Is the movie about Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai real?

[1] Regarding the legend of Butterfly Lovers, many authoritative experts and scholars have verified that it really existed in history, and the love story between them is also a real event that actually happened in history, and there are many historical materials and Cultural relics can provide evidence.

1. The "Yuanshi County Chronicle" published by Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty clearly records that "in the northwest corner of Nanzuo Village, where Academy Road passes, there is an ancient tomb on the southwest tower of the bridge. The mountains and rivers have overflowed, and the impact will not move it. If there is a Yin protector, it is said to be the tomb of Zhu Ying, the Bo of Liangshan." Chen Lianshan, associate professor of the Chinese Department of Peking University and a scholar of folk literature, believes that this record is undoubtedly the most favorable historical evidence that the Yuan family produced the "Legend of Liang Zhu".

Fenglong Academy, which was first built in the early Song Dynasty, still retains the reading cave where Liang and Zhu studied together. At the same time, there is an ancient tomb next to the stone bridge "Wu Bridge" in the Song Dynasty, which is known as The "Wuqiao Ancient Tomb", one of the eight ancient Yuan clan sights, is said to be the tomb where Liang and Zhu were buried together. After inspecting the Fenglong Academy located on Yuanshi Fenglong Mountain and looking at relevant historical materials, Chen Lianshan believed that "the 'Legend of the Butterfly Lovers' can basically be connected with local places of interest and has sufficient historical and folk sources."

What makes Chen Lianshan quite excited is that the local rural yangko opera also interprets the story of Butterfly Lovers. In the play, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai sleep on a kang in the academy. Shanbo, a loyal and honest man, is unaware of Yingtai's daughter and falls asleep. Zhu Yingtai sang: "Teach you to hold but not hold, teach you to touch but not to touch, kick you in the armpit..." The local language is simple and vivid, with local characteristics.

According to the "Ghost Book" written by Zhong Sicheng of the Yuan Dynasty, one of the 15 Yuan dramas created by Bai Pu, one of the four masters of Yuan opera, is called "Zhu Yingtai Marries Liang Shanbo". Yang Xiqun, a staff member of the local chronicle office of Yuanshi County, said that according to research, Bai Pu once studied under Yuan Haowen and became a dramatist because of his many kinds of dramas. According to historical records, Yuan Haowen has been active in Fenglong Mountain for a long time. Yang Xiqun said that Bai Pu's drama was probably based on local legends. Unfortunately, the script has been lost.

“The Yuan family’s version of ‘The Legend of the Butterfly Lovers’ has obvious local characteristics, which fully illustrates its wide spread in the local area.” said Yue Yongyi, associate professor at Beijing Normal University and a scholar of folk literature and folklore. Different from the existing version of the Butterfly Lovers, the "Legend of the Butterfly Lovers" passed down orally in Yuanshi County has many details that are different from the existing version. In Yuan's version of "The Legend of Butterfly Lovers", Ma Wencai was called Ma Shilong, and Zhu Yingtai died after hitting a monument, and was later buried with Liang Shanbo. "This has a more distinct realism color, and the performance is more realistic and credible." Letter." Yue Yongyi added. [2]

2. According to the research of historians in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the story of "Liangzhu" originated from Liangzhu Town, Runan County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province. The ruins of his hometown include Liangzhu Tomb, Liangzhuang, Zhuzhuang and Mazhuang. , Hongluoshan Academy, Yuanyang Pond, Shibali Xiangsong Old Road, Caoqiao (Caoqiao) and Zou Tong's Tomb where Master Liang Zhu was buried, etc.

This beautiful, sad and touching love story has been circulating in Liangzhu (Maxiang) Town, Runan County, Henan Province for many years. According to legend,

Runan, a thousand-year-old county - the hometown of Liang Zhu in China (10 photos)

During the Western Jin Dynasty in China, the young student Liang Shanbo was studying abroad and met a woman disguised as a man on the way. Zhu Yingtai, a student of his school, hit it off immediately and had similar interests. They became brothers in Caoqiao and later went to Hongluoshan Academy together. The two of them got along day and night in the academy, and their relationship deepened day by day. Three years later, when Yingtai returned home, Shanbo saw her off at Shibali, and the two parted reluctantly. Under the guidance of his wife, Shan Bo took the butterfly jade fan left by Yingtai and went to Zhu's house to propose marriage, but was rejected. After returning home, he was so sad and angry that he fell ill and died. When Yingtai heard that Shanbo died for him, he was heartbroken. Soon, the Ma family came to marry, and Yingtai was forced to get into the sedan chair angrily. When he arrived at Shanbo's tomb, Yingtai insisted on getting off the sedan chair and cried to worship the deceased. He died of excessive grief and was later buried on the east side of Shanbo's tomb.

