Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the 12th century, according to the bawdy Chinese classic. Chin P'ing Mei, there lived a rich and lustful man named Hsi Men. When this libertine wished to indulge in what is delicately called wind and moon play,
Hsi Men's mortal shell finally cracked from overexposure to wind and moon, and he died at 33.
Chin P'ing Mei ends Hsi Men's story here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi...
The saintly Moon Lady, separated from her pious young son by invading Tartars, is hustled offstage before she can become tiresome. Her place is taken by a crew of thieves, usurers, pimps and powder faces (prostitutes) who add up to a kind of road-company Decameron. The fat lecher Pi...
In the end, of course, virtuous Moon Lady is restored to her riches and reunited with her son. But as the author probably intended, what the reader remembers is more likely to be the song of the low-living and unrepentant beggar Ying: