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The Eight Immortals (八仙 ba xian, in Chinese) are eight colourful Daoist personalities well-known in Chinese popular culture for over seven hundred years. 仙 (xian) in Chinese means ‘those who have achieved <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/longevity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">longevity</a>, immortality, and enlightenment’ and their artistic characterisation in extant dates back as early as the 3rd-century BCE, as ‘a male figure riding on a dragon’. Xian immortals can live on air and dew, fly without wings, and are resistant to the harmful effects of the elements. They possess many desirable traits in human society such as being free from anxiety, acting with spontaneity, and even forever having skin as smooth as that of a baby.
The Eight Immortals represent a wide spectrum of the society: male and female, rich and privileged and poor and downtrodden, old and young. They are <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/zhongli-quan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zhongli Quan</a> (钟离权, or 汉钟离), <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/lv-dongbin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lv Dongbin</a> (吕洞宾, or Lü Dongbin), <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/cao-guojiu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cao Guojiu</a> (曹国舅), Han Xiangzi (韩湘子), He Xiangu (何仙姑), Lan Caihe (蓝采和), Li Tieguai (李铁拐), Zhang Guolao (张果老). Each of the Eight Immortals typically has specific emblems as his or her distinctive attribute. Zhongli Quan holds a fan or <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/peach-fruit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peach</a>. Lv Dongbin has a sword. Cao Guojiu carries a clapper of several long, flat pieces of wood, or an official’s writing tablet in court, hu (笏). Han Xiangzi plays a bamboo <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/xiao-shis-playing-the-xiao-flute-attracting-phoenixes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flute</a>. He Xian’gu, the only female among the eight, carries a stem of <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/lotus-he-hua/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lotus flower</a> or a long-handled <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/bamboo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bamboo </a>colander. Lan Caihe has a basket of flowers. Li Tieguai leans on his iron crutch with a <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/pun-pictures/gourd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gourd </a>often in his hand. Zhang Guolao, the oldest among the eight, is usually identified with his membranophone fish drum (渔鼓 yugu). These emblems can be used independently in decoration as the ‘Covet Eight Immortals (暗八仙 an ba xian)’.

Eight Daoist Immortals

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When Prefect Mao Bao 毛宝 was stationed in the city of Wuchang 武昌, Hebei province, during the Jin dynasty (晋 265-420), there was a story about a white <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/tortoise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tortoise </a>who repays its benefactor by saving his life.
One day, one of Mao Bao’s soldiers went to market for groceries and returned to the camp with an extra white tortoise. The tortoise was about four or five inches long and still young and vulnerable. So the soldier took the responsibility to feed it. When the tortoise grew to be too large to be living in a tub, the soldier set it free to the Yangtze River. Later, the army that the soldier belonged to was defeated in a battle. In despair, the soldier put on his full armour and threw himself into the river with his cleaver in the hand. Curiously, he found himself landed on a rock unhurt. To his amazement, it was none other than the very white-backed tortoise he had raised! Now it turned out to be a giant fellow, 6 to 7 feet long. The tortoise carried the solider to the east shore and he survived the enemy’s slaughter.
image identification and literature research by Dr <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/dr-yibin-ni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yibin Ni</a> 
Another story relating to ‘Repaying Gratitude’:
<a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/the-dream-by-the-qiantang-river/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The dream by the Qiantang river</a>

White-backed tortoise repaying gratitude

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This scene was from a popular play ‘The Story of the White Hare’ (Bai Tu Ji 白兔记) and was much admired during the Ming dynasty.
Liu Zhiyuan 刘知远, the hero of the play set during the turbulent Five Dynasties (907–960), became an orphan when he was a teenager. His affluent neighbour looked after him and later married his daughter Li Sanniang 李三娘 to him. Unfortunately, his brother- and sister-in-law disliked him and maltreated the couple after their father passed away. The situation left Liu little choice but to seek his fortune in the army, leaving his pregnant wife behind. Sanniang suffered great misfortune in her husband’s absence, having to give birth to her son in the mill and name him Yaoqilang (咬脐郎 boy with the bitten belly button), because she severed the umbilical cord with her teeth. In order to escape her brother’s murder attempt, Sanniang had to send the boy to his father with the help of a friend. Fifteen years later, Liu, now a military governor, happened to be stationed near his home village. During a hunting trip, his son encountered the mother fetching water by a well while he was pursuing a white hare. The play naturally concluded with a happy ending!
This story scene on porcelain was first identified by Dr <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/dr-yibin-ni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yibin Ni</a>.  
Reference:
Jeffrey P. Stamen, Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection 文采卓然：潔蕊堂藏康熙盛世瓷, Bruges, 2017, cat. no. 9.

Story of the White Hare

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This is Scene One of Act Two of the Chinese classic popular drama <a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/romance-of-the-western-chamber/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Romance of the Western Chamber</a> (西厢记 Xixiang Ji), written by the Yuan playwright Wang Shifu (1250–1336).
Sun Feihu 孙飞虎, nicknamed ‘Sun the Flying Tiger’, is a local bandit who is stationed near a Buddhist monastery where Miss Cui Yingying 崔莺莺 is residing temporarily with her family. Sun Feihu hears about Yingying’s beauty and wants to abduct her to be his bride. He leads his army besieging the temple, and shouts that if Yingying is not sent out to him within three days, he will burn down the whole temple and kill all the monks inside. This leads to the next episode of Scholar Zhang asking monk <a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/huiming-delivering-a-letter-for-help/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huiming to deliver a letter for help</a> from General Du Que.
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story scene description by <a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/rachel-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Ma</a>
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Other episodes in the Romance of the Western Chamber:
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/scholar-zhang-renting-a-room-in-the-monastery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholar Zhang renting a room in the monastery</a> 僧房假寓
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/scholar-zhang-getting-drunk-due-to-madam-cuis-broken-promise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholar Zhang getting drunk due to Madam Cui’s broken promise</a> 张生醉酒 (崔母悔婚)
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/yingying-listening-to-the-qin-zither-playing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yingying listening to the qin zither playing</a> 莺莺听琴 (琴心写恨)

Sun Feihu besieging the monastery with a gang of bandits

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When Bing Ji (丙吉 d. 55 BCE) was a chancellor in the Han court, once he encountered the aftermath of a gang fight in the street. Bing Ji passed them without batting an eyelid. Further ahead, a buffalo passed and it looked out of breath. Bing Ji had its owner stopped and inquired about the buffalo’s heavy panting. Bing Ji’s aide thought Bing Ji paid no attention to the severe casualties but showed unwarranted interest in a panting buffalo. Bing Ji explained, ‘Curtailing gang fights are the police commissioner’s responsibility, not a chancellor’s. It is only spring now and the sun is quite mild but the buffalo was heavily panting. I wondered if there was something wrong with the climate that harmed the animal.’
Read more of Dr <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/dr-yibin-ni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yibin Ni</a>’s research work regarding this <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/blogs/commonly-misunderstood-images/a-statesmans-duty-to-his-country-a-chinese-story-depicted-on-traditional-artworks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">story scene here</a>. 
Other governors’ stories:
<a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/chen-ping-dividing-meat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chen Ping Dividing Meat 陈平分肉</a>
<a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/seasoning-a-stew-with-sour-prunes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seasoning a Stew with Sour Prunes 调梅和羹</a>
<a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/night-revel-of-the-emperor-yang-of-the-sui-dynasty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Night Revel of the Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty 隋炀帝夜游西苑</a>

