The next sentence is "Love doesn't know where it will end, and it passes away suddenly."

It means that true love arises out of nowhere, and it suddenly becomes as deep as the sea. It comes from the masterpiece "The Peony Pavilion Resurrection" by Tang Xianzu, a playwright of the Ming Dynasty.

The beautiful love described in the play, "You don't know where the love started, but you are deeply in love, the living can die, and the dead can live." It has fascinated many people over the past four hundred years, such as the legendary Loujiang woman Yu Erniang He died of a broken heart after reading this book, and Hangzhou actress Shang Xiaoling died of heartbreak because of acting in this play.

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In "The Resurrection of the Peony Pavilion", Du Liniang, the daughter of the prefect who is depressed both physically and mentally, falls into a dream while visiting a garden with an elegant scholar. Liu Mengmei met and became happy. After waking up from the dream, Du Liniang was melancholy and uneasy. She "didn't know the origin of love" and became lovesick. Her illness was difficult to recover and she eventually died.

Three years later, Liu Mengmei, the person in Du Liniang's dream, accidentally got a self-painted portrait of a beautiful woman. Liniang also returned to the world as a wandering soul, looking for the marriage in her dream. With the help of others, Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei finally broke through the obstacles in love, came back from the dead, and finally got married.

In this legendary work, Tang Xianzu depicts the touching life-and-death love between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei. This passionate interpretation of love all represents Tang Xianzu’s philosophy on life and love. Du Liniang, who thought and experienced the world, and died deeply in love, became the embodiment of the ideal of love in Tang Xianzu's works.

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