Liang Shan-bo (English spelling)

Japanese: 梁山伯 - りょうざんぱく（英語表記）Liang Shan-bo

This is a play from the Yue Opera, a regional Chinese drama. In Peking Opera, it is called "Zhu Yingtai". It is one of the most representative Yue Opera plays, which often feature love stories between men and women. It is a tragic love story between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. It is popular as the Chinese version of "Romeo and Juliet" and has also been made into a movie under the title "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". Sharing the same academic aspirations, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, disguised as a man, swear to be brothers and study at a private school in Hangzhou. When Yingtai returns home, she hints at her love for Shanbo as a woman. Later, realizing Shanbo's true intentions, he goes to pick Yingtai up, but as she is already engaged, he falls ill and dies in despair. On the day of her marriage, when Yingtai visits the tomb dressed as a bride, the tomb suddenly splits and Yingtai is sucked into it. This is based on an old folk tale in which two butterflies flutter down after the tomb.

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Japanese:

中国の地方劇，越劇の戯曲。京劇では『祝英台』。男女の情愛物の多い越劇のなかでも代表的なものの一つ。梁山伯と祝英台の悲恋物語。中国版『ロミオとジュリエット』として人気があり，『梁山伯と祝英台』の題で映画にもなった。勉学の志を同じくする梁山伯と男装した祝英台は，兄弟の契りを結び，杭州の塾に学ぶ。帰郷のとき，英台は山伯に女としての愛情をほのめかす。のちに真意を悟った山伯は英台を迎えに行くが，すでに婚約がととのっていたため，絶望のうちに病で死ぬ。英台がとつぐ日，花嫁姿で墓参すると，急に墓が裂けて英台はその中に吸込まれる。そのあとには，2つの蝶が舞っていたという古い民間説話から取材したもの。

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