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Author: Tang Xianzu
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book is an English translation of The Dream of Hongjun Mountain. Professor Wang Rongpei has translated numerous works, particularly excelling in the English translation of classical literature, including Zhuangzi and The Peony Pavilion from the "Greater China Treasury." The translator has a profound understanding of the original work, and the translation strives to capture both the spirit and form of the original. The Dream of Hongjun Mountain is one of the "Four Dreams of Linchuan" by Tang Xianzu, a distinguished Ming Dynasty playwright of the 16th century, and is based on the legend The Dream of the Pillow by Shen Ji ji, a Tang Dynasty writer. The impoverished scholar Lu Sheng encounters the immortal Lü Dongbin, who comes to the world to liberate ordinary souls, in a small inn near the Zhaozhou Bridge in Handan. Lu Sheng complains about his misfortunes, and Lü Xian gives him a magnetic pillow to sleep on. In his dream, Lu Sheng experiences a series of political storms and over fifty years of human struggles, only to wake up and find that the millet porridge cooked for them by the innkeeper has not yet been ready. Through Lu Sheng's fate, the work profoundly exposes the ugly reality of the feudal society's officialdom.