Story summary

Du Liniang was deeply bound by feudal ethics. One day, carrying her parents and school teacher, she and her maid Chunxiang went to the back garden for a spring outing. Love, after you are tired of traveling, go back to your room to rest. In the dream, I met the scholar Liu Mengmei in the garden, and many flower gods came to act as matchmakers for them.

Du Liniang’s mother came to the bed and woke her daughter up. The mother saw that her daughter was in a trance and told her not to go to the back garden in the future. Although Du Liniang agreed, she was still pursuing her dream and soon became depressed and ill.

Excerpts from the lyrics

If you don’t watch out for the noise of the sunken fish and the falling of the wild geese, you will be afraid of the shy flowers and the closed moon, and the flowers will tremble in sorrow. There are scattered gold powder in the gallery, and the moss in the pond is green. I am afraid of the mud when stepping on the grass and newly embroidered socks. I cherish the flowers and hurt the little golden bell. How can you know how beautiful spring is without going to a garden? ——Zui Fu Gui

It turns out that the colorful flowers are blooming everywhere, but like this, they are all abandoned by the ruined wells. In a good time, the beautiful scenery is in the sky. Whose home is home to enjoy the pleasure? - Zao Luo Pao

I am sleepy in the spring heart. I am tired of traveling and admiring, and I don't want to sleep with incense and embroidered quilts. Spring is scary! If you are in the mood, the dream will not be far away. ——Epilogue

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Creative background

In the twenty-eighth year of Wanli, Tang Xianzu resigned from office and returned to his hometown in the countryside of Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province. He is 49 years old this year. He heard and witnessed the love encounters of some young men and women in his life, and these experiences aroused his creative feelings. Not long after returning to his hometown, he began writing "Resurrection of the Peony Pavilion". "The Return of the Peony Pavilion" is adapted from the Ming Dynasty novel "The Return of Du Liniang".