In the 19th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Xin Mao and Tang Xianzu performed a piece on Assistant Ministers. Zhu Yijun was furious and demoted him to xuwen county to be a junior official. Tang Xianzu crossed Meiling for the first time through Dayu (now Dayu County); Six months later, Tang Xianzu was promoted to Suichang, Zhejiang Province, and was once again passed by Dayu in Meiling.
Tang Xianzu also spent some time in Dayu. In chatting with local scholars, Tang Xianzu learned about Dayu's history and human environment, and learned that Shao Hongyuan, his daughter who lived in Nan 'an after his death, became a ghost, and in the local Star Record, he confessed the love affair of Qiu Changsun Bao Ichiro, a popular story, which was "haunted by dreams".
He intertwined these folk stories, stories recorded in ancient books and stories written in scripts, and the framework of a dramatic story "Du Liniang Peony Pavilion" gradually formed in his chest, which was written into a drama "Peony Pavilion" after his resignation.
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The theme of Peony Pavilion;
In The Peony Pavilion, Du Liniang, the daughter of a magistrate who is exhausted physically and mentally, falls asleep in the garden, meets a refined scholar, Liu Mengmei, and has sex. After waking up from a dream, Du Liniang was disconsolate. "I don't know what happened." Acacia became ill, so sick that it was hard to recover. Three years later, Liu Mengmei, a dream person in Du Liniang, accidentally got a portrait of a beautiful woman, and Li Niang re-entered the world as a wandering soul, looking for a dream marriage.
With the help of others, Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei finally broke the barrier of love, came back to life, and finally got married. In this legendary work, Tang Xianzu depicts the touching love between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei. This interpretation of love all represents Tang Xianzu's philosophical thinking and secular experience of life and love, and Du Liniang, who died with deep affection, became the embodiment of Tang Xianzu's most emotional ideal.
DJI. The relationship between the Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu and Gannan: The Peony Pavilion is about Dayu.