Peony Pavilion
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The story takes place in the Southern Song Dynasty. Du Bao, the governor of Nan'an, had a daughter, Du Liniang. One spring day when she was 16 years old, Du Liniang visited the garden for the first time. When she was sleepy, she dreamed of a scholar who broke willow trees. When I woke up from a spring dream, the scholar was gone. Du Liniang never became ill. Before she died, she asked her family to hide her self-portrait under the Taihu stone in the Peony Pavilion. At this time, the Jin soldiers named Li Quan King of Liujin and attacked the Huaiyang area. Du Bao buried Du Liniang in Meihua Temple, and was quickly transferred to Huaiyang to guard it. The scholar in the dream is Liu Mengmei from Lingnan. His family was in decline and he decided to leave his hometown and go north to seek fame. When passing by Nan'an, I picked up Du Liniang's self-portrait by chance. At night, he saw the woman in the painting - it turned out that Du Liniang, with the permission of the King of Hell, left the city of Fusi. Her soul came to Plum Blossom Temple and had a tryst with Liu Mengmei at night. Liu Mengmei was not afraid after learning that Du Liniang was a ghost. He managed to obtain the elixir, dug up the grave, and brought Liniang back to life. However, the play in ancient times did not end until the first prize was won. Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang went to Lin'an to take the exam together. When the list was unveiled, Li Quan's rebellion happened again, and Du Bao was besieged. In troubled times, can Du Liniang, who has broken through the two realms of yin and yang, be reunited with her parents and finally get married to Liu Mengmei... There is a bold emotion in Du Liniang. In Liu Mengmei, there are intellectual ideals and grievances. Tang Xianzu, who left officialdom at the age of 49, wrote about his understanding of life in "The Peony Pavilion".
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