Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Yingtai- Leading children astray since the Jin Dynasty
I am sure many have heard of the famous Chinese folklore 梁山伯与祝英台, or the Butterfly Lovers. The Butterfly Lovers tells the story of a noble lady Zhu Ying Tai, who had aspirations to get an education. Despite the fact that women were forbidden to get an education in Imperial China, she went against all odds to ask her parents to send her to school disguised as a man so that she could graduate and contribute to society just as a man could. In school, she met Liang Shan Bo, an impoverished but brilliant scholar. She fell in love with him but unfortunately, her school term was cut short because her father fell terminally ill. Before parting with Liang Shan Bo, she tried to subtly hint to him that she was a woman, and told him to look for her at the Zhu residence after he graduated to propose to her "ninth sister" who was really her. As fate would have it, upon returning home, she realised that her parents had bethrothed her to a wealthy merchant named Ma Wen Cai. Liang Shan Bo re
