The Butterfly Lovers

"The Butterfly Lovers" is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai, whose names form the title of the story. The title is often abbreviated to Liang Zhu and often regarded as the Chinese equivalent of "Romeo and Juliet". In 3A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but handsome and industrious young man, but their short love affair ends in disaster.