The Legend of Li Sanniang
The legend of Li Sanniang is a folk literature project in the second batch of representative projects of Xuzhou's municipal intangible cultural heritage. The legend of Li Sanniang is circulated in all towns and villages in Pei County, especially in Zhuzhai Town, Datun Town, Zhangzhai Town, Huzhai Town, etc., which are adjacent to Chengguan Town, where Li Sanniang was born. It is almost a household name. The legend of Li Sanniang is inseparable from Liu Zhiyuan. Without Liu Zhiyuan, there would be no tragic love story of Li Sanniang. Liu Zhiyuan (895-948) was the founding emperor of the Later Han Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He reigned from 947 to 948. After his death, he was posthumously named "Emperor Ruiwen Shengwu Zhaosu Xiao". Liu Zhiyuan claimed to be a descendant of Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty, so he named the country the Later Han Dynasty, and Pei County was his ancestral home. The opera "The Story of the White Rabbit" compiled by an unknown Pei person in the Yuan Dynasty also said that Liu Zhiyuan was from Pei County. "Liu Zhiyuan's Various Palace Tunes" in the Northern Song Dynasty recorded the love story of Liu Zhiyuan and Li Sanniang. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a southern drama work "The Story of the White Rabbit", which was called the "Four Great Southern Dramas" together with "The Story of the Thorny Hairpin", "The Story of Killing a Dog" and "The Story of the Moon Worship Pavilion". It was later transplanted and performed by many other dramas across the country. In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a Yuan Zaju "The Story of the White Rabbit", also known as "The Story of the White Rabbit by Liu Zhiyuan". During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the people of Pei placed the stone well platform of the Eight Treasures Glazed Well where Li Sanniang drew water in the county town, and built a pavilion and a monument to commemorate it, which became one of the eight major landscapes of Pei County at that time. The "Pei County Chronicles" of the Jiajing period contains "Poems of the Eight Scenes of Ancient Pei", which contains the line "The clear spring of the Glazed Well draws the green shadow". The Glazed Well refers to the Eight Treasures Glazed Well where Li Sanniang drew water in the past. The "Pei County Chronicles" in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China version contains Mr. Li Zhaoxuan's "Poems of the Eight Scenes of New Ancient Pei", which also contains the line "The clear spring of the Glazed Well is still pouring". In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "Eight Treasures Glazed Well" and the "Great Wind Song Monument" were placed 50 meters southwest of the gate of the old Public Security Bureau of Pei County. In 1984, it was moved to the Pei County Cultural Center. In 2009, when the Cultural Center moved, the "Eight Treasures Glazed Well" was moved to the Pei County Tourism Bureau for tourists from home and abroad to pay their respects. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)