Water flows and flowers fall Retelling Pan Jinlian: Retelling Pan Jinlian

Author: Zhang Yu
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: With age, especially through the hardships I've experienced in life, many things have gradually become clearer. I've come to understand that life is, in fact, quite. For most people, almost none can truly control their own fate. What they can design is merely some details of life, while the direction of their destiny remains largely unforeseeable. Perhaps it is precisely for this reason that life can be full of wonderful twists and turns. You might say Pan Jinlian is bad, not living well with Wu Dalang, but instead choosing to be with Ximen Qing. But why was Pan Jinlian, such a beautiful woman, married to the ugly man Wu Dalang? At the time, I thought, Pan Jinlian must have been forced into marrying Wu Dalang by the adults—she definitely didn't do it of her own free will. I imagined if you adults had let Pan Jinlian marry Wu Song, she would never have gone with Ximen Qing again. He was a young man. I once felt indignant for Pan Jinlian's fate. Sometimes I'd close the book and ponder for a long time, thinking if I had the say, I would definitely marry Pan Jinlian to Wu Song. One beautiful and romantic, the other literary and martial—what a wonderful couple they would have been.