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In which dynasty does the story told in The Peach Blossom Fan take place? ()

The Peach Blossom Fan tells a story that takes place during the Southern Ming Dynasty.

"Peach Blossom Fan" is a historical drama that shows the pain of a fallen country. The author organically combines the sadness and joy of Hou Fangwei and Li Xiangjun, a beautiful girl from Qinhuai, with the rise and fall of the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and creates a series of vivid characters. The tragic ending breaks through the traditional pattern of the reunion of a talented man and a beautiful woman, and the feelings of men and women and the sense of the rise and fall of the world have been sublimated by philosophical reasoning.

The Peach Blossom Fan is a famous legendary play of the Qing Dynasty in China, written by Kong Shangren, who completed it after more than ten years of three drafts. The play shows the struggle between the Qing dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, represented by the literati Hou Fangwei, Wu Jiwei and Chen Dingsheng of the Restoration Society, and the power traitors represented by Ruan Dacheng and Ma Shiying, and exposes the corruption of the politics of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the reasons for its demise, reflecting the social outlook of the time.

That is, the author himself said: borrowing the feelings of separation, write the feeling of the rise and fall, the fact that people, with evidence. Through the love story of Hou Fangwei and Li Xiangjun, the author expresses the history of the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and summarizes the historical experience of the Ming Dynasty's 300 years of demise, which expresses the rich and complex social and historical content.

Background

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, many of the Ming Dynasty's survivors gathered in Kung Ching from time to time to express the grief of their country's demise and the indignation of their lives. Kong Shangren's father, Kong Zhenchuan was one of them. Kong Zhenxing heavy temperament burning character, worry about the world's heart, the behavior of the recluse, all of them have an important influence on the Kong Shangren.

Jia Eider West is another person who had a great influence on Kong Shangren. Jia Teixi was a friend of Kong Zhenbao, an upright Ming Dynasty veteran. Kong Shangren was the guest of honor at his childhood, and was treated favorably by Jia Shanshi. Jia Teixi's ideas also had an important influence on Kong Shangren. For example, in the Peach Blossom Fan, Liu Jingting said that the Analects of Confucius was obtained from Jia Teixi.