鸳鸯蝴蝶派 yuān yang hú dié pài

DEFINITIONS

  1. Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists

CHARACTERS

鸳 yuān male mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
鸯 yang female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
蝴 hú butterfly
蝶 dié butterfly
派 pài school of thought, sect, branch