Scope and Contents Meng Duan Ying Hua Nian Si Qiao 梦断樱花廿四桥 Meng Duan Ying Hua Nian Si Qiao. All sheets and booklets are stamped by the Arts and Performing Center 曲艺苑. The story is adapted from Su Manshu’s autobiographical novel Lone Swan. The novel tells the story of Saburo, a young man who is unsure of whether he want to be a Buddhist monk or be married. At the start of the novel he is just finishing his thirty-day probation at the Sea Clouds monastery. On completion he goes to work for an abbot. He has to...