Bing Ji inquiring about a panting buffalo

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Bo Yi (or Boyi, 伯夷) and Shu Qi (or Shuqi, 叔齐) were sons of the ruler of Guzhu (孤竹), a vassal state of the Shang dynasty (商朝, 16th-11th cent. BCE). As the king was getting old, he wanted Shu Qi, his youngest son, to inherit his throne. However, when the father died, Shu Qi asked Bo Yi to take over the throne because he thought Bo Yi was the eldest brother and rightly deserved the position. Bo Yi declined the offer, saying that their father’s wishes should not be altered and then he left the country. Shu Qi followed and left the country, too. With their absence, another brother of theirs was enthroned.
While wandering along the coast of the North Sea, the two brothers heard that another vassal of Shang, the Zhou state, was an ideal place for a peaceful and quiet retired life and they set off to go there. When they arrived, the old ruler, Count of the Zhou had just passed away and his son enthroned himself as King Wu (武王) and posthumously gave his father the title of King Wen (文王). King Wu believed that he was the next person to have the mandate from Heaven to rule the Shang territories, instead of just being the Count of Zhou under the Shang.
With the veteran strategist the Grand Duke <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/jiang-ziya-was-discovered-angling-by-baron-of-zhou-by-the-wei-river/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jiang Ziya</a> (姜子牙, or Jiang Taigong 姜太公), King Wu was launching a military campaign to overthrow the Shang house, when the two brothers appeared in the middle of the road. They tried to stop King Wu’s army and admonished him, ‘Can it be called observing filial piety when one launches a military campaign before one has properly buried one’s diseased father? Can it be called a gentleman’s proper behaviour when a subject is to assassinate his lord?’ King Wu’s entourage then tried to kill the two but Grand Duke Jiang stopped them, saying, ‘They are righteous people.’ Then Mr Jiang helped the two move out of the way and the army marched on.
The story scene depicted on the famille verte Kangxi vase in the previous Jie Rui Tang Collection was first unveiled by Dr <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/dr-yibin-ni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yibin Ni</a>. He has since published two more articles discussing the <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/blogs/interesting-findings/bo-yi-and-shu-qi-stopping-the-zhou-army-analysis-of-traditional-chinese-figures-and-story-scenes-in-assisting-dating-of-antiques/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">figural composition</a> in such theme and <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/blogs/culture-and-customs/has-jiang-ziyas-mount-got-anything-to-do-with-the-pere-davids-deer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jiang Ziya’s riding</a> painted on the antique porcelain vases.
References:
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<li>倪亦斌：《武王子牙举旗伐商 伯夷叔齐叩马阻兵》，《读者欣赏》，兰州：读者出版传媒股份有限公司，2016-07，60-65 页</li>
<li>Jeffrey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni (2017), A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection 文采卓然：潔蕊堂藏康熙盛世瓷, Jieruitang Publishing, Bruges, pp. 22-25.</li>
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Bo Yi and Shu Qi Trying to Stop the Mighty Zhou Army

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Cao Guojiu (曹国舅) is one of the later comers among the legendary <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/eight-daoist-immortals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eight Daoist Immortals</a> and has the fewest colourful stories attached to him. During the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), a Daoist priest named Miao Shanshi (苗善時 fl. 1324) compiled a collection of anecdotes about <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/lv-dongbin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lv Dongbin</a> (吕洞宾, or Lü Dongbin) to promote his inner alchemical (内丹) teachings. The book is entitled the Chronicle of the Divine Transformations and Wondrous Powers of the Imperial Lord of Pure Yang (纯阳帝君神化妙通纪 Chunyang Dijun Shenhua Miaotongji). In Volume Three of the book, there is the story of ‘the religious conversion of Cao Guojiu (度曹国舅第十七化)’:
Cao was said to have been the son of a cabinet minister and an ‘Imperial Brother-in-Law (国舅)’ of Emperor Renzong (仁宗 1010–1063) of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). Even though he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he loved studying classics and enjoyed a simple life. The emperor treasured his friendship and knowledge and often had audience with him. One day, Cao decided to leave the capital and his home to travel around the world at his own free will. The emperor gave Cao a gold token to protect himself. The token bore the words: ‘Wherever the imperial brother-in-law goes, the emperor were there, too’. Cao started travelling, begging alms along the way. When he was crossing the Yellow River on a ferry, the boatman asked him to pay the fare. Cao said that he was a travelling Daoist priest and did not have any money. Then the boatman threatened to throw him out of the boat so he had to produce the gold token, the only valuable thing on him. When the passengers on the boat saw the words inscribed on the token, they all exclaimed ‘Your Majesty!’ in awe. At this moment, a Daoist priest in blue clothes on the boat said to Cao, ‘Now that you’re a Daoist priest, how could you throw your weight around to scare people?!’ Cao bowed to him humbly, saying ‘I don’t dare to, Sir’. He then threw the gold token into the river. The blue-attired Daoist asked Cao to return to the shore and, after they walked miles and settled down under a large tree, he asked Cao ‘Do you know Lv Dongbin?’ Cao replied, ‘As a mundane being, how could I know such a famous immortal?’ The blue-attired Daoist said ‘I am he. I am here to convert you.’ And the rest is history.
Ever since the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), Cao Guojiu has been prototypically depicted as a middle-aged mandarin dressed in official robes with a winged hat and a pair of black boots. His established emblem is a set of clappers, which consists of two or more elongated bamboo or wooden pieces. This emblem is also used in the decorative motif of the Covet Eight Immortals (暗八仙 an ba xian). Since the clappers are used as accompanying instruments on stage, Cao has long been regarded as the patron deity of actors.
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image identification and literature research by Dr <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/dr-yibin-ni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yibin Ni</a>