3. According to the research of Mr. Fan Cunchang, deputy director of the Cultural Relics Bureau of Jining City, Shandong Province, president of the Jining Liang Zhu Research Association, and a famous Liang Zhu cultural expert, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, including Ma Wencai, are indeed historically known. The stories between them are real historical events, and their places of origin are all in the hometown of Confucius and Mencius.

Mapo is the hometown of Zhu and Ma. It is located on the north bank of Weishan Lake to the west of ancient Zoupi. During the Wude period of Tang Dynasty (618-626 AD), in Mapo, Zouxian County, Jining City (now Zoucheng City), there was a tomb of Liangshan Bozhu and Liangshan Bozhu. There is a stone statue of Liang Zhu on Mount Yishan in Zouxian County, where Liang Zhu studied in Jining City in the Yuan Dynasty. Chen Yunqin’s Qijue "Statue of Liang Zhu in Wanshou Palace" written on his trip to Yishan said: "The letter is that the glory and love have not ended, and the idle flowers and weeds have been exhausted. It’s empty. People’s hearts are sore at this, just like a pair of Longevity Palaces.” Cui Wenkui, the Imperial Envoy of the Ming Dynasty Emperor, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry of Nanjing, and the former Right Vice-Censor of the Inspectorate, discovered the old Liang Zhu built in the Tang Dynasty when he inspected Jining Mapo. The tomb was dilapidated and it was ordered to rebuild the tomb of Liang Shanbo. The tombstone had been buried for a long time due to siltation. On October 27, 2003, the Liang Zhu Culture Research Association of Jining City, Shandong Province and the People's Government of Weishan County held a grand ceremony to "rebuild the tomb of Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai". This is the only tombstone among the nine Liang Zhu Zhu tombs in the country. Cui Wenkui, the person who erected the monument, was the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty emperor, the right minister of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, and the former right deputy censor of the Inspectorate. He is the one with the highest official position, the most important position and the greatest authority among the official figures in the hometown of Liang Zhu in Chinese history. Moreover, a very important fact reflected from the inscription is: from Cui Wenkui "writing a memorial to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty" to receiving the emperor's permission to "receive the imperial edict" to "Ding You Gongshi learned about the affairs of Duchang County in Guzhu Written by Zhao Tinglin; Wen Linlangzhi Zouxian County, Gu Wei Yang Huan Shu; Meng Yuan'e, the fifty-seventh generation hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy." It can be said that the reconstruction of Liang Zhu's tomb involved everyone from the emperor and central officials to the officials of Duchang County, Jiangxi Province, the local officials of Zouxian County, and other celebrities of the time. It is enough to see that the origin of the story of the Butterfly Lovers and the hometown of the two Butterfly Lovers has been confirmed and reached a consensus among the Ming Dynasty officials and even the court. Mr. Liu Kuili, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the Chinese Folklore Society, said: Ms. He Xuejun, researcher and vice president of the Chinese Folklore Society, Mr. Li Wanpeng, former president of the Shandong Folklore Society, Mr. Ye Tao, vice president of the Shandong Folklore Society and director of the Folklore Institute of Shandong University and other experts and scholars attended the unearthing ceremony. The unearthing of this monument has attracted great attention from the news media. CCTV, "People's Daily", "Xinhua News Agency", "Dazhong Daily", "Qilu Evening News" and many other domestic news media have cooperated with South Korea, Japan, Singapore, the United States and so on. Foreign news media reported on this, and in a short period of time, it caused a great sensation at home and abroad, and attracted great attention from the world. This is the only tombstone among the nine existing tombs of Liang Zhu in the country. The full text is 843 words. It is completely different from myths, legends and operas. It not only records the place where the two were buried together, but also points out the reason why the local officials ordered the two to be buried together. According to the inscription, Zhu Yingtai, an only daughter, disguised herself as a man and went out to study in Yishan, Zoucheng. She crossed Wuqiao East from Jiuqu Village and met Liang Shanbo. They slept together and were undressed for three years, so they can be said to be devout believers and good scholars. One day, Yingtai returned home because of homesickness. Shanbo learned the truth and paid her a visit. Not long after leaving, he finally returned home and was buried in the east of Wuqiao (according to Zouxian County records, the bridge was submerged during the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty). When Tai saw that the Ma family was about to welcome his bride, he thought deeply about Shan Bo, so he sacrificed his life for righteousness and died of sorrow. The village party officials said that they were buried in Shan Bo's tomb on the occasion of his order.

