Jingu Huaichun

[Classical novels of talented men and beauties in Yuan Dynasty｜Old poetry and romance books] During the Zhizheng period, Su Daochun, a scholarly and talented man, had a handsome appearance and was proficient in poetry, music, and painting. At the age of fifteen, he went to Henan with his father to take up a post. On the night of the Lantern Festival, he met Pan Yuzhen, the daughter of a Nanyang family. Pan Yuzhen was both talented and beautiful, and her nickname was Haitang Hong. She had read poetry and books since she was a child and was good at writing hundreds of poems in "Begonia Collection". The two glanced at each other under the lamp and exchanged words of admiration and longing for each other. Su Daochun asked a matchmaker to ask for relatives, but was blocked by the Pan family, so he simply went to study under Pan Xiangguo's house, and met Yuzhuqiang through the Lichun Garden Bookstore. In the pavilion in the back garden, in front of the flowers under the moonlight, the two people conveyed their thoughts in poems, and used the maids Guiying and Lanying to pass notes to each other, secretly developing feelings for each other. During this period, they guessed flowers and sang the piano, met privately under the moonlight, tested and pulled several times, and misunderstandings and heartbeats were intertwined. When Pan Xiangguo was seriously ill and dying, he saw Su Sheng's character clearly and entrusted his daughter to him before he died. Although the two communicated with each other in private and abided by the etiquette and propriety, they went through the torment of lovesickness and the twists and turns of writing letters. In the end, the Su family came to accept the appointment, and they got married happily after being named on the gold list. The whole text is elegantly written, with hundreds of poems running through it. The love story in the pavilion and the love of young people are delicate and moving, without any cruelty to the heart. It is a famous classic love story about two-way love under traditional etiquette.