Legend of Liang Zhu

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: The Legend of Liang Zhu

Applicant: Jining City, Shandong Province

Item No.: 7

Project No.: I-7

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Shandong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Jining City, Shandong Province

Protection unit: Jining Liangzhu Culture Research Association

Introduction to the legend of Liang Zhu

Applicant: Jining City, Shandong Province

The legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is one of the four major folklores in China and a treasure of Chinese culture. For thousands of years, it has deeply touched people's hearts with its distinctive theme of advocating knowledge, advocating love and praising the endless life. It is widely loved by the people with its tortuous and moving plot, distinctive character and ingenious story structure. The artistic charm of the legend of Liang Zhu and other artistic forms with the legend of Liang Zhu as the content makes it a wonderful flower in the forest of Chinese folk literature and art.

Since the formation of the Jin Dynasty 1600 years ago, the legend of Liang Zhu has been spread in Ningbo, Shangyu, Hangzhou, Yixing, Jining, Runan and other places, and spread to all regions and nationalities in China. In the process of spreading, people all over the world constantly enrich and develop the content of the legend, and even build many tombstones and temples with the theme of the legend of Liang and Zhu. In addition, the legend of Liang Zhu has spread to Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia, and its great influence is rare in Chinese folklore.

The Yue Opera Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the violin concerto Liang Zhu and the movie Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai adapted from the legend of Liang Zhu, and other literary and artistic works, as well as the unique style of study, marriage and love formed from them, constitute a huge cultural system of Liang Zhu.

Like other oral literature and intangible cultural heritage, in the past 20 years, due to the influence of modernization and urbanization, the legend of Liangzhu, which is mainly oral heritage, has been impacted unprecedentedly. The original oral inheritors have died one after another, and the younger generation is unwilling to continue. The inheritance is facing the danger of dating. It is urgent to rescue and take corresponding protection measures to make this excellent cultural tradition continue.