Heroine: Li.

Peach Blossom Fan is a historical tragedy with the rise and fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty as the main line, with a total of 40 works. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hou Fangyu, a scholar studying in Germany, came to Nanjing after having obtained an examination in Jiangnan. He didn't come back, lived by Mochow Lake and attended the reunion against Yan Party. Introduced by the painter Yang Longyou, I met Li, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai. On the day of their engagement, Fan wrote a poem as a token. Ruan Dacheng, a scholar of Yan Party, immediately bought a set of toiletries with great money, and asked Yang Longyou, a sworn brother, to give it to him, so as to win over the scholars of Fu Society. Refused to accept Ruan's gift. Ruan was jealous. When Zuo Liangyu sent troops to Nanjing, he lied that he was in Nanjing. In order to avoid harm, Yu Fang fled Nanjing alone and went to Yangzhou secretariat Shi Kefa as a military adviser. After Chongzhen hanged himself in Beijing, treacherous court official Ma Shiying met with Axe King in Beijing and established Nanming Palace. The treacherous court official of the bad king ignored the state affairs, wanted to sing and dance, and persecuted the literati of Fushe. Ma, Ruan and others forced them to marry Fu Tianyang, a new Cao, but they would rather die than follow, hitting their heads on the ground and soiling the poem fans given in those years. Yang Longyou picked flower juice and dyed it into a peach blossom picture, which is called a peach blossom fan. Ma and Ruan bought wine at the banquet pavilion to enjoy the snow, and took the opportunity to scold the banquet to vent their hatred. After returning to Nanjing, he was captured and imprisoned by Ruan. The Qing soldiers went south, and the treacherous court official fled. When Yu Fang took refuge in Qixia Mountain after he was released from prison, he met Xiang Jun in Baiyun Temple. At the instigation of Zhang Daoshi, both of them became monks.

Centered on the love story with Li, the play shows the decadent and turbulent social reality in the late Ming Dynasty, exposes the fatuity and corruption of the small court in Nanming, and enthusiastically praises the noble integrity and patriotic feelings of daring to fight against power traitors. Li is a rare and radiant female image in China's classical operas. She is not only beautiful and intelligent, but also upright and strong, and has a clear view of political right and wrong. She bases her love relationship and choice on political relationship and choice, which is a higher basis than Cui Yingying in The West Chamber and Du Liniang in The Peony Pavilion. It is also a place where Peach Blossom Fan has made a major breakthrough in thought and art, and its achievements in structural art are even more commendable. It takes "one life at a time as the whole program, and the chaos in the Southern Dynasties is irrelevant", and finally achieves the creative purpose of "writing the feeling of rise and fall through the feeling of separation and engagement". Therefore, from the ideological and artistic point of view, it is not too much to regard this drama as a masterpiece of legendary operas in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Peach Blossom Fan is a famous legendary drama of China in Qing Dynasty. This is written by Kong. After more than ten years, it has been changed three times. The play shows the struggle between the Qing Dynasty, represented by Fu She literati, Wu Ciwei and Chen, and the power traitors, represented by Ruan Dacheng and Chen, at the end of Ming Dynasty, reveals the reasons for the political corruption and decline in Nanming, and reflects the social outlook at that time. The author's creative intention is to "write the ups and downs through the feelings of separation and love". Through his love story with Li, he showed the history of the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty, summed up the historical experience of the 300-year national subjugation of the Ming Dynasty, and showed rich and complicated social and historical contents. The artistic achievement of Peach Blossom Fan is mainly manifested in the formation of a complete image system in characterization; In the artistic structure, taking the love between Hou and Li as a clue, it organizes all kinds of social contradictions, which is tight and compact; In addition, his lyrics are fluent and beautiful, rich in literary talent.

The plot of the play is: I met Li in the old courtyard of Nanjing and got engaged. The eunuch Ruan Dacheng learned that Hou Fangyu was short of money and secretly sent a dowry to woo him. Xiang Jun saw through this trap and held a grudge against Ruan Dacheng. After the establishment of Nanming, Ruan falsely accused him of forcing him to flee Nanjing. Ruan Dacheng, who was in power, tried to force Xiang Jun to remarry, but was rejected by party member Tian Yang, and Xiang Jun's blood was full of love poems. Yang Longyou, a friend, dyed the traces on the fan as broken peach blossoms, hence the name Peach Blossom Fan. Later, Nanming perished, and Hou and Li reunited. But what is home when the country breaks down and dies? They tore up the peach blossom fan and became monks respectively.