The phrase "through the flowers, the leaves don't touch the body" comes from the Diamond Sutra. The original words are: "The flowers are separated, and the leaves don't touch the body." This is a state in Buddhism: everything revives in spring, and we go to see flowers, but none of the petals touch us. People come to earth, but they can return from the common.
In his Peony Pavilion, Tang Xianzu wrote a poem: "There is not a leaf in the flowers. The morning brings light smoke and apricot flowers, and the evening condenses, and the dark green breeze blows the flat sand. There is a romantic place in the long street, which closely reflects the Su family in Qiantang. Take back the Hundred Arts Casting Poetry Hall, but many poems are also busy. Inspire Kyushu's feelings and inject poetry into the program. Peony is dead, and it is romantic to be a ghost. " Describe the story that Du Liniang dreamed that a scholar asked her to write a poem with a willow branch in her hand, and was later carried to the Peony Pavilion by the scholar to have sex.
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Tang Xianzu (1550— 16 16) was a dramatist and writer in China in the Ming Dynasty. Word meaning is still, Hai Ruo people, number if stone, Qingyuan road flyover. Han nationality, Linchuan, Jiangxi. Tang was born in Yunshan Township, Linchuan County, and later moved to Tangjiashan (now Fuzhou City). Born in a scholarly family, he has a long-standing reputation. He is not only proficient in China's ancient poems, but also in astronomy, geography and medical divination.
Among Tang Xianzu's achievements in many aspects, opera creation is the most important. His dramatic works, Return to the Soul, The Story of Purple Hairpin, Conan and Handan, are collectively called "Four Dreams in Linchuan", among which Peony Pavilion is his masterpiece. These plays are not only loved by the people of China, but also spread to Britain, Japanese, German, Russian and many other countries, and are regarded as the treasures of world drama art. ..
Tang's monograph "The Temple of Qingyuan Opera in Yihuang County" is also an important opera performance document in the history of China opera, which has a pioneering guiding role. Tang Xianzu is also an outstanding poet. There are four volumes of the Complete Works of Tang Yuming, one volume of Hongquan Yicao, and two volumes of Asking about Acacia.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tang Xianzu