{"id":1315443,"date":"2024-07-04T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkadc.tecturasystem.com\/event\/the-purple-hairpin-3\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:28:22","slug":"the-purple-hairpin-3","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/event\/the-purple-hairpin-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Purple Hairpin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Yik, a talented young man, comes to Chang&#8217;an to attend the imperial examination with Tsui Wan-ming and Wai Ha-hing. On the night of the Spring Lantern Festival, he meets Fok Siu-yuk and recovers her purple hairpin which becomes their love-token. They get married on that very same night.<br \/>\nHowever, the daughter of Lo, the supreme offcial of military afairs, is in love with Li Yik too. Owing to his refusal of being Lo&#8217;s son-in-law, Li Yik is appointed to a military post beyond the Great Wall even he comes out rst in the imperial examination. And thus the young couple is separated.<br \/>\nNothing is heard from Li Yik for three years and Fok&#8217;s living becomes diffcult, but she keeps subsidizing Wan-ming from time to time. At last, she has to pawn even the purple hairpin.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Lo has Li Yik summoned to Chang&#8217;an to be his son-in-law, and beats Wan-ming to death for his refusal to be the matchmaker for Li Yik and his daughter. In order to quench Li Yik&#8217;s affection for Siu-yuk, he further procures the purple hairpin as a proof of her remarriage. At Ci&#8217;en Temple, a Chevalier in Yellow Gown, after hearing her story, helps Siu-yuk to reunite with Li Yik. However, Lo has his men take Li Yik back to marry his daughter during their reunion. As advised by the Chevalier, Siu-yuk comes to claim her husband back at the wedding. Just when Lo tries to beat her to death on the accusation of intrusion, the Chevalier comes as the emperor&#8217;s brother. He deposes Lo for his evil deeds and reunites Siu-yuk and Li Yik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373392,373316],"area_type":[350138],"event_language":[365762],"series":[387115,387176,388313],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1315443","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-xiqu-cantonese-opera-en","event_category-xiqu-en","area_type-local","event_language-cantonese","series-performance-series","series-cantonese-opera-young-talent-showcase","series-2019-20-phase-2","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1315443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1315443"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1315443"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1315443"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1315443"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1315443"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1315443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}