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Dou E's mother died when she was a child. Her father, Dou Zhangtian, is a poor scholar. Because there was no travelling expenses in Beijing, she was sold to Cai Popo as a child bride. But not two years after arriving at Cai's home, her husband died of illness, leaving only her mother-in-law to live alone.

Second folding translation:

Zhang donkey bears a grudge. A few days later, Cai's mother-in-law became ill and asked her to make mutton soup. Zhang donkey secretly put poison in the soup, trying to poison Cai's mother-in-law first, and then forced to get married. Dou E brought the mutton soup to Grandma Cai. Grandma Cai took the bowl and suddenly felt sick and nauseous, so she gave it to Zhang. Zhang was poisoned, rolled on the ground a few times and swallowed. Zhang Maolv didn't expect to poison his father, so he was so angry that he planted the murder charge on him and sued Chuzhou yamen.

The magistrate of Chuzhou was secretly bribed by a donkey. Without asking indiscriminately, he took Dou E to court for interrogation and forced her to confess. Dou E was tortured to death, but she still refused to admit it.

Knowing that he was filial to his mother-in-law, the magistrate wanted to torture Cai's mother-in-law in front of Dou E, thinking that her mother-in-law was too old to stand the torture, so she had to confess to taking poison and commit suicide. So corrupt officials sentenced Dou E to death and took him to the execution ground for execution.

Extended data:

Dou Eyuan is a drama created by Guan Hanqing, a dramatist in Yuan Dynasty, and it was written in the tenth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1582).

The whole play is 60% off, and it is about a weak widow, Dou E, who was framed by hooligans, beaten by unconscious officials, forced to confess, became a murderer and was sentenced to beheading. Before his execution, Dou E was filled with grief and indignation, and made three vows: blood spilled everywhere, snow fell in June, and there was no drought for three years. Sure enough, Dou E's injustice touched the earth, and the three vows were realized one by one.

The play shows the tragic situation that the lower class people are trampled and have nowhere to complain, accuses corrupt officials of ignoring the dark reality of human life, vividly depicts the female image of Dou E, and embodies Guan Hanqing's language style full of human feelings and true colors.

Time background

In the Yuan Dynasty, some Mongolian ministers colluded with local officials to take bribes and pervert the law in order to meet the extravagant life and military needs of Mongolian nobles. Under the cruel class oppression and national oppression, the working people of all ethnic groups live a miserable life, especially the discriminated Han people and southerners, and there are countless unjust cases.

Guan Hanqing is one of some literati with a sense of justice who are dissatisfied with the dark rule of the government and expose the evil of officialdom and social injustice in the form of zaju. He wrote what he saw and heard and the tragic experience of the people into his play "Earthshaking Sin and Injustice".

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Feel the injustice of Dou E.