The unique plot of Pile Balong, the introduction of Pile Balong

Zhubalong is an ancient Han myth and legend, which belongs to the intangible cultural heritage protection project of Hunan Province, which originated in Taiping Town and Chuanshan River in the Tuoshui Basin of Shimen County, Changde, Hunan. In the area of Tuoshui, there are still the evil dragon through the mountain, the lotus hole, the support of the Ping, the splashing river, the cover smile and the corner Tai, the lost Niangping (persimmon Niangping), the Huilong Temple, the dead Niangyin Qianping (Ziliangping) and other confirmation places. Pile Balong is the representative of filial piety, is the Qingming tomb sweeping this ancient custom of faithful practitioners, this legend has been passed down for a long time, in the Hunan and Hubei border area women and children are known.

The legendary image of Pile Balong is not like the four Chinese folk legends of Meng Jiangnu, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the White Lady and Xu Xian, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, all of which are loyal love. It can be said that it is the image of "the prodigal son does not change his money", showing the beauty of incompleteness. With his deformed image of destruction and rebirth, he illustrates filial piety and great love in life.

This is undoubtedly a criticism of the current social phenomenon of children not supporting their parents or even abusing their parents, and it is a good medicine for unfilial children.

Expert Long Haiqing, former chairman of the Hunan Folk Literature and Art Association, said: "This legend is a typical type of story in our province. Professor Wu Ruishu of the Lake Master said

It is a native product of Changde area, and it has a certain status in the legend of the national pile. Because of this, some people have suggested that the legend of the pile Balong may be the fifth largest folk legend in China after the four major Chinese folk legends of Meng Jiangnu, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the White Lady, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, and the legend of the Shimen Pile Balong has rich Han folk value.

First of all, the plot of Pile Balong's sacrifice to his mother shows that Pile Balong is a faithful practitioner of the ancient custom of sweeping tombs during the Qingming Dynasty, and it is a literary expression of the ancient Shimen's love for parents and hometown.

Secondly, the Taoist Xu Zhenjun became the uncle of Zhu Balong in the legend of Shimen. It is precisely because of the help of his uncle that he was voluntarily locked in the sunflower well, and it was also his uncle who promised him to return to his hometown every Qingming Festival to worship his mother, and at the same time, under the protection of his uncle, although there were tornadoes and hailstorms in his hometown, he rarely brought disasters to Shimen's hometown. These details tortuously reveal the ancient custom of "uncle is the greatest" still exists in Shimen.

Again, the typical "pile Balong" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has become the folk language of Shimen. Whenever I see a naughty but innocent and cute child in the northwest countryside of Shimen, I will say with disgust: "You are a pile", "You are really a pile", "You are really like a pile, there will be big things to do in the future".

The heart is full of appreciative love.

In addition, the pile Balong mistakenly ate the Jiaozi and became a dragon, and went to level Jiangxi into the sea, which reflected the fantasy of the early people of Shimen in the south of the country to resolutely struggle against the bad weather and dangerous natural environment of the Lishui Basin, which was the original thinking reflection of the concept of "animism" of the early people of Shimen. At the same time, Pile Balong's uncle is the Taoist Xu Zhenjun, he used a spell to turn the noodles into a chain to lock the pile Balong in the sunflower well, plus the pile Balong himself has become an immortal beautiful boy to treat the people, these plots show that the legend of Shimen Pile Balong has infiltrated the color of the fairy road, and also permeated the life breath of Chu Feng's ancient rhyme.

The legend of the pile is a very old myth and legend, and the specific age of the formation is not well documented, so there are several different theories: one theory is that the story of the pile dragon was produced in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there is a common theory that the pile is formed in ancient times. There is some truth in these two statements, because the pile is a dragon, and the core theme of "fighting Jiao and cutting Jiao" is transplanted from the ancient myths and legends of Li Bing's water control in Shu County.

There is also a saying that the pile Balong was formed in the Jin Dynasty, and *** also said in Lushan: "During the Jin Dynasty, there was a Xu Zhenjun in Jiangxi, and a dragon in Hunan." Xu Zhenjun is Xu Jingyang, born in the Jin Dynasty.

The works "The Story of Xu Jingyang's Capture of the Iron Tree in the Jin Dynasty" and "The Legend of the Evil Dragon" are all stories of the Jin Dynasty.

There is also a saying that Zhu Balong was formed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because Chen Youliang was based on Huguang and fought with Zhu Yuanzhang for a long time in Shimen, and later Zhu Yuanzhang built the Ming Dynasty, and fought Chen Youliang in Hunan, and said that Zhu Balong became Chen Youliang's grandson, which is a second meeting.

In terms of geographical factors, since the Dongting Lake traces back to the Tuoshui generation because of its special geographical structure, there is a tornado, hail, flood disaster zone, when people can not understand these disasters scientifically, they think that there are gods and monsters, so they hope that there is a more powerful power to subdue this kind of gods and monsters, so the legend of the pile Balong (broken tail dragon) was born.