Butterfly Lovers
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The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend centered around the tragic romance between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, whose names form the Chinese title of the story. The title is often abbreviated as Lia
Monument to Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai near the Tomba di Giulietta in Verona, Italy
Stage play adaptation of Butterfly Lovers by Symphony Theatre, starring Jessie Chung and Paul Lee
Lady Meng Jiang
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Lady Meng Jiang or Meng Jiang Nü is a Chinese tale with many variations. Later versions of the tale are usually set in the Qin dynasty; in those tales, Lady Meng Jiang's newly married husband was pres
Butterfly Lovers
…selected as one of China's Four Great Folktales by the "Folklore Movement" in the 1920s—the others being the Legend of the White Snake (Baishezhuan), Lady Meng Jiang, and The Cowherd and the Weaving Maid (Niulang Zhinü). Six cities in China collaborated in 2004 on a formal application for the Proclamation of…
Lady Meng Jiang weeps at the Great Wall (Southern Song illustration for Biographies of Exemplary Women)
Lady Meng Bianwen Dunhuang Manuscript
Illustration from Meng Cheng's Journey to the Great Wall (1878), translation by George Carter Stent
1926 Tianyi film Lady Meng Jiang, starring Hu Die