Yong Dong and the Seven Fairys are the fifth largest love legends and the fifth largest folklore in ancient China. It was first seen in the biography of the dutiful son by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty. Since then, there have been related records in Ganoderma lucidum written by Cao Zhi in the Three Kingdoms and Sou Shen Ji written by Gan Bao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Ganbaolu, with its outstanding theme (filial piety) and complete plot (riding a deer in a sedan chair to bury his father, selling himself to bury his father and helping your husband pay his debts), has been widely circulated in rural areas of China, and has become the mother of story evolution and literary transplantation for more than two thousand years, which has far-reaching influence on future generations.
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The Historical Origin of the Story of Yong Dong and the Seven Fairies
The legend of Dong Yong has been widely spread all over the country in history, and it has been continuously combined with people's lives in various places in the long spread process of more than 2,000 years.
In ancient books, there are countless stories about "Yong Dong" and "Seven Fairies" in Xixi, Dongtai, many of which are developed and evolved.
The touching story of Yong Dong's filial piety to his parents has been compiled into many dramas, the earliest of which is the legendary drama Brocade in Ming Dynasty, and the most famous one is Huangmei Opera The Fairy Couple.
1952, The Fairy Couple of Huangmei Opera was re-adapted by Hong Fei and others. In the play, vivid images such as honest and honest Yong Dong, kind and beautiful seven fairies, fairy sisters who helped each other, bitter and unkind outside Fu Yuan, and cruel jade emperor were created, which were deeply left in people's memories with beautiful dancing and beautiful Huangmei tune.
Especially the outstanding performance of Yan Fengying, a famous Huangmei Opera performer, makes the folklore story of "Yong Dong meets an immortal" more fascinating, and the artistic image of "Seven Fairies" is well known to everyone.
In the last hundred years since the 20th century, Yong Dong's story has been the subject of popular literature (such as rap and opera) with a wide audience and later film and television literature creation, and many far-reaching works have appeared, such as Huangmei Opera "The Immortal Match".
Reference source: Yong Dong Legend-Baidu Encyclopedia