Legend of Qu Yuan

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Legend of Qu Yuan

Applicant: Zigui County, Hubei Province

Item No.: 534

Project No.: i-47

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Hubei Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Zigui County, Hubei Province

Protection unit: Zigui County Cultural Center (county literature and art creation office, county Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center)

The legend of Qu Yuan

Applicant: Zigui County, Hubei Province

Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet in China. In Zigui County of Hubei Province, lepingli, Qu Yuan's birthplace, is the center, and the surrounding areas extend to Guizhou, Zhouping, shazhenxi, Xietan and other towns. There are many moving stories and beautiful legends about Qu Yuan. Jingzhou Ji by Yu Zhongyong of Jin dynasty recorded: "there are Quyuan house and Wuxu temple in Zigui County, but the stone of Daoyi still exists." It can be seen that the legend of Qu Yuan was quite popular before Jin Dynasty.

Qu Yuan's legends are rich in themes, including legends of characters, place names, scenery and customs. At present, 91 legends about Qu Yuan have been collected, which are full of emotion, thrilling, magical and romantic, rich in imagination and profound in connotation.

The legend of Qu Yuan can be used for reference in artistic creation, and it is also helpful to the study of cultural anthropology, folklore, psychology and aesthetics. The national, local and family feelings highlighted in the legend also promote the construction of a harmonious society.

In recent years, the legend of Qu Yuan has appeared the crisis of inheritance. The main performance is that most of the people who narrate the legend of Qu Yuan have died or are getting older, and there is a lack of inheritors.