The Tale of Genji

"The Tale of Genji" is set in the heyday of the Heian Dynasty in Japan. Through the life experience and love stories of the protagonist Genji, it describes the corrupt politics, promiscuous life, mutual strife and power struggle among the upper-class nobles in the society at that time, and Genji's love and marriage. , which reveals the tragic fate of women under polygamy. In aristocratic society, marriage between men and women is often a means of political struggle, and women have become tools of political transactions and playthings in the hands of noble men. There are fifty-four chapters in the whole book, nearly one million words. The story involves four generations of emperors, over 70 years, and more than 400 characters. The whole book takes the Genji family as the center, and the first half describes the sad or beautiful love life of the Genji son, the concubines and maids; the second half takes the son of the Genji son Xunjun as the protagonist, laying out the complicated and complicated love entanglements between men and women .