Scope and Contents Xi Shi-Meeting at Lake Tai in Dream 西施-梦会太湖 (Xi Shi-Meng Hui Tai Hu). All sheets are stamped by 曲艺苑 the Performance and Art Center. The play is a love story between Xi Shi and Fan Li, a court official of the Yue kingdom, set in the Spring and Autumn Period. Xi Shi was a very beautiful woman. Fan Li asked Xi Shi to marry the Emperor of the Wu kingdom to distract him from the war. After the Wu kingdom was defeated, Fan Li resigned from government in the Yue kingdom to live with Xi Shi in the...