Feng Menglong's Collection of Folk Songs - Three Annotations (Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: (Ming) Feng Menglong compiled, Liu Ruiming annotated
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Publishing Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Love folk songs from the Ming Dynasty, written with realism, vividness, and playful humor. They have gained widespread popularity, revealing what is common in everyone's heart while capturing what is unique in everyone's writing. This book annotates the dialectal and colloquial terms in Feng Menglong's three collections of folk songs, cites comparable folk songs for comparative appreciation, and offers insightful interpretations of the love culture and sexual language from multiple perspectives, including popular literature, sexual customs, and linguistics.