Orchid Dream Legend

You can read some ancient novels: a Chinese tragedy wrapped in a happy reunion. The theme of sadomasochism in ancient literature is written in obscure language, which is a kind of sadomasochism literature in ancient China that cannot be ignored. "The Legend of Orchid Dream" was written during the Xianfeng and Guangxu years. The author, Yin Meishan, was fortunate enough to follow the clear traces of the literary masterpiece "A Dream of Red Mansions" and absorb the springs of various novel genres such as heroes, gods and demons, public cases, human feelings, talents and beauties, and narrow evil, so as to pour out the storms of the times accumulated in his chest. This novel from the late Qing Dynasty reflects the tragic fate of women under the oppression of patriarchy and husband power. It is an outlier among the large number of similar works that emerged at that time that reflected the rapid self-liberation of Chinese women after accepting advanced Western ideas.