Huang Guiyuan began to study in school for ten years at the age of seven. I have finished primary school, university, Analects of Confucius, Mencius, the Book of Changes, the Spring and Autumn Period, and I have also learned the Four Books and Five Classics.
During the ten years when he was a teenager, his grandfather and father not only paid attention to his lessons, but also often told him some anecdotes about celebrities, stories about good people and smart people, stories about animals and plants. Teaching him to be a man, especially Mr. Leo Lee in the study room, has a great influence on Huang Guiyuan. Huang Guiyuan likes listening to old people telling stories very much. He often hears them late at night and forgets how time passes. Mr. Leo Lee has traveled to many places and personally experienced many upheavals. He has heard many folk stories and is knowledgeable. He often inspires students with folk stories.
Therefore, Huang Guiyuan's grandfather and father, especially Mr. Leo Lee, are not only the main teachers of folk stories, but also the decisive figures of folk story oral artists who contributed to Huang Guiyuan's growth.
1April, 937, Huang Guiyuan crossed Tumen River with his parents and settled in Longjing, Yanbian Prefecture. After liberation, Huang Guiyuan has been engaged in agriculture in Longshuiping Village, Badao Township, Longjing City. Folk stories are often told in fields, newspaper reading groups for the elderly and at home. The villagers and children in the village like to listen to Huang Guiyuan's story.
The story of Huang Guiyuan
Huang Guiyuan tells 1070 stories, ranking first among the three storytellers in China. There are myths, biographies of great men, historical stories, anti-Japanese stories, life stories, folk stories, "Four Books and Five Classics" stories, jokes, proverbs, riddles and animal and plant stories.
Among the stories told by Huang Guiyuan, there are not only Korean celebrities' stories, historical stories, myths and legends, but also the history of China, especially many stories about the Four Books and Five Classics, local stories and anti-Japanese stories.
Among the stories told by Huang Guiyuan, there are not only important anecdotes of North Korean myths and legends such as Park He Ju, Wang Jian and Li Chenggui; There are also anecdotes about historical figures and celebrities, such as the Queen of Virtue, Park Wan-soo, Zheng Mengzhou and Huang Zhenyi. There are also fantasy stories, life stories, stories of smart people, stories of animals and plants, fables, jokes and times that have been circulating among working people for a long time.
In his stories, the stories about Korean immigration history, reclamation history, local legends and new stories after liberation, which were produced after Koreans moved to the northeast of China, have historical characteristics. In addition, there are stories about Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Chenggui and Taiyuan, which were produced and circulated in the ancient cultural exchanges between China and North Korea, and folk stories of Han, Manchu, Mongolian and other brotherly peoples widely circulated among Korean people. In addition, there are hundreds of proverbs, figures of speech and riddles he spoke.
There are many Korean folk stories in The Story of Huang Guiyuan, which shows a wealth of folk galleries and can be called an encyclopedia of Korean traditional folk culture.
Mr. Huang Guiyuan is not only a folk storyteller, but also an expert in folk agriculture (he used to be an agricultural adviser to Comrade Zhu Dehai, the first governor of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture) and an expert in oriental medicine. His stories about agriculture and medicine are full of knowledge and science.
The story he told is relatively complete, with almost no fragments, omissions, misinformation and repetition. The story in Huang Guiyuan's mouth, like a torrent rushing into the river bank, is endless, and it has been told for seven days.
He attaches importance to the oral nature of the story and his own narrative style. His stories are interesting, the characters are vivid, the plot is rigorous and the language is vivid, which shows his unique literary style different from other storytellers. When he tells other people's stories, he can not only tell them exactly, but also recreate them to make the stories more vivid, thus turning other people's things into his own, which is also one of Huang Guiyuan's artistic talents. 1987 12 15. Huang Guiyuan died at the age of 79. The day before his death, before greeting his children, he took the hand of a folk artist and said, "The story is not finished yet, I want to tell it."
Main value
Huang Guiyuan is a very learned man. He has rich knowledge of philosophy, literature, medicine, agriculture, language and so on, and is also of great research value to folklore, religion and geomantic omen.
His story shows rich folk galleries, is an encyclopedia of Korean traditional folk culture, and is also the historical and cultural information of Korean agriculture and medicine.
The story told by Huang Guiyuan is not only his personal wealth, but also the wealth of Korean folk literature and even the whole Chinese nation. It provides complete information for the study of history, folklore, religion and linguistics, and also provides a rare oral text for the study of the inheritance process of Korean folk literature and the comparative study of Korean folk literature and other national folk literature, which has become a valuable asset for the development of national literature and art and provided a good teaching material for revolutionary traditional education and patriotism education.