The Fairy Bride

Dong Yong and the Seventh Sister

A celestial maiden weds the filial Dong Yong for a hundred days beneath the scholar tree.

In the Heavenly Match, the filial Dong Yong sells himself into servitude to bury his father. Moved by his virtue, the seventh daughter of heaven descends to earth and weds him, weaving ten bolts of brocade in a single night to pay his debt. Their hundred days of marriage end when heaven recalls her; beneath the old locust tree they part, and the tree, witness to their vow, can only weep.