It is difficult for men and women to become bosom friends. May all lovers in the world be good.
It means lamenting that men and women with true temperament in the world are bosom friends, or wishing all lovers in the world well.
From —— The Story of the Western Chamber by Wang Yuan, a master of China ancient literature.
Wang Shifu, the author, became an idiom and a common phrase through the hero's sincere call for beautiful love in The West Chamber. People often say: lovers get married.
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1, Introduction to the West Chamber
Zhang Sheng met Miss Guo Xiang Cui Yingying in Pujiu Temple and fell in love at first sight. Sun Feihu, who happened to rebel, marched around the temple and forced SuoYingying to be Mrs. Zhazhai. In Cui's mother's mouth, he got married, and with the help of his friend General White Horse, he lifted the crisis. Unexpectedly, Cui's mother reneged on her marriage and Zhang was lovesick.
Yingying loves Zhang Sheng, not a positive confession; After many twists and turns, with the help of the matchmaker, Yingying finally went to Zhang Sheng's residence for a private meeting. Mother Cui sensed the signs and tortured the matchmaker. On the contrary, the matchmaker hit the nail on the head and reluctantly agreed to the marriage, but on the grounds of family status, Zhang Sheng immediately went to Beijing to take the exam.
After seeing off Shili Pavilion, Zhang Sheng went to Beijing to win the championship. Zheng Heng took the opportunity to fabricate a lie, saying that Zhang Sheng married another woman in Beijing, and the old lady refused to remarry, asking Yingying to marry Zheng Heng. Upon arrival, he was killed and Cui married Zhang.
2. Creative background
Although the story of Cui Yingying and other months in The West Chamber was originally written in Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying in Tang Dynasty, it was actually born out of Dong Jieyuan's The West Chamber. Wang Shifu served as Shaanxi county magistrate and Shaanxi provincial supervisor. Later, because he was dissatisfied with the filth and anger of the officialdom at that time, he resigned and decided to express his melancholy by writing a script.
So he returned to Zhongshan House, where he was born, and began to write zaju. In the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Dong, who adapted Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying in the Tang Dynasty into A Tale of the Western Chamber, and wrote Yingying, the hero of the story, as a native of Boling County. Dingzhou in Sui Dynasty was called Boling County, so the story of Yingying and Zhang Sheng was widely circulated in Boling area.
According to legend, Cui Yanshi in Dingzhou has a tomb of Cui Yingying. Based on this, Wang Shifu began to write his zaju "The West Chamber of Cui Yingying" in Zhongshan Building. The play was written in the years of Yuan Zhen and Dade (1295~ 1307).
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