'Super Girl' blooms as Jasmine

The lyric of Chinese folk song Jasmine is perhaps one of the most popular Chinese songs in the world: "What a beautiful jasmine, scented and charming on the branches; everybody admires your scent and white flowers; I would love to pick one and put it on my hair, but I'm afraid of being laughed by others. "

And now Zheng Tianwei, veteran playwright and director with the Beijing People's Art Theater, will tell her version of the Jasmine story through a two-scene musical, performed by China Opera and Ballet Company.

Zheng's story is set in the 1930s. A girl named Jasmine, who is born in a tea garden to the south of the Yangtze River, falls in love with a man when she arrives in Shanghai. Later she returns to the garden where she meets her childhood lover who turns out to be the brother of the man she loves. Thus starts a love triangle between Jasmine and the brothers.