"Liang Zhu's hometown," Luyi said
Li Xianliwen.
For thousands of years, the four major Chinese folklore stories that have been handed down to this day are "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Meng Jiangnu Crying on the Great Wall", "White Snake and Xu Xian", and "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". The four stories narrate the love stories of ancient folks and express the ancient people's desire for free love, which has a profound impact on future generations.
A few days ago, the author saw that on page 396 of "Luyi Literature and History, Memory of Homesickness" (published by the Luyi County CPPCC Committee on January 5, 2020, the second volume), the "Legend of Liangzhu" is in Xiaoliangzhuang Village, Gongdian Administrative Village, Wangpitao Town, Luyi County, and the local villagers are talking about it. After consulting the Internet, there are also "Hangzhou said" and "Ningbo said".
"Liang Zhu's hometown" of "Hangzhou said".
Once upon a time, there was a landlord surnamed Zhu "Zhu Yuanwai", and his daughter Zhu Yingtai was not only beautiful and generous, but also smart and studious. However, due to the fact that women could not enter the school to study in ancient times, Zhu Yingtai had to lean on the window railing every day, looking at the readers who came and went on the street with bookcases on their backs, and he was very envious!Can women only embroider at home?Why can't I go to school?She suddenly asked herself, "Yes!".Why can't I go to school?”
Thinking of this, Zhu Yingtai hurried back to the room and plucked up the courage to beg his parents: "Father, mother, I want to go to Hangzhou to study." I can wear men's clothes, pretend to be a man, and I won't let others recognize me, so promise me!Zhu Yuanwai and his wife disagreed at first, but they couldn't stand Yingtai's coquettish pleading, so they had to agree.
Early the next morning, Zhu Yingtai and the girl dressed up as **, and set off for Hangzhou with bookcases, pens and other stationery.
On the first day of the school, Zhu Yingtai met a male classmate named Liang Shanbo, who was outstanding in learning and had an excellent character. She thought: "Such a good person, if we can be together every day, we will definitely learn a lot of things, and we will definitely be very happy." And Liang Shanbo also felt that he was very close to her, and there was a feeling of familiarity at first sight. As a result, they often talked about poetry together, caring for each other. Later, the two became brothers, and they were inseparable from each other.
Spring goes to autumn, three years have passed, and the school year is over, and it is time to pack up, say goodbye to the teacher, and return to your hometown. After three years of classmates, Zhu Yingtai has fallen deeply in love with her brother Liang, and although Liang Shanbo didn't know that Zhu Yingtai was a girl, he also admired her very much. So Zhu Yingtai told Liang Shanbo that he had a beautiful sister in his family, and hoped that he could visit and promote a family relationship. Later, after they reluctantly "sent each other off for eighteen miles" and broke up at home, they missed each other day and night. A few months later, Liang Shanbo visited Zhu's family, and he was surprised and delighted by the results. It turned out that at this time, Zhu Yingtai he saw was no longer the handsome little scholar, but a young and beautiful girl. At the moment of goodbye, they both understood their feelings for each other, and they had already been heart-to-heart.
After that, Liang Shanbo invited someone to Zhu's house to ask for relatives. But how can I wish the staff to look down on this poor scholar?He had already married his daughter to the son of the Ma family from a wealthy family in a nearby village. Liang Shan Burton felt that everything was lost, and he couldn't afford to fall ill, and died not long after.
Hearing the news of Liang Shanbo's death, Zhu Yingtai, who has been fighting with his parents against the arranged marriage, seems = unusually calm. She put on a red dress and walked into the sedan chair to welcome her relatives. The welcoming team beat gongs and drums all the way, so it's not lively!When passing by Liang Shanbo's grave, the sand suddenly flew away, and the sedan chair had to stop. I saw Zhu Yingtai walk out of the sedan chair, take off his red clothes, wear plain clothes, slowly walked to the grave, knelt down and cried loudly, and suddenly the wind and rain were raging, "boom", the grave cracked, Zhu Yingtai seemed to see her brother Liang's gentle face again, she smiled and jumped in. Then there was another loud bang, and the tomb was closed. At this time, the wind and clouds have dissipated, the rain has cleared, all kinds of wildflowers sway softly in the wind, and a pair of beautiful butterflies fly out of the grave, dancing freely in the sun, and flying into the sky.
"Ningbo said" of "Liang Zhu's hometown".
