Rebekah Phillips The Story of Yingying

The Story of Yingying Rebekah Phillips

The Story of Yingying is about a young boy named Zhang who was travelling to a monastery for his studies when an uprising occurred in the military as an unruly general tried to take over after the death of a beloved ruler. Zhang saves a friend of the family and her children from the chaos that ensues as well as falls in love with their daughter, Yingying. Both go through an emotional adventure as they fall in love and learn that love is not always meant to be. Life pulls them apart and they end up marrying other people, never to see each other again. The Story of Yingying was written by Yuan Zhen in ca. 804.