《 Táohuāshàn 》 jiè Lǐ Xiāngjūn hé Hóu Fāngyù de àiqíng, xiěchū le Míngcháo mièwáng de lìshǐ.
Through the love of Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu, The Peach Blossom Fan tells of the Ming dynasty's fall.
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culture
The fan is the love token 侯方域 gives 李香君. When she strikes her head to refuse marriage to another man, her blood spatters it, and a friend paints the drops into peach blossoms.
history
孔尚任, a descendant of Confucius, finished it in 1699 after more than ten years of work. With 洪昇's 长生殿 it is one of the two great plays of the early Qing.
