Feng Yue - What is the Meaning of Love in This World

Author: Chu Ren
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The lingering warmth of romance has passed through mountains and rivers, nourishing your gentle heart; the charm of love has transcended the vicissitudes of time, soothing your passionate soul. What is love in this world that makes people willing to give their lives for it? Every wandering body longs for a romantic encounter, and every lonely soul yearns for the thousandfold love of true affection. Romance, poetry, and beauty have been intertwined with the lives of women for millennia. It was the literati who discovered and enriched the essence of women, using their words to depict and preserve their beauty. From Song Yu's "Ode to the Divine Lady," Cai Yong's "Ode to the Green Dress," Cao Zhi's "Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River," Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," Wang Shifu's "Romance of the West Chamber," to Kong Shangren's "The Peach Blossom Fan" and Chen Yinque's "Biography of Liu Shi," the literati used their brilliant pens to portray the myriad moods, countless postures, and hundred flavors of women's lives. In return, women provided the literati with the impulse of the heart, the passion of life, and the inspiration for creation. They are the eternal themes that appear in the literati's works, as well as indispensable and irreplaceable elements of their lives. Since the birth of the literati, they have been holding the delicate hands of women, singing in unison and lingering in love, walking through the ages from afar. What remains behind them are countless stories of romance that stir the heart and transport the soul.