In China the storytellers wandered from place to place and these storytellers earned money by telling tales to people.
The tales or stories that got circulated in this way later got compiled together into "novels" of great length.
Novel developed as a proper literary form in China at a much later period. The Chinese Love Novels are unique in their own way.
The Chinese novel, the Peach Blossom Fan, has been written by Shangren Kong. This novel tells the story of Hou Chaozong, who is a man of substance. Hou Chaozong falls in love with a prostitute named Li Xiangjun. Hou Chaozong and Li Xiangjun get married. A corrupt official, traps Hou Chaozong. Hou Chaozong falls in the trap that has been set by the official and as a result finds himself in prison.
The official puts pressure on Li Xiangjun to remarry, but she refuses as she does not want to decive Hou Chaozong or leave Hou Chaozong alone in his troubled times. Read this novel to know about the rest of the story. |
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