What is "The Peony Pavilion" about?

The heroine Du Liniang in "The Peony Pavilion" is naturally beautiful and sentimental.

When she reached her cardamom years, it was the Huaichun season when love first blossomed, but she was imprisoned by the feudal ethics at home and could not gain freedom and love.

Suddenly one day, her father Du Bao, who was a prefect, hired an old scholar, Chen Zuiliang, to teach her. This pedantic old man explained the "Guan Guan Jujiu" in "The Book of Songs" for the first time, which immediately changed Du Liniang's heart.

The passion was touched.

A few days later.

Du Liniang returned from a spring outing in the back garden and fell asleep on the bed after being tired.

After a while, she met a scholar who brought a willow branch and asked her to write a poem. Then he took her to the Peony Pavilion and made her happy.

When she woke up, she realized it was Nan Ke Yimeng.

After that, she went to the Peony Pavilion to pursue her dream, but she didn't see the scholar, and she felt very sad.

Gradually, this longing for love became a heart problem, and finally Yao Shi Wuzhi died.

At this time, his father was promoted to be the envoy of Huaiyang. Before leaving, he buried his daughter under the plum tree in the back garden, built a "Plum Blossom Temple" and asked an old Taoist nun to guard her.

After Du Liniang's death, her wandering soul came to the underworld. The judge asked her why she died, and after finding out that her marriage to Liu Mengmei, the new top scholar in the science, was found in the marriage book, he allowed her to return to the world.

At this time, scholar Liu Mengmei went to Beijing to take the exam. On the way, he caught wind and cold and became ill and stayed in Meihua Nunnery.

After recovering from the illness, he met the wandering ghost of Du Liniang in the nunnery. The two fell in love with each other and lived a loving life as husband and wife.

Soon, the old Taoist nun discovered this, and Liu Mengmei broke up their personal affair with her, and secretly negotiated with her to have someone dig up Du Liniang's grave.

The two immediately became a real couple and came to Kyoto together, where Liu Mengmei took the Jinshi examination.

After the exam, Liu Mengmei came to Huaiyang. When she found the Du Mansion, she was interrogated by Governor Du. Liu Mengmei claimed to be the son-in-law of the Du family. Governor Du was furious and thought that the Confucian scholar was talking in his sleep because his daughter died three years ago. How could she do it now?

He was able to come back to life, and he heard that his daughter Du Liniang's tomb was discovered by this Confucian scholar, so he was sentenced to death.

While the interrogation was in progress, the imperial court sent someone to accompany Liu Mengmei's family members to the Du Mansion to inform them that Liu Mengmei had won the first prize.

Liu Mengmei was able to escape, but Governor Du still did not believe that his daughter would be resurrected, and suspected that the number one scholar was also a goblin, so he wrote a memorial for the emperor to judge. The emperor told Du Liniang to come to the court and verify in front of the "demon mirror" that it was indeed true.

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So he ordered the father and son to recognize each other and get married.

A story about a marriage that comes from life to death, from death to resurrection, ends with a happy ending.

"The Peony Pavilion" (referred to as "The Peony Pavilion", also known as "The Dream of Resurrection" or "The Dream of the Peony Pavilion") is a legend (script) created by the playwright Tang Xianzu of the Ming Dynasty. It was published in the 45th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1617).

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Extended information: In "Resurrection of the Peony Pavilion", Du Liniang, the daughter of a prefect who is depressed both physically and mentally, falls asleep in a garden and meets Liu Mengmei, an elegant scholar, and they fall in love with each other.

After waking up from the dream, Du Liniang was melancholy and uneasy. She "didn't know the origin of love" and became lovesick. Her illness was difficult to recover and she eventually died.

Three years later, the person in Du Liniang's dream, Liu Mengmei, came across a self-painted portrait of a beautiful woman. Liniang also returned to the world as a wandering soul, looking for the marriage in her dream.

With the help of others, Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei finally broke through the obstacles in love, came back from the dead, and finally got married.

In this legendary work, Tang Xianzu depicts the touching life-and-death love between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei. This passionate interpretation of love all represents Tang Xianzu's philosophical thinking on life and love and his experience of the world.

The departed Du Liniang became the embodiment of the ideal of love in Tang Xianzu's works.