Illustrated Stories of the Most Alluring Beauties: Colorful Illustrated Text

Author: Hua Hua
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Exquisite Beauty, Entering the Scroll of Beauties; Deep Love and Loyalty, Hard to Reach the Love of Swans; Summer Days and Spring Nights in the Classical World of Emotions! Twelve Exquisite Beauties, Each Stunning; The Scroll of Beauty and Romance, Each Bringing Brilliance! This book takes the love stories of 12 courtesans as its foundation, using prose to express nostalgia for them and hope for their rebirth in reality. Supported by various textual and visual materials about them, it provides a comprehensive and profound understanding of them. The author has indeed prepared a feast for the eyes for the readers. They were women living in ancient China under a male-dominated society, beautiful, noble, talented, and extraordinary. Due to their special status, they possessed more freedom than ordinary women, able to love what they loved, think what they thought, and hate what they hated. They could also look down upon money and consider precious things as dung. However, precisely because of this special status, they often could not attain the happiness and love of ordinary people. Their endings were rarely happy. Exquisite Beauty, Entering the Scroll of Beauties Deep Love and Loyalty, Hard to Reach the Love of Swans Classical World of Emotions, Summer Days and Spring Nights. Courtesans have been a topic of discussion throughout history. Their words and deeds, as well as their romantic love stories, are the true realms many yearn for. This book takes the love stories of 12 courtesans as its foundation, using prose to express nostalgia for them and hope for their rebirth in reality. Supported by various textual and visual materials about them, it provides a comprehensive and profound understanding of them. The author has indeed prepared a feast for the eyes for the readers.