Cao Guojiu

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This is Scene Four of Act Four of <a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/romance-of-the-western-chamber/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Romance of the Western Chamber</a> (Xixiang Ji 西厢记), a famous Chinese drama written by playwright Wang Shifu 王实甫 (1250–1336) in Yuan dynasty.
After parting with his lover Cui Yingying 崔莺莺 in Pudong district, Zhang Junrui (张君瑞, also called Scholar Zhang 张生) travels about twenty li toward the capital before stopping to rest at Caoqiao Inn (草桥店). Exhausted, he has no appetite for food and falls asleep.
Deeply troubled by the recent separation from Yingying, Scholar Zhang dreams of her immediately. In the dream, she braves the long and treacherous journey, crossing a river and a bridge, and eventually arrives at Caoqiao Inn to meet him. Scholar Zhang welcomes her, and the two pour out their feelings to each other.
As they speak, a bandit bursts forth from the shadows, torch in hand, demanding the woman who has just crossed the river. Scholar Zhang, unflinching in the face of danger, rebukes the intruder with fierce words. Yet the bandit still seizes Yingying and carries her away.
Startled awake from this harrowing dream, Scholar Zhang pushes open the door. Outside, a shroud of mist fills the air, frost glitters across the ground, the morning stars faintly flicker, and a waning crescent moon lingers in the sky. With a heavy heart, he sighs, ‘A dream of love, and yet it fades unfulfilled.’ 
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Other episodes in the Romance of the Western Chamber:
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/consummation-of-love-from-western-chamber/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Consummation of love from Western Chamber</a> 月下佳期
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/scholar-zhang-getting-drunk-due-to-madam-cuis-broken-promise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholar Zhang getting drunk due to madam Cui’s broken promise</a> 张生醉酒 (崔母悔婚)
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/yingying-listening-to-the-qin-zither-playing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yingying Listening to the Qin Zither Playing</a> 莺莺听琴 (琴心写恨)
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/yingying-receiving-good-news-delivered-by-the-pageboy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yingying receiving good news delivered by the pageboy</a> 泥金报捷

