Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
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Zhang Henshui's "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is set in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and is adapted from one of the four major folk love stories in ancient China. The novel tells the story of Zhu Yingtai, a beautiful and intelligent woman who disguised herself as a man to study. On the way, she met scholar Liang Shanbo. The two were classmates for three years and developed a deep friendship. Before Yingtai returned home, she hinted at her daughter's identity, but Shanbo failed to detect it in time. After his proposal was rejected, he became depressed and fell ill, and unfortunately passed away. When Yingtai was forced to get married, she passed by Shanbo's tomb and was distraught. The tomb opened and she jumped into it, and then the two of them turned into butterflies and danced. The work depicts the psychology of the characters with delicate brushstrokes, retaining the poignant core of the traditional story while giving it modern thinking, becoming an eternal ode to love and freedom.
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