There are seven tombs of the Butterfly Lovers and three reading halls across the country. It is difficult to determine the origin of the Butterfly Lovers. When the folk literature and art circles celebrate the entry of the Guqin into the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List, the owner of the ongoing "Butterfly Lovers Application" has added a new one. Located in Jining, Shandong Province, this is another application after Yinzhou, Zhejiang and Yixing, Jiangsu. As one of China's four major folklores, "Butterfly Lovers" has been widely circulated and is called the "Romeo and Juliet" of the East in Europe and the United States. At present, there are more than a dozen places in Ningbo, Yixing, Qufu, Qingshui, etc. related to Butterfly Lovers. Where did the filtered ads for "Butterfly Lovers" originate? What thoughts do the three places have on the protection of this cultural heritage? The dispute over the birthplace - Zhejiang, Suzhou and Shandong each supported their theory of Zhejiang: Liang Shanbo was the magistrate of Yinzhou, Zhejiang. Witness: Ma Chengzhao (executive deputy director of the Yinzhou District People's Congress, chairman of the Zhejiang Ningbo Yinzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles). The legend of Liang Zhu probably started after the Three Kingdoms. Before the Six Dynasties, what can be verified now is that the earliest record was in the book "Jinlouzi" during the period of Emperor Liang Yuan. This book was written around 552-554 AD. However, his original work disappeared in the late Ming Dynasty. It was compiled during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Xiu's "Sikuquanshu" mentions this book. A more detailed record should be found in "Xuan Shi Zhi" written by Zhang Du in the late Tang Dynasty: "In Yingtai, the daughter of Zhu's family in Shangyu disguised herself as a man and studied with Liang Shanbo of Kuaiji (Shaoxing, Zhejiang - Editor's Note). , they had a very good relationship, and Zhu Yingtai went home first. Two years later, Shan Bo visited and found out that Yingtai was a girl..." There are some touching storylines from this historical record. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Maocheng, the governor of Mingzhou County, wrote an article in "Yinzhou Chronicles" and copied it: "Yizhongwang Temple, also known as Liang Shengjun Temple, is located in the west of the reception temple sixteen miles west of the county, and worships Liang Shanbo, the magistrate of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and others." According to expert research, Liang Shanbo was originally the magistrate of Yin County. He was honest and upright, but overworked and died of illness. At present, the expert group believes that the most original birthplace of "Butterfly Lovers" is in Gaoqiao Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City. Jiangsu: The record that Liang Zhu was a native of Yixing is 70 years earlier than Zhejiang. Witness: Huang Xingnan (Deputy Director of Jiangsu Yixing Cultural Relics Management Committee Office, participant of Liang Zhu’s declaration of world intangible cultural heritage) In Yixing, it is said that Zhu Yingtai’s "butterfly worship at the grave" After that, every year in early spring in March, pairs of large colorful butterflies would dance near Bimo Nunnery in Shanjuan Cave where Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo were studying. Xue Jiyi, a Song Dynasty poet, has the sentence "Butterflies dance to condense the soul of the mountain, and flowers bloom to think of jade beauty" in "Poems on Visiting Zhuling Shanquan Cave". In order to commemorate them, the local people named Bimo Temple "Yingtai Reading Center", built the "Zhu Mausoleum", and designated March 1st of the lunar calendar, which is said to be Yingtai's birthday, as the "Double Butterfly Festival". . In April 2002, more than 60 experts and professors from Jiangsu's academic, historical and tourism circles gathered in Shanjuandong, Yixing City. Experts attending the meeting believed that a large amount of evidence showed that Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were from Yixing. Now retired, Jiang Yaomin, an expert who has studied Liangzhu culture for more than 40 years, said that he has also made a major breakthrough in the county annals evidence. According to Song Xianchun's "Piling Records", in the "Shanjuan Temple Records" written in the second year of Qi Jianyuan (480 AD), there is a statement that Liang Zhu was a Yixing native. The earliest records are 70 years old. Shandong: Liang Zhu was the hometown of Confucius and Mencius in the Han Dynasty. Witness: Fan Cunchang (President of the Liang Zhu Culture Research Association in Jining, Shandong and deputy director of the Jining Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau). In November this year, the stele "The Tomb of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" was unearthed in Jining, Shandong. "Come back" because this monument has existed for a long time in history, but it has not been certified by authoritative people. Through the content of the tombstone, it can be verified that Liang Zhu was a native of the hometown of Confucius and Mencius in the Han Dynasty. It is generally believed that the story of Liang Zhu took place in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but the tombstone of Liang Zhu records that the social background in which the story of Liang Zhu took place was a social custom that emphasized filial piety and could be an official. Among the dynasties before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, only the Han Dynasty implemented the system of "raising filial piety and incorruptibility", which is consistent with the background of the era when the story of Liang Zhu was produced. In Mount Yishan, Zoucheng, an important place for Confucian education, there are ruins of the Liang Zhu Study Cave. In March 2002, Jining Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau organized experts to conduct exploration and excavation of Liang Zhu's cemetery, and found portrait stones, pottery and some funerary objects from the Han Dynasty, further confirming that Liang Zhu was a Han Dynasty person from the hometown of Confucius and Mencius.
"In this regard, Bai Gengsheng, vice chairman of the China Folk Culture Association, believes that if we incorporate the legend of Liang Zhu into school education, the inheritance of culture will not be a problem. This kind of culture is easily harmed in the competition of modern cultural development and must be protected.