Yangjiajiang Legend
01 · Historical Records
According to historical records, in the Northern Song, Pan Mei commanded the army in pacifying the land, and Emperor Taizu of Song granted this place to Pan Mei as his fief, so that it was renamed Pan Mei Village, later called Pan Village. The Baodi County Gazetteer of the twelfth year of Kangxi of the Qing, 1673, records that the tomb of Yang the Seventh Lord of the Song is at Pan Mei Village south-east of the county, with a temple surviving there, and it is suspected that he was the younger brother of Yang Jing. It is told that in the Northern Song Yang Jiye led his sons against the invading Liao, and being outnumbered ordered his seventh son Yang Yansi to seek reinforcements from Pan Mei.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Later this legend also spread with the local people who went beyond the pass to the three north-eastern provinces, and many believers from other provinces and cities come to the tomb of Yang the Seventh Lord to burn incense and sacrifice. Pan Village town was a post station in antiquity and an important communications centre; during the standoff of Song and Liao it was a see-saw area of battle between the two armies. But Pan Mei, because Yang the Seventh Lord had killed Pan Bao in a tournament, avenged a private grudge; not only did he refuse to send troops, he had Yang the Seventh Lord shot through with arrows. After his death Yang the Seventh Lord was buried here. The local people revere and remember loyal ministers and good generals from generation to generation, and from ancient times to the present the people for several hundred li around come here to sacrifice, the incense never ceasing throughout the year.
The Tomb of Yang the Seventh Lord (Seventh Lord Mountain)
The small brick temple on the mound in the Puji river south-east of Pan Village, called locally the Seventh Lord Mountain.
The Episode of Yang the Seventh Lord at the Tournament
The core episode in which Yang the Seventh Lord kills Pan Bao at the tournament and Pan Mei avenges a private grudge.
The Custom of Sacrificing at the Tomb
The custom in which people from several hundred li around come to sacrifice, the incense never ceasing throughout the year.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
The legends of the tomb of Yang the Seventh Lord are the various stories arising around the tomb, centred on the Pan Village town area of Ninghe county, Tianjin, and circulating mainly in Ninghe and Baodi counties. One kilometre south-east of Pan Village, west of Xitangtuo village, in the Puji river there is a mound on which stands a small brick temple inscribed The Tomb of Yang the Seventh Lord, called locally the Seventh Lord Mountain and also the Numinous Terrace Mountain. The legends of the tomb divide into the three great categories of myth, legend and story, wide in genre and rich in content and strongly narrative; they praise patriotic heroes and lash the sycophantic ministers who framed loyal men, teaching people to remember the former worthies and revere the loyal, and spreading the spirit of utter devotion to the country; they circulate widely locally and may be said to be known to every household. Many older people in the Ninghe area basically grew up hearing the related legends and stories.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
Since their formation the legends of the tomb of Yang the Seventh Lord have passed through a thousand years of elaboration and development, taking on heavy historical and cultural elements in continual telling and praise and being handed down to the present by word of mouth and heart-to-heart transmission. They shape flesh-and-blood images of patriotic heroes and are a wordless textbook of folk edification; the lofty spirit of loving and serving the country that they transmit and carry forward still has positive practical significance today. Excavating and protecting the legends of Yang the Seventh Lord's tomb has a value not to be underestimated for studying, transmitting and developing the local folk culture and promoting social harmony and local cultural development.
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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