Cui Yingying

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Cui Yingying
File:Romance of the Western Chamber Shaoxing opera 03.jpg
Actress Chen Minjuan (陈敏娟) portraying Cui Yingying (right) in a 2016 Yue opera performance in Tianchan Theatre, Shanghai.
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCuī Yíngyíng
Wade–GilesTs'ui1 Ying2 Ying2
Cui Yingying
File:Northern Western Wing 1 6.png
An illustration by Chen Hongshou
Created byYuan Zhen
In-universe information
SpouseMr. Zhang
NationalityTang
MotherLady Zheng (鄭氏)
MaidHongniang

Cui Yingying is a fictional character from "Yingying's Biography", a Chinese story by Yuan Zhen (779–831), and Romance of the Western Chamber, a Chinese play by Wang Shifu (1250–1337?).

Further reading

  • Dong, Lorraine (1978). The Creation and Life of Cui Yingying (c. 803–1969) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Washington.
  • Dong, Lorraine (1981). "The Many Faces of Cui Yingying". Historical Reflections. 8 (3): 75–98. JSTOR 41298761.