Западный флигель, где Цуй Ин-ин ожидала луну

"Zapadnyĭ fligelʹ, gde T͡Suĭ In-in ozhidala lunu" - pʹesa, v kotoroĭ rasskazyvaetsi͡a istorii͡a, starai͡a kak mir, - o li͡ubvi devushki i i͡unoshi, kotorykh ne ostanavlivai͡ut ni rasstoi͡anii͡a, ni tradit͡sii, ni soslovnye granit͡sy. No blagodari͡a ėtomu proizvedenii͡u Van Shi-fu voshel v panteon luchshikh kitaĭskikh dramaturgov vsekh vremen. Mesto, kotoroe zanimaet "Zapadnyĭ fligelʹ" v kitaĭskoĭ kulʹture, ravnoznachno tomu, kotoroe zanimai͡ut shekspirovskie "Romeo i Dzhulʹetta" v kulʹture evropeĭskoĭ. Tolʹko u pʹesy Van Shi-fu schastlivyĭ final. "Zapadnyĭ fligelʹ" okazal ogromnoe vlii͡anie na razvitie kitaĭskoĭ dramaturgii i literatury i vot uzhe semʹsot let ne skhodit so st͡seny kitaĭskogo teatra. Pʹesu pytalisʹ zapreshchatʹ za "amoralʹnostʹ", no, podobno svoim geroi͡am, ona preodolevala vse pregrady na puti k zriteli͡am, slushateli͡am, chitateli͡am. I na proti͡azhenii neskolʹkikh vekov istorii͡a In-in i Chzhana Guna neizmenno vdokhnovli͡ala khudozhnikov. Si͡uzhety iz pʹesy ukrashali keramiku, tkani, shirmy i svitki. I konechno, knigi s tekstom "Zapadnogo fligeli͡a" chasto soprovozhdalisʹ illi͡ustrat͡sii͡ami - nekotorye iz nikh voshli v nastoi͡ashchee izdanie. Na russkom i͡azyke drama publikuetsi͡a v klassicheskom perevode izvestnogo uchenogo-vostokoveda Lʹva Menʹshikova, v knigu vkli͡ucheny statʹi͡a i kommentarii.

"The Western Wing, where Cui Ying Ying waited for the Moon" is a play that tells a story as old as the world, about the love of a girl and a young man who are not stopped by distances, traditions, or class boundaries. But thanks to this work, Wang Shi-fu entered the pantheon of the best Chinese playwrights of all time. The place occupied by the "Western Wing" in Chinese culture is equivalent to that occupied by Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in European culture. Only Wang Shi-fu's play has a happy ending. The Western Wing had a huge impact on the development of Chinese drama and literature and has not left the stage of the Chinese theater for seven hundred years. They tried to ban the play for its "immorality," but, like its characters, it overcame all obstacles on the way to the audience, listeners, and readers. And for several centuries, the story of Ying Ying and Zhang Gong has consistently inspired artists. Subjects from the play decorated ceramics, fabrics, screens and scrolls. And of course, books with the text of the "Western Wing" were often accompanied by illustrations — some of them are included in this edition. In Russian, the drama is published in a classical translation by the famous orientalist Lev Menshikov, and the book includes an article and commentary.