The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, whose names form the title of the story. The title is often abbreviated to Liang Zhu. The story is now counted as one of China’s Four Great Folktales, the others being the Legend of the White Snake, Lady Men Jiang, and The Cowherd and the Weaving Maid. The legend of Butterfly Lovers is full of the features of Jiang Nan and reflects the unique mental characteristics of people in Jiang Nan. The plot in the legend can vividly show people’s devoted spirit to love. In addition, the legend has been changed into different forms, for example, ballad, romantic, opera, music and so on. Due to this, the legend has become popular among people. What’s more, Six cities in China have collaborated in 2004 on a formal application for the Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on the legend at UNESCO, submitted in 2006 through the Chinese Ministry of Culture.

2.2 Romeo and Juliet

    The story of Romeo and Juliet happened between ,源Z自+吹冰=文)论(文]网[www.chuibin.com the Montague and the Capulet in an Italy city named Verona. The enmity of the two families leads to the endless disputes between the Montague and the Capulet. Therefore, there will appear machete attacks when the two families meet together. Even though, there still generates a touching love between the two families. Both Romeo and Juliet are worried about this affection which is against a background of mutual hating. However, Romeo has the gut to ask a priest, who is kind enough to be willing to help them achieve their aims and hopes that their combination can make the elder generation forget their mutual enmity, to hold a secret marriage ceremony for them.