A Warning to the World in Three Words and Two Beats
by G
About This Novel
"Warning Words" is a collection of short stories in vernacular compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty. The book was completed in the fourth year of Qi tomorrow (1624). Its themes may come from folklore, or from folk religious scrolls and novels. The era described in the story includes the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. Many of the works in this collection are based on the real life of the lower class people and express their thoughts and feelings. Among them, a large proportion of works describe love, praising young men and women's pursuit of happy love, their single-mindedness and loyalty to sincere love, and their struggle against feudal ethics. In addition, there are also some works that express the dissatisfaction and resistance of the lower class people against the feudal rulers.
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