There are more than two thousand folktales circulating in Xiabaoping town of Yiling district, with distinct regional characteristics. There are more than 100 people in the town who can tell more than 50 stories, more than 20 people who can tell more than 100 stories and 4 people who can tell more than 200 stories. Liu Defang, a 73 year old farmer in Tan Jiaping Village, can tell more than 400 stories and can sing more than 100 thousand words of folk songs and drum songs.He was named “Chinese Folk Storyteller” by the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association in Jun.2005;he was awarded as the representative inheritor of the first national intangible cultural heritage projects by the Ministry of Culture in Jun.2007.