Liyuan Theater Repertoire

1、 Eight Immortals Crossing Sea
The eight immortals attended the birthday banquet of Queen Mother and got dead drunk. On their way home, they had to cross the raging East Sea. Each used his own skills and power to do it, which agitated the East Sea and the Fairy Goldfish. The Fairy Goldfish argued with the Eight Immortals; and the Eight Immortals felt indefensible and pretended to be drunk and fought with the Fairy Goldfish, but were defeated. They apologized to the Fairy Goldfish and then crossed the sea. 

2、Presenting a pearl on the rainbow bridge
This play originates in a fairy tale. A fairy maiden（Lingbo）admired a young scholar (Bai Yong) for his talents.One day they unexpectedly met on the Rainbow Bridge-and it was love at first sight! Fairy Lingbo sent Bai Yong a pearl symbolizing their eternal love. This went against the rules of Heaven, so God Erlang led Samgharam, Baby-Faced Nezha and other heavenly soldiers to capture Fairy Lingbo. But Fairy Lingbo led the water goblins and defeated God Erlang, and finally married Bai Yong.

3、Death of Yu Ji
Warring leaders Liu Bang and Xiang Yu agreed to a truce and drew a demarcation line at Honggou. Liu’s generl feigned surrender to Xiang and then successfully lured Xiang and his troops into an ambush. Xiang and his troops were surrounded and couldn’t break through. When his soldiers heard their folk songs sung from the enemy, they took it for granted that their fellow soldiers had given up fighting. and their morale went down. Xiang realized that the fight was lost and indulged in his drinks in despair. He bid fatewell to his lover, Yu Ji, who danced her last dance before killing herself with a sword. Though Xiang broke through the tight encirclement and got lost, he felt ashamed of seeing his countrymen and killed himself by cutting his throat by the side of Wu River.

4、Goddess of Heaven Scattering Flowers
Sakyamuni heard that Vimalakirti was sick and asked Manjuari to lead all the disciples to see Vimalakirti. and asked the goddess to scatter flowers to bring fortune to him. The goddess departed from All Fragrant Land and traveled a long distance Four Sramaneras discussed Dharma and took care of Vimalakirti,and manjuari meditated with him.Then he goddess came and scattered flowers.

5、Havoc in the Dragon’s Palace
The play was based on the famous Chinese classic “Journey to the West”. Monkey king, sun wukong and his fellows gathered in the Huaguo mountain. Monkey king went to the Dragon Palace under the sea asking for a weapon from the Dragon king. He got a very powerful stick(As-You-Will Gold-Banded Cudgel).which could calm the sea. Later, he fought with the Dragon King.