"What a beautiful day, who is happy?" From the Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu. The play tells the story that Du Liniang, the daughter of a government official, fell in love with the scholar Liu Mengmei in her dream, but died of injury. In reality, she turned into a soul looking for a lover, fell in love with a ghost, finally came back to life, and finally became one with Liu Mengmei forever. The play has elegant wording and beautiful language.
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. Shortly after he returned to his hometown, he began to write The Peony Pavilion, which was adapted from the novel The Muse of Du Liniang.
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In The Peony Pavilion, Du Liniang, the exhausted daughter of the prefect, fell asleep in the garden, met the elegant scholar Liu Mengmei and had 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 most affectionate interpretation of love represents Tang Xianzu's philosophical thinking and secular experience of life and love, and Du Liniang, who is deeply in love, becomes the embodiment of Tang Xianzu's most affectionate ideal.
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