According to inscription records and field investigations, the original place of the legendary Butterfly Lovers story is Weishan County, Jining City. The reason is: in terms of time, the Mapo Stone Stele is the earliest one to record the story of Liang Zhu. Not to mention that the stele is based on the records of foreign chronicles. Even if it was established in the eleventh year of Zhengde, it is much earlier than the "Ningbo Prefecture Chronicles" and "Yixing Chronicles" in the late Qing Dynasty. From the geographical location, it is consistent with reality. Liang Zhu's tomb is located in Southwest of Mapo Village, it is about three kilometers away from Jiuqu Village, where Zhu Yingtai is located in the north, and about ten kilometers away from Boliang Village, where Liang Shanbo is located in the southeast. If Zhu Yingtai went to Yishan to study, it would be reasonable to cross Wuqiao and meet Shanbo. .

As for the origin of the story of Liang Zhu, Fan Cunchang believes that based on the inscriptions on the tomb of Liang Zhu, this story should have originated in the Han Dynasty. Three Kingdoms and Wei

Liang Zhu Huadie (16 photos)

The society in the Jin Dynasty was turbulent. There was no social background for such stories, and the official selection system would not have allowed Liang Zhu to pursue study and career. On the road to officialdom, only in the Han Dynasty, when society was stable and Confucianism was dominant, could the story of Butterfly Lovers emerge.

Jining is the city in China with the largest number of unearthed cultural relics in Han Dynasty inscriptions. Most of the Han inscriptions in the country are from Jining. As the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, Jining has many Han tombs, large scale, and many burial objects. It is famous throughout the country. The more representative ones are: Jiaxiang The Wu family tombs, the Jiulongshan Han tombs in Qufu, the Han tombs of the Rencheng kings, etc., are all reflections of the social customs at that time that paid attention to rich burials. In addition, it is particularly noteworthy that relevant archaeological experts have investigated the tombs around Liang Zhu’s tombs. During the exploration and excavation of the cemetery, many tombs from the Han Dynasty were discovered, and pottery pots, clay figures, animals, etc. were unearthed. Based on this, it can be further inferred that this tomb is a joint tomb of Liang, Zhu and Han Dynasties. The above are real live video reports of the "Butterfly Lovers Traces" program group TV station interviewing the tomb of Liang Zhu in Mapo.

On March 17, 2003, professional archaeologists organized by the Archaeological Research Office of Jining Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau stationed in Mapo and conducted a small-scale physical evidence collection on the tomb of "Liang Zhu". The results of the exploration were: " "Liangzhu Tomb Monument" stands, 6 meters east and 1.8 meters deep. A large stone slab 4 meters long from east to west was found, which is analyzed to be the incense table used in the reconstruction of the Liang Zhu Temple in the Ming Dynasty. A stone slab with the same size as the "Tombstone of Liang Zhu" was found 1 meter west and 2.0 meters deep at the "Tombstone of Liang Zhu", which was analyzed as the tombstone of "Tomb of Liang Shanbo" in the Ming Dynasty. According to Xiao Guangying, director of the Mapo Education Commission Office, in 1968, he and several classmates from Zoucheng went to see the "Butterfly Lovers" stele and found a stele head that had been excavated. They dug it down with a shovel and found On the front of the stele are the five characters "Tomb of Liang Shanbo" in regular script, and on the back there are records of the forest boundary, the ancestral temple, the stele, and the wing room. What they were looking at at that time was not a tombstone but a tombstone. A large number of building bricks and stones were found at a depth of 10 meters to the north and 2 meters deep in the "Liang Zhu Tomb Monument". In other directions of the "Liang Zhu Tomb Monument" seat, at a depth of 4.3 meters, hard surface bricks, tiles, etc. that were earlier than the Ming Dynasty were found. Behind the "Tombstone of Liang Zhu", stone slabs, ancient soil, etc. were found at a depth of 4.3 meters.

