About This Novel
"The Soul of Jade Pear" is a classical Chinese tragic novel written by Xu Zhenya, a novelist of the Republic of China in 1912. The novel tells the story of young teacher He Mengxia who fell in love with the young widow Bai Liying after seeing her for the first time. Later, although the two fell in love, they were ultimately unable to unite due to feudal ethics, which was a love tragedy. This work is written in classical Chinese that is clear and elegant, with alternating parallel and prose. The plot is relatively simple, the detailed description and psychological description are delicate and vivid, and it has strong lyricism. In the early years of the Republic of China when feudal consciousness was still strong, it had obvious progressive significance.
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