Dòu É shì Yuándài jùzuòjiā Guān Hànqīng bǐxià de rénwù.
Dou E is a character created by the Yuan playwright Guan Hanqing.
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Before she is beheaded for a murder she did not commit, she swears three oaths: her blood will fly up onto a white banner, snow will fall in the sixth month, and the district will suffer three years of drought. All three come true. 比窦娥还冤 'more wronged than Dou E' is said, often jokingly, of any unfair blame.
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A folk story also makes her the inventor of the Sichuan dish 蚂蚁上树: with only a little minced pork to cook for her sick mother-in-law, she scattered it over glass noodles.
