Xiabaoping Township, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province is located between the mountains on the north bank of Xiling Gorge of the Yangtze River. Since ancient times, it has been rich and stable, and its education and cultural undertakings are relatively prosperous, but transportation is very inconvenient. The special geographical, economic, cultural and historical conditions constitute a special environment for the growth and inheritance of local folk culture, so the accumulation of folk culture is very rich. According to the survey, there are more than 2,000 folk stories circulating in Xiabaoping Township and its surrounding areas. There are more than 100 people who can tell more than 50 stories here, among which more than 20 can tell more than 100 stories, and 4 can tell more than 200 stories. Liu Defang, a 67-year-old farmer in Tanjiaping Village, can tell more than 400 stories and sing more than one million words of folk songs, grass-pulling gongs and drums songs, funeral drums, flower drum operas and shadow plays. On June 8, 2005, the China Folk Literature and Art Association named him "Chinese Folk Storyteller". There are many original folk story works in Xiabaoping Township, most of which have distinct local characteristics and the cultural taste of the stories is high. For example, among the stories told by Liu Defang, there are more than 100 literary forms such as poetry and couplets, which are elegant and exquisite. The story series of the long-term worker Dong Guotian and the story series of the tile-carving craftsman Chen are hundreds of small stories when told separately, but when taken together, they are two great masterpieces, which are rare in folk stories. In recent years, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Hubei Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the Yichang Federation of Literary and Art Circles have conducted eight investigations and academic discussions, and believe that the folk stories of Xiabaoping Township represented by Liu Defang's folk story collection "Wild Mountain Laughing Forest" are the epitome of folk literature in Yiling District, Yichang City, and the entire Three Gorges area, and have high academic and appreciation value. However, most of the outstanding inheritors of Xiabaoping folk stories are older, and the younger generation is less and less interested in stories, so the inheritance of Xiabaoping folk stories is on the verge of extinction.