Legend of Huang Chuping

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: The Legend of Huang Chuping

Applicant: Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 526

Project No.: i-39

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Jinhua Wong Tai Sin Culture Research Association

Introduction to the legend of Huang Chuping (Huang Daxian)

Applicant: Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province

The legend of Huang Chuping (Huang Daxian) is spread around Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. It is composed of a series of legendary stories about Huang Chuping's cultivation of virtue, punishment of evil and the benefit of the people. The legend of Huang Chuping (Huang Daxian) is closely combined with Jinhua's geographical features, natural landscape and human history. It is deeply loved by the people. It has been handed down for thousands of years and spread to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America. It has become an important link to connect and unite Chinese and overseas Chinese at home and abroad.

The legend of Huang Chuping (Huang Daxian) has a long history. From the available materials, it appears at the turn of the eastern and Western Jin Dynasty. The legend of Huang Chuping (Huang Daxian) has rich content and peculiar imagination, which is the crystallization of people's wisdom. It shows the important characteristics of interaction between folklore and literati chanting, mutual tolerance between religious belief and folk life, and the interaction between legendary plot and natural landscape. It has the research value of culture, sociology and religion.

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