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My cousin died. For a long time, I couldn't let go of the pain and sadness in my heart. During the planned economy period in the 1970s, when I was in primary school, I was malnourished and diagnosed with anemia. My cousin gave me blood transfusions for seven years until I graduated from high school. At that time, he was working as an electrician in the county cement factory and doing purchasing part-time. He traveled to the city every now and then to buy cement, cables, transformers and hardware for the factory. He saved two and a half yuan in travel expenses and stayed at my house. In addition to accompanying me to the hospital for blood transfusions and helping my mother with some physical work of pulling briquettes and pickling cabbage (my father had a heart disease), the most exciting thing for me was taking me to the cinema to watch movies. He came to Wuhu many times at that time. Firstly, my aunt died early and my uncle married another woman, so he regarded our home as his own. Secondly, my mother found a partner for him as a car driver in the city textile factory. The two had a very lively conversation. According to my mother, the woman was in poor health, so she chose my cousin who was as strong as an ox.

This book is a comprehensive and systematic study of the dissemination, translation, adaptation and performance of Shakespeare's plays in China in the field of domestic Shakespeare studies. The study closely follows an important case in the influence of Chinese and foreign literature in the 20th century: the deformation and variation of Shakespeare's drama. It examines the aesthetic characteristics of drama Shakespeare and opera Shakespeare on the Chinese stage from the perspective of text adaptation and stage combination, and examines the collision and integration of Shakespeare's drama and Chinese drama with Chinese culture under the different aesthetic principles of realism and freehand brushwork. This book studies the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of influence, deformation, and variation. It is different from pure text research. Through the Chinese adaptation of Shakespeare's plays, it clarifies the different performance forms and aesthetic presentation methods displayed in the blending and collision of Chinese and Western drama concepts. Through the study of dialogue dramas and opera adaptations of Shakespeare plays, the national characteristics of Chinese Shakespeare studies in the field of world Shakespeare studies are highlighted, and it is hoped that "stones from other mountains can become the jade of the East" to establish a Shakespeare research system with Chinese characteristics.