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"Words to Warn the World" is a collection of short stories in vernacular compiled by Feng Menglong, a writer in the late Ming Dynasty. Together with Feng Menglong's other two novels "Awakening Words to Awaken the World" and "Yingshi Mingyan", they are collectively known as "Three Words" by later generations. Together with Ling Shuchu's "Surprise at the First Moment" and "Surprise at the Second Moment" by Ling Shuchu, they are also known as "Three Words and Two Pai". As a peak of ancient vernacular short stories, "Jingshi Tongyan" contains a total of forty stories in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in both scripts and pseudo-hua scripts. The themes of "Words to Warn the World" are all-encompassing, including marriage, love and women's fate, fame and fortune and the vicissitudes of life, strange and unjust cases and the weird world, which focus on the thoughts, artistic characteristics and achievements of "Three Words". Except for "Old Disciple III Repaying Favor" written by Feng Menglong, which has been confirmed to be written by Feng Menglong himself, the other works included in the collection were processed and organized by the editor. Among them, "Du Shiniang sank her treasure chest in anger", "Spring falls in the Yutang and it is hard to find a husband", "Yu Boya threw his zither to thank his close friend", "Li banished the immortal with drunken grass and frightened the barbarians", etc. Are all popular famous works. "Du Shiniang Sinks the Treasure Box in Anger" represents the highest achievement of the Ming Dynasty's scripts in terms of ideological and artistic quality.
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