Chinese Kunqu Opera: Classic Show for Cultural EliteⅥ

Liu Mengmei, a poor intellectual, incidentally met a beauty under a plum tree of a garden. The beauty said she had a born mission to love him, and since then, Liu Mengmei began to miss this beauty very much. This beauty was the daughter of Du Bao, the Nanan Governor, and she named Du Liniang was quite talented and pretty. He followed Chen Zuiniang to reading. She was saddened by the description of Guan Ju(关雎), the first poem of Book of Songs(诗经) and had a dream after visiting the back-garden that she met a handsome intellectual called Liu Mengmei holding a weeping willow twig said love to her, and they fell in love. When waked up but could not find the man, she got ill, and before her death, he requested to be buried under the plum tree of garden, and ordered her close servant called Chun Xiang to hide his portrait at the bottom of Taihu Lake. But Du Liniang's father was promoted to be the governor of Huaiyang and he entrusted Miss Du's teacher, Chen Zuiniang, to bury her and built a Nunnery named Mei Hua An.