At the same time, a large number of Han Dynasty stone tablets were discovered in Jiuqu Village, the village where Zhu Yingtai is located. Wu Qi, publicity officer of the Party Committee of the Mapo Township Government in Weishan County, is an enthusiast of Liang Zhu culture research and has been visiting local people to collect Liang Zhu's information. The relevant materials have been available for more than 10 years. Just after the monument "Liangshan Bo Zhu Yingtai's Tomb" was unearthed, Wu Qi discovered new important clues. He found a small broken stone tablet from the Han Dynasty in Jiuqu Village, with several words of the surname Zhu engraved on it. He was very excited about this small stele, which showed that people with the surname Zhu did once live in Jiuqu Village in the Han Dynasty. This is proof that Liang Zhu was extremely beneficial to the people of the Han Dynasty in Jining.

Through the research on the content of the "Butterfly Lovers" legend and the ancient villages, ancient transportation, places where the story took place, surnames and customs recorded in the inscriptions, the results are in perfect agreement with the contents of the legend and the inscriptions. Therefore, the author believes that there is solid evidence that "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" have been sleeping in the current "Liang Zhu Cemetery" for more than 2,000 years. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, including Ma Wencai, did exist in history, and their places of origin were all in the hometown of Confucius and Mencius. Mapo is the hometown of Zhu and Ma, and the two cities are the hometowns of Liang.

4. Chang Lu Xiaonong, a researcher on the Butterfly Lovers culture in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, believes that from historical records, the earliest written records of the Butterfly Lovers story were in Yixing. Many experts in Jiangsu academic circles, historians, and tourism circles believe that from Song Xianchun's "Pi Ling Zhi" to Feng Menglong's legendary novels in the Ming Dynasty, there are texts and other evidence showing that Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were from Yixing.

5. Ma Chengzhao, an expert on Liangzhu culture and chairman of the Ningbo Yinzhou District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said that based on his research on "Yin County Chronicles", Liang Shanbo should be from Yinzhou and Zhu Yingtai should be from Shangyu.

6. In fact, the story of "Butterfly Lovers" has different versions in Ningbo and Runan. Runan legend: In the Jin Dynasty, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were classmates for three years, but they failed to realize that Zhu Yingtai was a girl. Later, Zhu Yingtai was betrothed to the Ma family. Liang Shanbo failed to propose marriage and fell ill. Before he died, he asked his family to bury him on the roadside where Zhu Yingtai's wedding sedan passed, so that he could see Zhu Yingtai get married after his death. After Zhu Yingtai learned about it, he died. Wearing mourning clothes and getting married, when the sedan passed Liangshan Bo's grave, he got off the sedan to pay homage and ran into a willow tree and died. Ningbo legend: Liang Shanbo was the magistrate of Yin County in the Jin Dynasty. He was an honest and good official. Because he offended the powerful, he was tortured to death. The people built a large tomb for him. Zhu Yingtai was a chivalrous woman from Shangyu in the Ming Dynasty. She robbed the rich and helped the poor, but was later killed by the powerful.

In order to commemorate them, the local people buried the two people together and entered into a "shadow marriage". According to verification, the original version of the "Two Dynasties Theory" was an oral story collected by the people in eastern Zhejiang in 1982 by the newspaper Shan Hai Jing, and was not a historical record. , and in fact, according to the historical fact that Xie'an of the Jin Dynasty reported the story of Liang Zhu to the court and named Zhu Yingtai's tomb as the "righteous woman's tomb", and as early as the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, and Yuan Dynasty, there were historical records clearly recording the names and lives of the two people. deeds, and the legend of Liang Zhu had already been introduced to Goryeo during the Tang and Song Dynasties. The names and life stories of the two people were clearly recorded in the Goryeo historical records of the Song Dynasty. It seems that this "two dynasties theory" is the subjective imagination of the people, and its credibility is open to question. In Runan County, there are still tombs of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, which are located on both sides of the ancient official road in Liangzhu Town. The unearthed tomb walls prove that both tombs are from the Jin Dynasty. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were not engaged, so it was impossible for them to be buried together. This separate burial was in line with the customs of the time. In Ningbo, there is still a tomb where Liang and Zhu are buried together.

