Folk Tales of Zhucheng

In Zhucheng, Shandong Province, the legend of "Liang Zhu" can be said to have been passed down for a long time and is a household name. The place where the incident took place, there are still taboos regarding the custom of intermarriage, which are not known to outsiders. The Liang Zhu story here is roughly the same as in many parts of the country.

The only unique thing is that the story took place in Zhucheng City, Shandong Province, Shiqiaozi town north of the small stone bridge is still there, is a not big hanging arch bridge, stone bridge on the surface of the rubbing smooth, still quite strong, here from the small Liangshan exactly eighteen whole miles.

On this small stone bridge, Yingtai face with three years of Liang brother, love is again difficult to self-control, and then proposed for the family's little nine sisters as a matchmaker promised to Shanbo, and urged Shanbo must be early to Zhu family proposed marriage. The two of them said goodbye to each other only after seeing Shan Bo's promise.

When Shan Bo went back to the mountain to say goodbye to his master, he learned from his master's mother that Yingtai was the little nine sisters, and rushed to the Zhu family to propose marriage. When Liang Shanbo knew that Zhu had forcibly promised Yingtai to Ma Wencai, he was expelled without even seeing Yingtai, and returned home with a deep regret and a sickness, coughing all day long and not taking in any water or soup, so he fell ill.

When Shan Bo was seriously ill, he instructed his mother to say, "When I die, don't go elsewhere to be buried, just bury in the river cliffs of Lizhang." Because he knew that Ma Wencai's family was in the village of Majiazhuangzi in Guanzhuang Township, Anqiu City, today, and Yingtai must pass through this place when she got married. After saying that, Shan Bo a life to heaven, only nineteen years old. Liang mother really in accordance with her son's instructions, will Shanbo far buried to the present day Shiqiaozi town Lizhang village north of the drainage river north of the cliff.

Expanded

Shandong Zhucheng's "Liang Zhu" legend has a special flavor, with real, beautiful, close, sad and unique.

The reason why the legend of "Liang Zhucheng" has been passed down for a long time and has a lot of charms is that Liang Zhucheng is really from Zhucheng, Shandong Province. 2007, the legend of Liang Zhucheng was listed in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage of Zhucheng City, Shandong Province.

China's "Liang Zhu" legend, has always been a fight, but like Shandong Zhucheng such as the exact historical sites are rare. Contemporary historians have basically identified Liang Zhu prototype is a real love story that happened in Zhucheng, and there are real village names, field locations, and even more prototypes of the characters, the place of origin to this day, there is no intermarriage, more than in other areas of the legend is more complete, more credible.

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