Which dynasty is The West Chamber? The Story of the West Chamber is set in the Tang Dynasty, but judging from its spiritual connotation, it is undoubtedly a true reflection of Wang Shifu's society in the Yuan Dynasty. The writer is from Yuan Dynasty.
The full name of The West Chamber is Cui Yingying's The West Chamber, also known as The North West Chamber, which was written by Wang Shifu, a drama script of Yuan Dynasty in China. The hero and heroine in the book are Zhang Junrui and Cui Yingying.
The Romance of the West Chamber embodies the beauty of simplicity and the idea of pursuing freedom, and its lyrics are gorgeous and beautiful, full of poetry and painting. It is a realistic masterpiece of China's classical drama, which has a great influence on later novels and dramas with the theme of love.
Story origin
The northeast corner of Qinyuan (1) scenic spot used to be Princess Qinshui's cigarette powder workshop, and there was a spot bamboo forest in front of the door. The local people called Zhu Malin.
It is said that in the late Tang Dynasty, a great poet Yuan Zhen was born in Zhaohou Village, Qinghua Town, Hanoi County. The neighboring village of Zhaohou Village is Cuizhuang Village, where there is a daughter Cui Xiaoying. They played together since childhood, and they were childhood friends. Yuan Zhen's father died when he was eight years old, and Xiao Ying's family regarded him as a relative. When Xiaoying was ten years old, his father went to work in a cigarette powder workshop and moved his family. So I went with Xiaoying's father. They often play in bamboo forests, play house and worship heaven and earth. They are called my fair lady, and have met many literati passers-by in Qinyuan, such as famous writers Ling Huchu, Han Yu, Bai Juyi and Jiang Li. Influenced by it, he studied poetry and prose. 15 years old, he had already learned two classics. Xiaoying also looks like a hibiscus flower, beautiful and outstanding, and their private lives are disorderly.
In the spring of the seventeenth year of Yuan Zhen, Yuan Zhen went to take an examination of politics, which won the appreciation of the then Shaobao Prince Wei and married Wei Cong, the daughter of Wei. I haven't seen Xiaoying since then. After his wife died young, she went home many times to look for it, but there was no news.
Yuan Zhen once wrote The Biography of Yingying, in which Zhang Sheng abandoned Cui Yingying at first, but the author accused Yingying of being a stunner, a demon, a demon to others if she didn't, and even said that "the virtue of giving is not enough to defeat the demon, but patience" and "Zhang Wei is a good person when there are many people". His ci, such as his ci, Yuan Zhen and so on, are all criticized by later generations.
Note: (1) Qinyuan: The garden built by Liu Zhuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, for his fifth daughter Liu Zhi is located in Taihang Zhu Bo Garden, Bo 'ai County, Henan Province.