The Wandering Dragon Toys with the Phoenix (京剧游龙戏凤)

Overview

The story is set around the year 1517. The Ming Emperor Zhengde has left the capital incognito to survey life on the Northwestern frontier, where skirmishes with Mongols were a regular occurrence. Arriving at Meilong Garrison, Zhengde enters an inn run by a young brother and sister. Zhengde, in disguise as an army captain, orders the brother to keep the night watch. The Emperor, who doesn’t mind taking his pleasures where he finds them, is quite smitten with the inn’s proprietress, the pert Li Fengjie (Plum Phoenix-Sister). Nor is she immune to his charms. A game of erotic cat-and-mouse ensues.