Wu Zixu (2CD)

Author: Hongda Yitai Culture Development Co., Ltd.
Publisher: Beijing Electronic Publishing House
Publication Date: 1901-01-01
Features: A 50-episode long narrative storytelling performance by the renowned storytelling artist Lian Liru. Lian Liru is a famous storytelling artist, a first-class performer, and the vice president of the China Coal Mine Literature and Art Association. She enjoys special government subsidies. Daughter of the renowned storytelling artist Lian Kuoru and the sole inheritor of the Lian-style storytelling tradition. The long narrative storytelling Wu Zixu tells the story of Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, Chu was known as a powerful state. The ruler of Chu, King Ping, trusted treacherous ministers and indulged in women. He took his son-in-law as his concubine and brutally killed the loyal minister Taishi Wu Sha and his eldest son Wu Shang. Wu Sha's second son, Wu Zixu, was both scholarly and martial, wise and brave. To avenge his father and brother, he fled from Chu. Unable to find refuge in the states of Song and Zheng, he eventually arrived in Wu. There, he befriended the filial son Zuan Zhu and the prince Ji Guang, later becoming his protector. Zuan Zhu assassinated the Wu King Ji Liao, and Ji Guang ascended the throne as King He Lian. King He Lian was a wise ruler who valued talent and nurtured scholars, strengthening the state and defeating Chu to become the of the vassal states. He helped Wu Zixu avenge his father and brother by entering Ying and executing the corpse of the Chu king.