梁山伯与祝英台
The Butterfly Lovers
Level 5 · Idiom Stories · 成语故事 · 65 vocabulary words
Source: 民间传说 · Folk tradition
祝英台女扮男装去杭州读书,和同学梁山伯成了好朋友。
Zhu Yingtai disguised herself as a man to study in Hangzhou, and became fast friends with classmate Liang Shanbo.
三年同窗,英台爱上了山伯,山伯却不知道她是女的。
Three years together, she loved him; he never knew she was a woman.
英台回家,父母把她许给了别人。山伯知道了,又急又病,死了。
Called home, she was betrothed to another. When Shanbo learned the truth, he fell ill of grief and died.
英台出嫁那天,路过山伯的坟,坟忽然裂开,英台跳了进去。一对蝴蝶从坟里飞出来,自由自在,再也不分开了。
On her wedding day the procession passed his grave, it split open and she leapt in. Out flew two butterflies, free together forever.