{"id":1315454,"date":"2024-07-04T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkadc.tecturasystem.com\/event\/contending-for-the-bride-21\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:22:32","slug":"contending-for-the-bride-21","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/event\/contending-for-the-bride-21\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Contending for the Bride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Chinese New Year Eve, Guai Nam-ping and Yu Kit-jing fall in love at first sight after Nam-ping rescues Kit-jing and her maid from Cho Tit-ho&#8217;s molestation. However, when Nam-ping sees Kit jing&#8217;s father, Yu Yao-choi, collecting debts from the poor, he beats him up and forces him to tear the IOUs into pieces so as to teach him a lesson. With this grudge and the prejudice against Nam ping and for his father&#8217;s shabby clothes, Yao-choi breaks off the engagement that was made before Nam-ping and Kit-jing&#8217;s birth. He further agrees to marry Kit-jing to Tit-ho. Yao-choi finds that Nam-ping meets Kit-jing in secret and declares against their marriage unless Nam-ping can present a betrothal gift which matches his wealth. Nam-ping comes earlier than Tit-ho for the bride but is expelled on the accusation of embezzling. Unwilling to marry Tit-ho,<br \/>\nKit-jing disguises herself as the bridesmaid and has Kit-bing be the bride when Tit-ho comes. Her plan fails and the parties take the case to court.<br \/>\nWith his powerful status, Tit-ho compels Bat Sau-fat to find Nam-ping guilty and forces Kit-jing to be his wife. Luckily, Nam-ping&#8217; s father arrives with the imperial edict and reprimands Tit-ho and Yu&#8217; s father. Finally, Nam-ping and Kit-jing become a couple as they were engaged before their birth. The story comes to a happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373392,373316],"area_type":[350138],"event_language":[365762],"series":[387115,387176,388314],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1315454","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-3","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1315454","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=1315454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1315454"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1315454"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1315454"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1315454"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1315454"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1315454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}