[A poignant, sentimental love story, and a semi-autobiographical novel by Xu Zhenya]
[The famous work of Xu Zhenya, the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School of the Republic of China, is also the foundation work of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, and is regarded as the "ancestor of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School novels"]
Since its publication in 1912, it has become very popular that year and has been reprinted thirty-two times. It has been adapted into a play and made into a movie. It is a classical Chinese tragic novel that had a great influence on the Republic of China.
The protagonist of the novel, He Mengxia, went from Suzhou to the countryside of Wuxi to teach, and stayed with her distant relative Cui's family. Cui Weng's son died of illness, leaving behind a young and beautiful widow and an eight-year-old child, Peng Lang. Mengxia goes to school during the day and teaches Penglang how to read at night. Mengxia regarded Penglang as her own son and taught him well. Li Niang was greatly comforted, and gradually grew in love from gratitude to admiration...
The bizarre plot, typical characters, abundant emotions, exquisite language, and elegant poetry constitute the elements that make this book a classic. The prototype of this novel is the author Xu Chenya himself! When he was 20 years old, he was teaching in a primary school in Wuxi and fell in love with his student's widowed mother, but the next year he married her niece Cai Ruizhu. Xu Chenya also had another alias named Qizhusheng, in memory of his wife Cai Ruizhu, who had died at the time. Literature comes from life. Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite. So-called ordinary people, when they dig into the deepest parts of their lives, will feel that their lives are broken and not ordinary.