7. The earlier and more complete extant one is "The Temple of King Yizhong" written by Li Maocheng, the magistrate of Mingzhou (now Ningbo) in the Song Dynasty. The article states that Liang Shanbo was born on the first day of the third lunar month in 352 AD. He died on the 16th day of the eighth lunar month in 373, at the age of 21, without ever getting married; Zhu Yingtai got married in the late spring of 374; the Liangshan Bo Temple (also known as the "Yizhong King Temple") was built in 397. If the records are reliable, the "Legend of Liang Zhu" should have occurred within more than 20 years from 374 to 397 AD, and was fully formed from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. The more important literature records since then include "Li Xiuqing's Marriage to Huang Zhennu" by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty, in which the ending of turning into a butterfly appears.

8. In July 1997, a Jin Dynasty tomb was unearthed from Liangshan Bo Temple in Ningbo. The location, specifications and burial objects of the tomb are consistent with the identity and burial place of the county magistrate of Liangshan Boyin County recorded in the chronicles. Physical information that is considered credible.

9. In the 1950s, when the famous writer Zhang Henshui wrote the novel "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", he verified 10 places of origin based on folklore: Ningbo, Zhejiang, Yixing, Jiangsu, Shandong Qufu, Qingshui in Gansu, Shucheng in Anhui, Hejian in Hebei, Jiaxiang in Shandong, Jiangdu in Jiangsu, Puzhou in Shanxi, and Suzhou in Jiangsu.

10. Regarding Liang Zhu’s monuments, 17 sites have been discovered, including 6 study halls, 10 tombs and 1 temple. Experts generally believe that the Butterfly Lovers Reading Center was formed under the influence of the legend of the Butterfly Lovers, and their origin cannot be disproven.

Other historical records:

1. In the early Tang Dynasty (AD 705-732), Liang Zaiyan's "Shi Dao Si Fan Zhi" records: "The righteous woman Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo were buried in the same grave, which is what happened."

2. It was recorded in the book "Jinlouzi" during the reign of Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasty (552-554 AD). Xu Shupi's "Shi Xiao Lu" of the Ming Dynasty recorded: "According to this, Liang Zhu's story is different! "Jinlouzi" and "Kuiji Weiwen" are both recorded." (The two books have been lost)

3. In the late Tang Dynasty (AD 851), Zhang read the "Xuan Shi Zhi" record: "Yingtai, the daughter of Zhu's family in Shangyu, pretended to be a man and traveled to study. She was educated at the same time as Liang Shanbo in Kuaiji. Shanbo, courtesy name Churen... asked Zhishan At the uncle's tomb, Zhu Deng mourned, and the ground collapsed, so the Zhu family was buried together.

4． The Records of the Temple of King Yizhong written by Li Maocheng, the governor of Mingzhou (now Ningbo) during the Daguan period of Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty (1107-1110 AD), records: "The god sighed and said: 'Life is a title, death is temple food, what's the matter? It's enough to say. 'In the later period, Emperor Wen of the Jian Dynasty promoted the virtuous people, and the counties responded to the emperor with their gods, and the imperial edicts were issued as orders."

5. In the fifth year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty (1169 AD), Zhang Jin's "Qiandao Siming Illustration" states: "The Righteous Woman's Tomb is the place where Liangshan Bo Zhu Yingtai was buried together. There is a temple behind the reception courtyard ten miles west of the county. Yan...According to "Ten Paths and Four Bos" it says: "The righteous woman Zhu Yingtai was buried in the same grave as Liang Shanbo", that's what happened."

6. During the period of Emperor Wu of Qi in the Southern Dynasty (AD 483-493), "Shanjuan Chongji" states: "Emperor Wu of Qi redeemed Yingtai's old property and built a temple"

7. In the early Tang Dynasty (AD 705-732), Liang Zaiyan's "Ten Dao Zhi" records: "In the south of Shanquan Mountain, there is a stone inscription saying 'Zhu Yingtai Reading Place'."

