Dù Shíniáng de gùshi chūzì 《 Jǐngshì tōngyán 》, hòulái bèi gǎibiān chéng le hěnduō xìqǔ.
The story of Du Shiniang comes from Stories to Caution the World and was later turned into many operas.
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history
Published in 1624, it is the second of 冯梦龙's three collections, the 三言. Many of its 40 stories rework tales that storytellers of the Song and Yuan had told in the marketplace.
culture
It has the earliest full version of the legend of Lady White, the white snake who marries a man and ends up imprisoned under Leifeng Pagoda, and the tale of the courtesan 杜十娘, who throws her box of treasures into the river when her lover sells her.
