It is better to die under the flowers and be a ghost than to be romantic.

From: The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu in Ming Dynasty.

It means that it is worthwhile to be a ghost just to be infatuated with the beautiful women in the world and to be exhausted in front of them, and it is also a romantic ghost. Later quoted as molesting women, I will die for beautiful women!

Original text:

Ask what you want, ask what you want, peony dies, and being a ghost is romantic!

You don't want anything, you don't want anything, don't let lonely women enter an account to solve thousands of worries!

Ask yourself what you can pursue and what you want. I would rather die in front of a woman, even if I am a ghost, I will enjoy it, and there is nothing to think about. I have nothing to pursue and nothing to think about. I just want to make a woman not lonely and help her get rid of her troubles.

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The Creation Background of Peony Pavilion

Tang Xianzu had an extraordinary mind and talent since he was a child. However, due to his bad luck, he offended the dignitaries and failed in the imperial examination four times, which made Tang Xianzu have a clear and profound understanding of the disadvantages of the imperial examination system, the ugly face of the dignitaries and malicious retaliation.

The hardships on the road of life have not changed Tang Xianzu's principle of upholding himself and attaching importance to virtue, but have created his style of firm will and paying attention to integrity. Soon, Tang Xianzu, who was in danger in the officialdom, slowly reduced his ambition to apply what he had learned.

After the official was demoted, Tang Xianzu made up his mind to bid farewell to officialdom and put his enthusiasm for serving the country into his opera creation. Tang Xianzu, who attaches great importance to emotion and righteousness, has always closely linked "emotion" with "ambition" and pointed out that "everything has its own ambition".

Early on, I began to try to develop opera creation with the theme of romance as the core. The friendly interaction between Tang Xianzu and his friends, that is, "dreams are born out of feelings" and "feelings are suitable for life", brought him a special emotional experience, and finally prompted Tang Xianzu to embark on the creative road of "dreaming from feelings and acting from dreams". ?

In the 28th year of Wanli (1598), Tang Xianzu resigned and returned to his hometown Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province. He is 49 years old. He heard and recorded the love experiences of some young men and women in his life, which inspired his creative feelings.

Soon after he returned to his hometown, he began to write Peony Pavilion. The story of The Peony Pavilion is adapted from the novel The Resurrection of Du Liniang. In the early Ming Dynasty, due to the differences in languages, customs and traditional music, legendary dramas can be said to be the competition between different operas.

Includes a large number of local acoustic cavities with different styles. By the mid-Ming Dynasty, the four most popular southern dialects were Haiyan, Yu Yaoqiang, Yiyang and Kunshan.

During Jiajing and Qin Long years, a group of traditional Chinese opera artists, represented by Wei Liangfu, made a comprehensive improvement on Kunshan Opera. Kunshan dialect will be re-planned in singing, singing, accompaniment, charm and flat tone application.

Created a fresh and elegant tone style, called "water mill tone" and "cold dish tone" The story of the resurrection of Peony Pavilion is based on Yihuang tune, which originated from Haiyan tune.