The script "The Source of Jingshan Chu Yuan" tells the story that Xiong Yi, the former king of Chu, and the people of Jingshan, Hubei, made Chu grow from a weak country to a "five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period" more than 3,000 years ago, which has strong historical significance.
The play describes a big Jingshan Mountain in the northwest of Hubei, which turns from south to north-east, reflecting the life of Jingshan people in Baokang and Nanzhang of Xiangyang City, with strong local characteristics, and "Jingshan Chu Yuan" has become a cultural brand in Xiangfan.
The origin of place names
Baokang, as a place name, traces its origin. The book "A New Edition of Baokang County" published by Dongshan Academy in Bingyin Year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty contains: "Song Zhao Taizu set up Baokang Army at that time, and the name of the city began." The "army" here does not refer to the army, but to the name of the local administrative division in the Song Dynasty.
At that time, there were two kinds of people who took the "army" as the name of the city: one was at the same level as the state capital and belonged to the "road"; One is at the same level as the county and belongs to the "state".
Baokang originally belonged to Fangxian County. In the third year of Song Yongxi (AD 986), Zhou Fang was promoted to Baokang Army.
In the early years of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, an ancestral temple was built at the junction of the former South (Zhang Bao) and Kangbao (Kangbao), facing the temple gate on the Kangbao side. There are four characters "use Kangbaomin" on the stone forehead, which means taking Baokang as the county name, meaning "ensuring people's life and entertainment".
Although the word "Baokang" is auspicious, Baokang belongs to the remote mountainous area of Fangxian County and is a refuge for refugees inside and outside the province.
In view of the vast territory under the jurisdiction of Fangxian county, it is difficult for the county magistrate to rule it out, so he played in the court and proposed to divide the field.
The imperial court adopted its suggestion, and analyzed Yiyang (Baonan) and Xiuwen (Bao Bei) Erli, which are east of Fangxian County, in the 11th year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (1April 498), and decided Baokang County as its resident, with a history of 500 years.
Baokang version of Tomb-Sweeping Day legend
Legend has it that there was a scholar in Jingshan, and his father was hacked to death by a tree in order to let him continue his studies.
The scholar went out to study after burying his father. Tomb-Sweeping Day arrived that day and didn't hang a tomb on his father's grave.
One night, the scholar dreamed of his father, who accused the scholar of being unfilial.
After hearing this, the scholar knelt down to kowtow to his father and admitted his fault.
On the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day in the second year, the scholar filled his father's grave with a picture of the riverside scene at Qingming Festival to make up for his mistakes.
From then on, no matter how busy the farmers in Jingshan are, or students from different places who are alone, they will always return to their hometown before Tomb-Sweeping Day and put a Qingming pendant on the graves of their loved ones.
Sacrificial activities in Baokang Tomb-Sweeping Day pay attention to thanking predecessors and educating future generations to be filial to their parents.