Chinese Kunqu Opera: Peony Pavilion-part-17.2

青春版牡丹亭-婚走 The wedding

At Priestess Stone's suggestion, the newly united lovers leave Nan'an immediately to avoid gossip. They are married on a boat, bowing once to Heaven and Earth, once to their parents from afar, and once to each other. Du Liniang tells Liu Mengmei that she is still a virgin. Liu, surprised, asks how that can be possible since they have already been intimate. She replies that what happened when she was a ghost does not taint her real body.

The conversation on virginity establishes a demarcation between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead. Du Liniang returns to her former virginal identity. Thus, Tang Xianzu was still quite conservative about female chastity.

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