Scholar Zhang’s startled dream at Caoqiao Inn

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The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival falls on the night of full moon in the eighth lunar month. Chang’e, the Moon Goddess, is usually associated with this family-union occasion, together with the festival food – the moon cake (月饼). A legend recorded in an ancient Chinese book, The Huainanzi (淮南子 The Discourses of the Huainan Masters), compiled around 139 BCE, says that a beautiful girl called Chang’e (嫦娥) has been living on the moon for thousands of years. Chang’e’s husband was the legendary archer, Hou Yi (or Houyi 后羿), and he was given the elixir of immortality by the <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/blogs/interesting-findings/birthday-party-of-the-queen-mother-of-the-west/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queen Mother of the West</a> (西王母 Xiwangmu) for his merits. Out of boredom and curiosity, Chang’e tasted the elixir. As a result, she turned into an immortal. Her body became so light that she ascended to heaven, ending up in the nearest planet, the moon. On the moon, there was a huge <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/osmanthus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">osmanthus </a>tree, a toad, and a hare grinding the tree bark with a pestle in a mortar to prepare some magic cure. The adorable hare became Chang’e’s loyal companion. Chang’e also gradually evolved into the role of the <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/blogs/culture-and-customs/the-legend-of-chang-e-the-moon-goddess-and-her-bestowing-osmanthus-blossom-to-scholars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">osmanthus sprig giver</a> from the Moon Palace.
In one of the earliest story scenes of Chang’e’s extraordinary feat, she has a human body and a <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/dragon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dragon</a>’s rear end. The moon is marked by the toad in the middle. Both Chang’e and the moon are floating among vapour clouds and ball-like stars and planets. This stone carving was excavated from a Han-dynasty (202 BCE &#8211; 220 CE) tomb in the outskirts of Nanyang city, Henan province in 1964.
On a Tang-dynasty (618-907) bronze mirror in the collection of the <a href="https://www.npm.gov.tw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Palace Museum</a>, Taipei, Chang’e, her entourage, and specific environment attributes are fully displayed. Chang’e appears as a beautiful fairy in a silk gown with sashes flying around her body. The hare has his set of a pestle and a mortar beside him. On the right, there is the huge osmanthus tree, under which is the toad, symbolising the moon, the embodiment of the essence of the yin energy (阴精). The <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/tortoise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tortoise </a>is a <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/longevity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">longevity </a>symbol in traditional China because they were believed to be able to live for a thousand years by the ancients. It was added to the scene as the knob of the mirror, since scenes involving immortals are often used as longevity symbols and thus birthday presents for elders.
During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Chang’e was still used to adorn daily utensils and display ornaments to imbue the environment with auspicious aura. The cute hare adds femininity to the design and therefore was popular in women’s inner chambers.
literature research by Dr <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/dr-yibin-ni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yibin Ni</a>
Related symbolic motif:
<a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/motifs-symbols/plucking-a-sprig-of-osmanthus-blossom-from-the-moon-palace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Plucking a Sprig of Osmanthus Blossom from the Moon Palace 蟾宫折桂</a>

Chang’e the Moon Goddess

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This is from Scene Three of Act One of the Chinese classic popular drama <a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/romance-of-the-western-chamber/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Romance of the Western Chamber</a> (西厢记 Xixiang Ji), written by the Yuan playwright Wang Shifu (1250–1336).
Zhang Junrui (张君瑞, also called Scholar Zhang 张生) was immediately struck by lovesickness after seeing Miss Cui Yingying at the first sight. He decided to rent a room at the Monastery of Universal Salvation 普救寺 in order to wait for an opportunity to get close to his goddess. Scholar Zhang inquired from a monk that Yingying would go to the garden to burn incense every night, so he hid behind the rockery in the garden and waited.
When Yingying came out of the corner door, Scholar Zhang saw that her fair face under the moon was even more beautiful than when he first saw her. He couldn’t help feeling love in his heart, so he composed a poem and read loudly:
The moonlight melts into the night, 
Silent in the Spring, flowers in the shade. 
Under the moon so bright, 
Where is the beautiful maid?
（月色溶溶夜，花阴寂寂春；如何临皓魄，不见月中人。）
Yingying heard it and was touched by this refreshing poem. She composed another one to rhyme with his:
The orchid boudoir has been long lonely, 
spending youth in vain. 
I reckon that the poem chanter 
should pity the sighing maid. 
(兰闺久寂寞，无事度芳春；料得行吟者，应怜长叹人。)
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Scholar Zhang and Yingying deepened their understanding through exchanging verses that night, and developed a sense of sympathy for each other, which laid their emotional foundation for having similar interests.
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story scene description by <a data-internal-link="true" href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/about-us/rachel-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Ma</a>
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Other episodes in the Romance of the Western Chamber:
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/scholar-zhang-embarking-on-his-journey-to-sit-for-civil-service-examinations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholar Zhang embarking on his journey to sit for civil-service examinations</a> 张生赶考
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/scholar-zhang-renting-a-room-in-the-monastery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholar Zhang renting a room in the monastery</a> 僧房假寓 (禅关假馆)
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/repudiation-of-the-billet-doux/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Repudiation of the Billet-Doux</a> 张生跳墙 (乘夜踰垣)
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/consummation-of-love-from-western-chamber/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Consummation of love from Western Chamber</a> 月下佳期
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/scholar-zhang-getting-drunk-due-to-madame-cuis-broken-promise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholar Zhang getting drunk due to Madame Cui’s broken promise</a> 张生醉酒 (崔母悔婚)
<a href="https://tutuhaoyi.com/figures-stories/yingying-listening-to-the-qin-zither-playing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yingying listening to the qin zither playing</a> 莺莺听琴
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