I. Introduction:
A Farewell to Love contains four touching love stories, including four long poems, Du Shiniang, Meng Jiangnv, Butterfly Lovers and Legend of the White Snake. It tells the story of four pairs of talented people and beautiful women, who were destroyed and hindered by the evil forces of consciousness and reality, and finally went from here to here and were tragically separated.
Among them, "butterfly lovers" is the most attractive oral inheritance art and national intangible cultural heritage in China, and it is also the only Chinese folk literature and art with extensive influence in the world.
Since the Western Jin Dynasty, it has been circulated among the people for more than 1,700 years. It can be said that China is a household name, spreading far-reaching, and is known as the eternal swan song of love. Throughout the ages, countless people have been infected by butterfly lovers's tragic love. Butterfly lovers is as famous as Romeo and Juliet.
Second, the author:
The long poem "Butterfly Lovers" comes from Jin's collection of poems "Farewell to Eternity". Jin was born in 1979 in Meizhou, Guangdong, China. There is a long poem "Love Across Time and Space" with more than 10,000 lines, which has been published abroad and renamed as "Dragon Trail". One of China's longest poems, the theme of which is to praise love and reflect the history of China.
The Story Origin and Cultural Value of butterfly lovers;
1, origin of the story
Liang Zhu's story originated in the Jin Dynasty. The earliest existing written material is Liang Zaiyan's Ten Ways and Four Stories in the Early Tang Dynasty. An earlier and more complete one is Zhong Yi Wang Ci written by Li, the magistrate of Mingzhou during the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty.
2. Cultural values
The legend of Liang Zhu mainly shows the ancient people's yearning for a free and beautiful life and their pursuit of freedom of marriage. It is the accumulation of folk culture and represents the positive side of folk literature. Through the story complex of Zhu Yingtai disguised as a man and showed her love to Liang Shanbo, we can further understand the personal feelings of women in ancient society who boldly pursued true love and longed for beautiful love.