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（Update：1998.10.22)

Peking Opera Stories







RED MULBERRY TOWN the most famous Baokun Show 



RED MULBERRY TOWN

This  is a story  about  the  piety  of the  great  Bao  Zheng, a
well-known  civil servant of the Song Dynasty (960-1126 AD).  Bao
Zheng was an orphan raised by his sister-in-law Wu Miaozhen along
with her own son Bao Mian.  The young uncle and nephew grew up to
be  important  civil  officials.  Bao  Zhang,  however, had
to
execute his nephew on account of the latter's  serious violations
of  the  civil  servants'  code.  And he  was  perceived  by
his
sister-in-law, the woman  who brought  him up, as ungrateful  and
unforgivable.  Reconciliation  was reached in Red Mulberry  Town
where Bao Zheng explained to his sister-in-law  the crimes of Bao
Mian and his own agony of having to put one of his own family  to
death.

There are numerous peking opera shows which features Bao Zheng's
well known trial stories.



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