There are relatively few poems about the Butterfly Lovers, the details are as follows:
"Jingnan Bamboo Branch Poems·Ode to the Butterfly Lovers"
Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
Author : Shi Chengyu
Original text:
When scholars go to Shenghuangtai, the spring breeze grows wild moss every year.
The peach blossoms on the mountain are as red as fire, and a pair of butterflies fly over again
Translation: Today’s scholars go to Shenghuangtai, and every year they can see the wild flowers growing in the spring breeze on the tomb of Liang Zhu in Ningbo Moss, the boss's peach blossoms are blooming brilliantly and prosperously.
At Zhu Yingtai Reading Center in Yixing, there are often gatherings of butterflies. There is a local "Double Butterfly Festival" on March 1 of the lunar calendar, which is Zhu Yingtai's birthday. Love is so wonderful, so dazzling, so immortal that even separation and death eclipse it.
Extended information:
The Story of Butterfly Lovers
Zhu Yingtai, the ninth child of the Shangyu gentry clan, is the only daughter of her parents. She was born smart, charming, lively and smart, innocent and persistent. Since childhood, he has enjoyed reading poetry and books, playing chess, calligraphy and painting, and is capable of everything. She was unwilling to accept the secular world and did not give in to men. She tried every possible means to convince her parents, pretending to be Liang Shanbo, a poor scholar from Kuaiji whom she met at Yuelao Temple.
The two hit it off immediately and enjoyed reading each other's books. They gathered soil on the Caoqiao pavilion to make incense and became "brothers". Not long after, the two came to Wansong Academy in Kuaiji City to become a disciple and enroll. From then on, the classmate *** studied and became inseparable. Liang Zhu has been a classmate for three years, and our love is as deep as the sea. Yingtai loves Shanbo deeply, but Shanbo never knows that she is a woman. He only cares about brotherhood and has no special feelings.
Zhu's father missed his daughter and was in a hurry to return home, so Yingtai had to return to his hometown in a hurry. Butterfly Lovers parted ways, reluctant to leave. On the way to see each other off, Yingtai kept borrowing things to express love. Shan Bo is honest and simple, and doesn't understand why. Yingtai was helpless and lied that her ninth sister was very similar to her in appearance and was willing to be a matchmaker for Shan Bo. However, Liang Shan Bo's family was poor and she could not come as expected.
When Shan Bo went to Zhu's family to propose marriage, he didn't know that Zhu's father had already betrothed Yingtai to Ma Wencai, the son of the prefect who lived in Luang County (now Yin County) under the jurisdiction of Kuaiji County. A happy marriage has become a shadow. The two met on the balcony, looked at each other with tears in their eyes, and parted sadly.
Ma Wencai is suave, knowledgeable, and has excellent riding and shooting skills, making him the best among the heroes in the academy. Relying on his father, who was the governor at the time, and his various advantages, he gathered a group of dandies among his fellow students, who repeatedly opposed Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.
Hou Shanbo became depressed and fell ill, and died soon after. He was buried in Jiulong Market in Luancheng. When Yingtai heard the bad news about Shan Bo, he vowed to die. When Yingtai was forced to get married, she took a detour to pay her respects in front of Liang Shanbo's tomb. In response to Zhu Yingtai's grief, there was a strong wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and the tomb exploded. Yingtai jumped into the tomb, the tomb was closed, the wind stopped and the rain stopped, and a rainbow hung high. Butterfly Lovers turned into butterflies and fluttered around the world.