On August 19, 2023, an extremely hot day, the I Wan Yan Troupe and a large group of musicians set up their portable stage in the Beitou Plum Garden and performed a story about the love between a dragon girl and a mortal, adopted from the legendary novel: “The Legend of Liu Yi” written by Li Chao Wei from the Tang Dynasty. The Beitou Plum Garden 北投梅庭 is a museum in the former summer residence of calligrapher Yu Youren. It was built in the late 1930’s on sloped terrain. The Japanese timber framing-style architecture features a common RC air raid shelter used in the early stage of the Pacific War. The enclosing walls of the courtyard adopted a battlement structure. The backyard is tree-shaded, overlooking Beitou River with murmuring water *, and within this garden  the I Wan Yan Troupe had set up their portable stage to perform a new adaptation of “The Legend of Liu Yi” – a love story between Scholar Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess Sanniang.
This is an adaptation of the thirteenth-century zaju play Liu Yi Chuan Shu, which was itself based on an eighth-century fairy tale about a failed examination candidate’s encounter with a shepherdess in distress who turns out to be the youngest daughter of the Dragon King of Lake Dongting. The young man’s help is rewarded with riches, immortality and marriage to the beautiful princess. It is a wish-fulfillment fantasy written with charm and a certain ironical edge.  This summary comes fromhere > more info here