The Legend of Zhao Wuniang

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Zhao Wuniang is a legendary figure who occupies a very prominent position in the history of Chinese culture. The story of Zhao Wuniang and General Cai Bojie of the Eastern Han Dynasty was first seen in the novel "Shuo Fu", the Southern Song Dynasty Ci has "Zhao Zhennu", the Jin and Yuan Dynasty Yuanben has "Cai Bojie", and the Yuan Dynasty Southern Opera "Zhao Zhennu and Cai Erlang". In the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, "Pipa Ji", a dramatist known as the "ancestor of Chinese Southern Opera", is the most widely circulated and influential work in the field of Chinese opera, which has had a huge and far-reaching historical impact at home and abroad. Zhao Wuniang's virtuous, filial, loyal and hardworking qualities are the excellent traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, which have won the general respect of later generations and spread widely. The people along the coast of Xiangshan are an important group of legends. Next to the famous Main Hall of Mituo Temple in Juexi Village, there is a Zhao Wuniang Hall! The towering eaves, carved beams and painted buildings are magnificent, and are dedicated to the legendary figure Zhao Wuniang. A grand sacrificial ceremony is held in this area every year on the third day of August. It is said that the area around Xiangshan Juexi was the route Zhao Wuniang took to "Tokyo" to look for her husband Cai Bojie. There is the "Xiangsi Ridge" where Zhao Wuniang played the pipa and missed her husband, the "Seven Bends and Eight Hills" where Zhao Wuniang threw away her gauze after her shoes were worn out, and the "Ascension Stone" where Zhao Wuniang stepped on the stone pedals in anger when she heard that her husband was looking for a husband at Prime Minister Niu's house. Zhao Wuniang was born in Chenliu, Henan. Her destination for looking for her husband was Luoyang. How could she come to Xiangshan Port, 8,000 miles away? This mystery needs to be interpreted from the folk legends collected and sorted out by Xiangshan County and the works that specifically study this legend. Information source: Ningbo Cultural Center (Ningbo Exhibition Hall Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) Information source: Ningbo Cultural Center (Ningbo Exhibition Hall Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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