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spoiler The performance tradition has focused on the love story between Du Liniang ???????????????and Liu Mengmei ???????????????, though in its original text (standard translation: Cyril Birch), it has strong elements of dramatic warfare (specifically set in the Song defense against the Jin Dynasty). Du Liniang is the daughter of an important official. Her maid encourages her to abandon her dull studies and take a walk in the garden, where she falls asleep. She dreams of her lover Liu Mengmei, whom in real life she has never met, before being awoken by falling petals. Unable to recover the enchantment of her dream, she wastes away and dies. In hell, the underworld judge determines that her marriage with Liu Mengmei is predestined, and that she cannot be retained. Instead, she is sent to haunt him, who now inhabits the garden where they had their dream. Recognising the girl he met in his dreams, he agrees to Burial#Exhumation|exhume her. Du Liniang asks him to go to tell her father the news of her resurrection, but he treats Liu Mengmei as a grave robber and impostor. In the end, Liu Mengmei is only saved from a tortuous death by the announcement of the results of the imperial exams. He has topped the list; the Chinese Emperor|emperor pardons all. Conventional in some ways, particularly the deus ex machina ending, The Peony Pavilion is distinguished by its beautiful and largely untranslateable poetry. "Travelling in the Garden"(?????????, "The Dream Interrupted" ????????????and "Searching for the Dream" ????????????are considered masterpieces of music and craft. Mei Lanfang (sometimes paired with Yu Zhenfei ????????? as Liu Mengmei) was famous for his sensitive portrayal of Du Liniang. The most famous actress of recent years is likely Jiang Jiqing's ????????? traditional approach out of Nanjing's Jiangsu Province Kun Opera. In Shanghai, Jennifer Hua Wenyi ????????? was very popular in the role, and has played the role abroad several times. Bai Xianyong ???????????????has used "The Peony Pavilion" as inspiration for a short story and a television script, besides also been associated with a young actors' version (????????????out of Suzhou, which toured China and abroad. Recently, "The Peony Pavilion" has attracted the attention of Peter Sellars and Chen Shizheng, who both directed productions which played primarily abroad, often winning critical success but offending Chinese traditionalists. In 2001, a Hong Kong movie :zh:????????????|????????????, starring Rie Miyazawa and Joey Wong, was called "The Peony Pavilion" in English. Though only indirectly related in terms of plot, it used the music extensively. A Taiwanese movie ????????????????????? directed by Chen Guofu, with cinematography by Christopher Doyle and starring Luo Ruoying shared the same English title. Category:Chinese-language operas de:Der P??onien-Pavillon zh:????????? This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Peony Pavilion".
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