Zhè bù xì tiàochū le cáizǐ-jiārén de lǎo tàolù, xiě de shì pǔtōngrén de hūnyīn.
This play breaks away from the old scholar-and-beauty formula and is about the marriages of ordinary people.
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The plot was so fixed (a poor scholar meets a minister's daughter, love, obstacles, he comes first in the imperial exam, a wedding) that in 《红楼梦》 Grandmother Jia mocks such stories for all being the same. 《西厢记》 is the classic of the genre.
