Love. Literature on free love in the Tang dynasty (618- 907) was incomparable in terms of its quantity to that published during other times in the imperial period of China. In addition to many poems, there were several popular novels on the subject, such as the "Story of Ying Ying," about a lady of upper-class origin who engaged in a romantic and premarital affair with a poor man name Zhang Zhen, and the "Story of Fei Yan," which praised the courage of a young woman who fought for the right to love the man she chose. Fei Yan, a concubine of a rich man, had an affair with that young man. The story ends tragically with Fei Yan committing suicide rather than surrendering to social pressure. Tang literature also touched boldly on human sexuality. Tian Di Yin Yang Da jiao Huan (A...