During the Yonghe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a Zhujiazhuang in the beautiful south of the Shan roll mountain. There is a wealthy family in the village, known as the Zhu Yuanwai. Wish the family rules, property passed on to men and not to women. Because Zhu Yuanwai did not have a son, in order to inherit the family property, Zhu Yuanwai dressed up his daughter Yingtai since childhood. Yingtai is extremely talented, intelligent and studious. When he reached the age of study, Zhu Yuanwai sent Yingtai to the nearby Bixian Nunnery to study. When he was studying at Bixian'an, there was a classmate named Liang Shanbo, who lived in Liangjiazhuang in the north and west of Shanju Mountain, and the two of them saw each other as before, and they were like-minded, and they were introduced as confidants, so they married Yi Jinlan in the grass bridge in the cave behind Shanjuan, and the brothers encouraged each other and promoted each other.
Yingtai and Shanbo spent three years in the same window in Bixian'an, during which they went to Qilu to worship Kong Sheng, and then went to Eastern Wu to study together. The two eat together in the day and sleep together at night, singing and singing in poetry, and the shadows follow each other. Shanbo is not only highly educated and rich, but also loyal and upright, and is deeply admired by Zhu Yingtai. However, in the past three years, Yingtai has always been incomprehensible, and although Shanbo has repeated doubts, he has been supported by Yingtai. Shanbo never knew that Yingtai was a woman.
After three years of living in the same window, Liang Zhu was deeply affectionate, and Zhu Yingtai developed love for Liang Shanbo. Three years later, Liang Shanbo wanted to continue to study in Yuhang, and Zhu Father was not allowed to go to Yingtai because of the age of Yingtai and The Beginning of the Year. The two cling to each other and exchange gifts. Shanbo gave Yingtai Guqin long sword, Yingtai gave Back Shanbo gold folding fan, and personally wrote the word "Bixian". When Shanbo went to Hangcheng, Yingtai sent eighteen miles to each other, and on the way, Yingtai borrowed things many times to express their feelings of affection. But the loyal and simple Shanbo was completely unaware and did not understand his meaning. At the time of parting, Yingtai also pretended to be a matchmaker to promise Liang Shanbo to the ninth sister in the family, and agreed on a time to ask Shanbo to visit the family and propose marriage.
After Yingtai returned home after completing his studies, he did not expect that his parents had already assigned Yingtai to The Ma clan of Yixi Whale Pond. Shanbo returned from a study tour in Yuhang, visited the Zhu family, Yingtai red makeup green sleeves, Luo Fan covered his face, came to meet, Shanbo Fang knew that she was a woman. When he learned that Yingtai had hired Ma Shi, his intestines were broken and he was extremely sad. The two made a vow of parting: "You cannot get married in life, and you will die in pairs." ”
After Liang Zhu's tearful farewell, Shanbo became depressed and died soon after, and died in Xihuqiao, a village. Yingtai was devastated to hear the news and decided to be martyred. On the day of leaving the cabinet, he insisted on going through the Huqiao Memorial Service. When the palanquin arrived at the tomb of Huqiao Mountain, the Yingtai went up to the altar to offer sacrifices, weeping and colliding with the monument, and suddenly the wind was fierce, the sky was chaotic, the sand was flying away, the ground was suddenly cracked, and the Yingtai fell into it. After the wind and rain stopped, the rainbow hung high, and there were two huge butterflies, which danced and danced, and were said to be the spirits of Liang Zhu and Liang Zhu, the black one was Zhu Yingtai, the yellow one was Liang Shanbo, the couple was yiyi, inseparable, and the wings flew between heaven and earth.
So does this story really exist?
The historical Liang Shanbo was a county commander in the Ningbo region during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is said that he was a good official who was honest and honest, with clean sleeves, spotless, undaunted by power, and selflessness, who was deeply loved by the local people, and was known as "Liang Qingtian", the most representative "model of honest government" in the old feudal ruling class. Unfortunately, his life expectancy was not long, and he died young, leaving no property for his family and children. The only ones left are the "Motto of Governing the Family" and thousands of books. His family and local people followed his will and buried him on the hillside of the county where he had been an official for many years, leaving neither a grand cemetery nor a tall tombstone, leaving only a humble tombstone and a small earthen mound. With the passage of time, Liang Shanbo has gradually been forgotten by the world, and its mounds have also fallen into disrepair and disappeared in the long river of history, and no trace can be found.
And just like that, more than two hundred years have passed. A fortuitous opportunity allowed Liang Shanbo to see the light of day again. There is a rich man with the surname Zhu in the local area, whose family is very well-off, and is called "Zhu Yuanwai". He had no children under his knees, only one daughter, and took the name Yingtai. Yingtai has been smart and clever since childhood, and her parents regard it as a pearl in the palm of their hands and cherish it. In the blink of an eye, Yingtai is seventeen or eighteen years old, and he has come out of the country with a heavenly fragrance, a touching appearance, and a knowledgeable dali. Who expected that the red face and thin life, at the age of eighteen, a violent illness caused his incense to disappear, and his family was devastated. He did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to ask people to find a cemetery with good "feng shui" for Yingtai to bury. When the tomb was excavated in a good position, a strange thing happened: this tomb was just dug on top of the tomb of Liang Shanbo buried here more than two hundred years ago, and the Family learned of Liang Shanbo's origin from the excavated epitaph, and saw such a coincidence, even if it was with his daughter, he had this strange relationship, fortunately, the coffins of the two were buried together in the same tomb, which achieved a strange marriage, which was spread as a good story in the local area.
This strange story spread, after many dynasties, and then through the processing and sorting of drama writers, constantly polished, it was put on the opera stage, which formed the historical drama we see today - "Liang Zhu"