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 warmed the sun and mountains, nourishing your gentle heart; the charm of love has surpassed 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 walking body longs to encounter a romantic rendezvous, and every lonely soul yearns to bask in the myriad affections of true love. Romance, literature, and women have been intertwined for millennia. It is the literati who discovered and enriched 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," 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 E," the literati used their brilliant pens to portray the myriad charms, countless postures, and countless lives of women. Meanwhile, women provided the literati with the impulse of the soul, 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 in their lives. From the moment literati were born, they have been holding the delicate hands of women, singing and sighing, entwined together from ancient times to the present. What remains behind them are countless romantic stories that stir the heart and transport the soul.