Tan Zhenshan, male, is a famous folk storyteller. His ancestral home is in Hebei. He was born on November 10, 1925 in Taipingzhuang Village, Luojiafang Township, Xinmin City, Liaoning Province. Tan Zhenshan's home is at the northeasternmost end of the junction of Faku County, Xinchengzi District, Shenyang City, and Xinmin City. It was an immigrant village during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, and the residents came from Shandong, Henan, and Hebei. Tan Zhenshan can tell 600 folk stories, most of which are legends of customs and objects, stories of ghosts and foxes, legends of historical figures, life stories, and jokes. These stories are basically passed down through family, relatives and friends. Tan Zhenshan has lived and worked on the black soil that raised him for 80 years, and has been telling stories to everyone in the fields, on the kang, at the street corner, and in front of the door for more than 20 years. Tan Zhenshan was first discovered in the integrated survey of folk literature in the late 1980s, and folk literature workers collected and recorded the folk stories he told. In 1988, Shenyang City and Xinmin County jointly published "Selected Stories of Tan Zhenshan", which selected 53 folk stories told by Tan Zhenshan. The stories told by Tan Zhenshan have attracted the attention of academic circles at home and abroad. In 1992, Tan Zhenshan was invited by the mayor of Motono City, Japan to attend the "World Folk Art Expo" in Japan, and told Chinese folk stories to scholars from Japan, India, South Korea, Italy, Germany and other countries who attended the conference. Professor Chen Yiyuan of National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan and his students have visited Tan Zhenshan's home twice to record. Tan Zhenshan is the first person among folk storytellers to give lectures at university. Tan Zhenshan is a representative figure of oral literature in the Liaohe region. Since 1989, he has been hired as an off-campus counselor for middle and primary schools in Luojiafang Township, Xinmin City; in 1989, he was named an "excellent folk storyteller" by Liaoning Province. Now he is a member of the Liaoning Provincial Folk Artists Association. Tan Zhenshan is 80 years old. Although his oral literature has been partially recorded, it is not enough to reflect its full picture. At present, although there are a small number of inheritors of Tan Zhenshan's folk stories, they can only tell part of them. If the stories in Tan Zhenshan's memory are not recorded and rescued as soon as possible, it will become a regret for all ages. Source: China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network