Huatu yuan

Huatu yuan (traditional Chinese: 畫圖緣; simplified Chinese: 画图缘),[lower-alpha 1] also translated into English as A Destiny in Two Paintings,[1] is a classic Chinese novel that was published in the late 17th-century during the early Qing dynasty. A romantic caizi jiaren novel,[2][3] it was written by Buyue Zhuren (步月主人), a writer under a pseudonym.

The cover of a modern 1948 edition of the novel
Inside pages of a printed edition of the novel Huatu yuan

Notes
  1. Also known in Chinese as Hua tian jin yu yuan (traditional Chinese: 花田金玉緣; simplified Chinese: 花田金玉缘) and a few other titles.

Citations
  1. Leo Tak-hung Chan; Zong-qi Cai, eds. (2022). History Retold: Premodern Chinese Texts in Western Translation. Brill. p. 291.
  2. Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews. Vol. 25. Coda Press. 2003. p. 60.
  3. McMahon, Keith (2009). Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity. University of Hawaii Press. p. 162.
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