Huangchuping Legend
01 · Historical Records
The Huang Chuping, or Wong Tai Sin, legend appeared about the turn of the Western and Eastern Jin and is made up of a series of legendary stories about Huang Chuping's cultivation and attainment of the Way, his punishment of evil and removal of harm and his bringing benefit to the people. It is told that as a youth Huang Chuping herded sheep on Mount Jinhua and, meeting an immortal, attained the Way, able to shout at stones and turn them into sheep, and afterwards widely dispensed aid to the world and was revered as Wong Tai Sin. The legend is closely bound up with the geography, natural scenery and human history of Jinhua and has been transmitted without decline for a thousand years. The Huang Chuping legend is rich in content and marvellous in imagination, the crystallisation of the people's wisdom.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
The Huang Chuping legend is rich in content and marvellous in imagination, the crystallisation of the people's wisdom; its stories mostly unfold around cultivation, aid to the world and the working of miracles, forming the striking features of an interaction between folk legend and literary chanting and a mutual tolerance of religious belief and folk life. The Wong Tai Sin belief is closely bound up with the geography, natural scenery and human history of Jinhua and is deeply loved by the people.
Shouting at Stones and Turning Them into Sheep
The core legendary episode of Huang Chuping meeting an immortal and attaining the Way.
The Legend of Cultivation on Mount Jinhua
The legend of cultivation and attainment of the Way current in the Mount Jinhua area.
The Belief in Wong Tai Sin
The folk belief that spread with the legend to Hong Kong, Taiwan, South-East Asia, Europe and America.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
The Huang Chuping legend takes the Mount Jinhua area of Jinhua, Zhejiang, as its core area of circulation and, with the spread of the belief, has reached Hong Kong, Taiwan, South-East Asia, Europe and North America, forming a wide network of belief and legend.
04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
The Huang Chuping legend is closely bound up with the geography, natural scenery and human history of Jinhua and is deeply loved by the people, transmitted without decline for a thousand years and spread to Hong Kong, Taiwan, South-East Asia, Europe and North America, becoming an important bond linking and uniting Chinese at home and abroad. It has a long history, appearing about the turn of the Western and Eastern Jin, and has research value in cultural studies, sociology and religious studies.
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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