8. "Xianchun Piling Chronicles" in the fourth year of Xianchun in the Northern Song Dynasty (1268 AD) records: "Zhu Yingtai's reading place was named 'Bixian'an'. There are poems saying: 'The garden is full of butterflies and disappears, but there is a reading circle in the clear sky. "It is said that a woman from Yingtai studied with Liang Shanbo when she was young, and later turned into a butterfly. However, according to "Temple Records", it is said that Emperor Wu of Qi redeemed the old property of Yingtai, and it must be someone else, and it may not be a woman."

9． The Ming Dynasty writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646 AD) recorded in "Ancient and Modern Novels" that Zhu Yingtai was from Yixing and Liang Shanbo was from Suzhou. It is also said that Zhu Yingtai was betrothed to the Ma family by his elder brother and sister-in-law. There are also stories in the article about the earth splitting, entering the grave, and turning into a butterfly.

10. The famous Ming Dynasty writer Zhang Dai (from Shaoxing, Zhejiang) wrote in the article "Confucius Temple Juniper" in the second volume of his collection "Tao'an Dream Memories": "Ji Si went to Qufu to visit the Confucius Temple. Those who bought the door could enter. The palace. There is a building protruding from the wall, with a plaque saying "Liangshan Bo Zhu Yingtai's Reading Office", which is surprising. "According to Mr. Fan Cunchang, deputy director of the Jining Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau and a famous expert on Liang Zhu culture, the two Liang Zhu people were in Yi, Zouxian County, Jining City. After studying in the mountains, he once went to Qufu Confucius Temple in Jining City to worship Confucius and read the scripture collection of the Confucius Temple. Later, Liang Zhu and Zhu Liang died of missing each other. The place where he studied in Qufu Confucius Temple is marked with a plaque to commemorate it.

11． The story of China's Butterfly Lovers spread abroad and was first discovered in neighboring North Korea and South Korea. Recent research has found that from the period from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Song Dynasty (918-1200), Luo Ye, a famous Tang Dynasty poet from Yuhang, Zhejiang, wrote a seven-rhythm poem called "Butterfly", which was compiled into "Ten Copies of Poems" by people from the Goryeo Kingdom. Among them is the poem "It is said that the righteous wife's clothes turned into shapes", which refers to the story of Liang Zhu, and the clothes turned into butterflies. In the Song Dynasty of China, the "Ten Poems with Notes on Famous Sages" edited by the Koreans not only included Luo Ye's "Die" poem, but also added a section of "The Biography of Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai" in the annotation. This is the earliest story of the Butterfly Lovers that has been spread abroad so far, and it narrates the legendary story of the Butterfly Lovers in a relatively comprehensive and complete manner, from "women disguising themselves as men" to "pieces of clothes turning into butterflies". It can be seen that Liangzhu culture has gone global and has a long history. And later spread almost throughout the Korean Peninsula.

12． In addition, there are other versions of rumors about Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai: Liang was from the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu was from the Northern and Southern Dynasties. They are thousands of years apart. Zhu Ben was a chivalrous woman who robbed the rich and helped the poor. She once went to Ma's house three times to steal money, and finally Ma Wencai, the son of Ma, died in an ambush and was stabbed to death. The people buried him generously and erected a monument in front of the grave. Over time, the monument sank into the ground. Liang was the county magistrate of Yin County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. He was an upright and honest man. He lost his wife in middle age and had no children. When he was buried after his death, Zhu's tombstone was dug out. People felt sorry for him and could not bear to demolish Zhu's tomb. However, it was difficult to choose a place for Liang to be buried. It seemed inappropriate, so they were buried together and a monument was erected. The black ones were beams and the red ones were blessings... From then on, a touching legend was invented. According to verification, the original version of this record was an oral story of the people in eastern Zhejiang collected by the newspaper Shanhaijing in 1982. It is not a historical record. The author of this article wrote to the editor from Cixi in 1986: "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were from two dynasties. Zhu Yingtai was a heroine, and Liang Shanbo was an upright official. Their tombs happened to be in The "Legendary Story of a Piece" was told to him by a folk doctor in the same village who worked as a hawker when he was young, and the village doctor heard this story from an old man in Zhongshan Park, Ningbo. At that time, several people in the park were telling the love story of Butterfly Lovers. The old man from Yinxian County shook his head and said, 'It's all nonsense! The village doctor then stepped forward and asked, "Old man, they are talking nonsense, so what is the truth?" The old man from Yin County told this story. " Therefore, the author of the article published the story told by the old man in Ningbo Park in the newspaper Shan Hai Jing. In fact, according to the Jin Dynasty, Xie An was inspired by the story of Liang Zhu and reported it to the court, and named Zhu Yingtai's tomb as the "Righteous Woman's Tomb" Judging from historical facts and the fact that as early as the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties, there were many authoritative historical books and literary works by famous people that clearly recorded the names and life stories of the two people, the statement that "Liang Zhu belongs to two dynasties" is not a historical document record, but a historical record. The subjective conjecture of the common people, because if one of Liang and Zhu was born in the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for the literary works of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties to record what happened in the Ming Dynasty. From this, it can be seen that the so-called "Liang and Zhu belong to two dynasties" Folk rumors are wrong.

