend of Yang family generals, shows the joys and sorrows of a woman who has been through the battlefield for a long time, and conveys the deep love of the masses for the beautiful and brave heroine Mu Guiying. The legend of Yang Jiajiang (mu Guiying) is of great historical and cultural value, and also of great ideological and educational significance.

Yang Jiajiang's rap is a popular folk rap of Han nationality in the eastern part of Guangling County, Shanxi Province and the adjacent area of Yu County, Hebei Province. It has a huge length, ups and downs, and vivid and tortuous plot. The performance retains the characteristics of oral narration and verse singing in ancient rap art, with both sound and emotion. Yang Jiajiang's rap has a lot of dialect idioms, which are vivid, simple, humorous and entertaining, and has a strong artistic appeal; it is conducive to patriotism education and enriches people's cultural life.

Yang Jiajiang's rap is mainly created by the Han people, which combines the wisdom of Qidan and Mongolian folk artists in history. A thorough study of its ideological content, dialect idioms, lyrics, rap forms, narrative methods, structural features and descriptive skills will surely enrich our understanding of Chinese traditional culture. Yang Jiajiang's rap is a cultural wealth left by our predecessors.

Yang Jiajiang's rap has a large scale, with about 300000 lines of lyrics and 600 hours of singing. At present, there are about 170000 lines in two parts (Part one and part two), which can sing for 320 hours. At present, there is no successor for the singers. Yang Jiajiang's rap is in danger of being lost, which needs to be protected and inherited.