There are also historical records that the legend of Liang Zhu was born in the Jin Dynasty. Jin Zhao'an felt that the story of Liang Zhu reported to the imperial court and sealed the historical fact that the tomb of Yingtai of Zhu was the "tomb of a righteous woman", and as early as the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, and Yuan Dynasty, there were historical books that clearly recorded the names and life deeds of the two people, and the legend of Liang Zhu had been introduced to Goryeo during the Tang and Song dynasties, and the names and lives of the two people were clearly recorded in the historical books of Goryeo in the Song Dynasty.
It is also said that the earliest and more complete extant is the "Yizhong Wang Temple Record" by Li Maocheng, the prefect of Mingzhou (now Ningbo) in the Song Dynasty. It is said that Liang Shanbo was born on the first day of the third lunar month in 352 A.D. and died on the sixteenth day of the eighth lunar month in 373, at the age of 21, and was never married;Zhu Yingtai married in the late spring of 374;Liangshan Bo Temple (also known as "Yizhong Temple") was built in 397. If the records are reliable, the "Legend of Liang Zhu" was produced in more than 20 years from 374 to 397 AD, and it was fully formed from the Song Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. Since then, more important documents have recorded that there is also Feng Menglong's "Li Xiuqing's Righteous Marriage to the Yellow Virgin" in the Ming Dynasty, which has the ending of "turning into a butterfly".
In July 1997, a Jin Dynasty tomb was unearthed in Liangshan Bomiao in Ningbo, and the location, specifications and burial utensils of the tomb are consistent with the identity and burial place of Liangshan Boyin County recorded in the historical records, and are considered to be credible physical materials.
For this reason, Ma Chengzhao, an expert in the study of Liang Zhu culture and chairman of the Ningbo Yinzhou District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said that according to his research on the "Yinxian Chronicles," Liang Shanbo should be a native of Yinzhou, Ningbo, and Zhu Yingtai should be a native of Shangyu.
"Liang Zhu's hometown" of "Luyi said".
Let's talk about Xie An first. The Jin Dynasty was one of the nine great unified dynasties in Chinese history, divided into two periods: the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316) and the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420 years), with a total duration of 156 years. Xie An (320-385) was a statesman and military strategist of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, whose ancestral home was Yangxia, Chenjun (present-day Taikang, Henan Province, China). In the above-mentioned "Ningbo Said", it is said: "Jin Zhao'an felt that the story of Liang Zhu was reported to the imperial court. The author believes that at present, Luyi and Taikang are both under the jurisdiction of Zhoukou City, and the two counties are only a few dozen kilometers apart.
If the story of Liangzhu folklore took place in the Jin Dynasty, then it is more than 1650 years ago. "Luyi Literature and History, Memory of Homesickness" is described as follows: "Luantai, Dongyilongshan Cultural Site, Xiaoliangzhuang Village, Gongdian Township Village, Wangpitao Town (archaeologists believe that the site has a long history, more than 5,000 years old, announced as a county-level key cultural relics protection unit in 1978, and upgraded to a key cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province in 1987), the love story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai took place here. According to the old people, there is now a piece of village in front of Xiaoliangzhuang Village (a raised piece of land) called Liangzhuang household, that is, the village where Liang Shanbo lives. The northeast of the village is a piece of Zhuang household land, called Zhuzhuang Village, which is the village where Zhu Yingtai lives. Liang Zhu and the two studied on Luantai, and the well where the two of them took pictures along the well was on Luantai, and Ma Xiucai's Ma family was today's Mazhuang Village. The Dongjia Bridge, where they often walk, is at the intersection of 400 meters southeast of today's Wangzhuang Village and southwest of Pudazhuang Village. It is rumored that this bridge is tall and magnificent, with one hundred single and three arches. Liang Zhu and the two often play on this bridge, chanting and giving each other, each lyrical, talking about a better future, and full of infinite longing for a free life. Today, the second surname of Liang Zhu is extinct, and so is the Ma family, only the love story of Liang Zhu is passed on among the people from generation to generation. ”
In the end, the author believes that no matter what happened in the "legend of Liang Zhu" and "no matter in the hometown of Liang Zhu", modern people have just heard about the things more than 1650 years ago, and anyone can talk about it casually. In addition to leisure, everyone usually listens to the "Liang Zhu" opera (violin solo) and watches the film and television about "Liang Zhu", so as long as you can be happy.
Li Xianli, 52 years old, is a member of the Zhoukou Writers Association and a journalist.