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During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a girl named Yingtai, who was not a member of the imperial court, by the Yushui River in Zhujiazhuang, Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province. She was beautiful and intelligent since she was a child. He studied poetry and prose with his brother, admired the talents of Ban Zhao and Cai Wenji, hated the lack of good teachers in his family, and wanted to go to Hangzhou to study with teachers. Zhu Yuanwai rejected his daughter's request. Zhu Yingtai was eager to learn, pretending to be a divination peddler, and said to Zhu Yuanwai: "According to the hexagram, it is better to let your daughter go out. "Zhu's father saw that his daughter was disguised as a man and had no flaws. In order not to disappoint her, he reluctantly agreed. The Yingtai woman disguised herself as a man and went to Hangzhou to study.

On the way, he met Liang Shanbo, a scholar from Kuaiji (today's Shaoxing) who went to Hangzhou to study. They fell in love at first sight and enjoyed reading each other. They gathered soil at the Caoqiao pavilion to make incense and they became sworn friends. Not one day later, the two came to [Nishan Academy in Hangzhou City] to become apprentices and enroll in the school. From then on, the classmates became inseparable while studying together. Liang Zhu has been a classmate for three years, and our love is as deep as the sea. Yingtai loves Shanbo deeply, but Shanbo never knows that she is a woman. He only cares about brotherhood and has no special feelings. Zhu's father missed his daughter and was in a hurry to return home, so Yingtai had to return to his hometown in a hurry. Butterfly Lovers parted ways, reluctant to leave. On the way to see each other off, Yingtai kept borrowing things to express love. Shan Bo is honest and simple, and doesn't understand why. Yingtai was helpless and lied that her ninth sister was very similar to her in appearance and was willing to act as a matchmaker for Shan Bo. However, Liang Shan Bo's family was poor and he could not come as expected. When Shan Bo went to Zhu's house to propose marriage, he didn't know that Zhu's father had already arranged for Ying to marry him. [Tai Xu was betrothed to Ma Wencai, the son of the prefect who lived in Maojian City (today's Yin County). A happy marriage has become a shadow. The two met on the balcony, looked at each other with tears in their eyes, and parted sadly. Later, Liang Shanbo was appointed as the magistrate of Yin County (today's Yinzhou District) by the imperial court. However, Shanbo became depressed and became ill, and died soon after. His life was buried in Wangqingpo. When Yingtai heard the bad news about Shan Bo, he vowed to die. When Yingtai was forced to get married, she asked to take a detour to pay homage at Liang Shanbo's tomb. In response to Zhu Yingtai's grief, there was a storm, thunder and lightning. Yingtai was so sad that she bit her finger and wrote "Zhu Yingtai" on the tombstone, which was the best last word; We were born at different times, but we died in the same cave. This is where I am buried. When Yingtai screamed in grief for Shanbo to take her away, Liang Shanbo's tomb opened under the thunder and lightning. When Yingtai saw Shanbo's soul, she was so excited that she cried with joy. She even got up and ran to the tomb and jumped into it. In the middle, Yingtai jumped into the tomb and the tomb closed instantly. After a while, two butterflies flew out from the tombstone, flew around the tomb in a circle, and then flew into the sky. In a rainbow, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were in the sky. Reunion. The true love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai shook heaven and earth. The Jade Emperor was grateful for their strong friendship and granted them the title of Heavenly Official to marry them forever. As a result, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai's heart-warming and touching love story has been passed down through the ages.