Liu San Jie Park
The Liu Sanjie park puts on ethnic musical performances 3 times daily. Once in the morning, once in late afternoon, around 3 or 4 pm, and final show at 8pm at night. The performances involves dances and various types of performances reflecting the diverse ethnic groups of the region.
History of Liu San jie
Liu Sanjie (The Third Sister of the Liu Family) is a legend of the Zhuang people and a famous Chinese folk song singer. She was beautiful and was an outstanding folk song singer of the Zhuang nationality during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). She was born in a village along the Li River. She fell in love with a handsome young man who was also good at singing folk songs, and the two vowed to never separate from each other.
However, a evil man in the village was attracted by Liu SanJie's beauty for a long time and decided to take her by force. On a moonlit night, the evil man and his cronies tried to take Liu San Jie away while she was sitting at the riverside with her lover. With no where to escape, the two jumped into the Li River hand in hand, and that became the legend of Liu SanJie.
Today, the people of Yizhou Town claim that they still possess some of her relics, such as a shoulder pole in the crevice of a cliff, a spot she frequented to do her laundry , and a site where she purportedly beat the local despot and his hired singers in a dramatic song contest.
The legend of Liu Sanjie was originally an oral tradition and later found itself in romance, drama scripts, and county annals in Guangxi. Studies show that the legend is not exclusively of the Zhuang people. Its spread turns out to be more ethnically and geographically diversified. For, similar stories can be found among the Miao, Yao, Buyi, Mulao and Han ethnic populations in Guangdong, Hunan, Yuannan and Guizhou provinces as well.