Peacock Flies Southeast as a longest story-telling poem in Chinese literary history wins great popularity with its moving love story ever since it appears. The researches and studies based upon this story have come into being as mushrooms one after another since the liberation of our country. The period can be divided into two with the boundary of the 1980s. The former period, roughly from the 1950s to the 1980s, mainly focused on its theme and its controversial ages in which the story took place. As to the theme, there are a few findings such as the saying of anti-feudalism, ode to the love, anti-feudal rites. As to the ages, such as late Eastern Han, Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty, etc. The scholars taking part in the study of it usually are famous and authoritative, such as Yu Pingbo, Tang Zhang, You Guoshi, Luo Zhufeng, etc. The latter period, from the 1980s until the present, mostly concentrated on its tragic reasons that why Lanzhi was discarded by her mother-in-law. With the raising of the problem, some teachers made some claims such as the saying of personality, envy of mother for Lanzhi, no child, etc. Though these findings are quite new, yet they lack solid evidence, and are not quite convincing. Therefore, it needs re-examination and non-prejudice opinion.

Researches made on similar topics were usually about the comparison on personalities between Lanzhi and Juliet, on the process leading to the death of the two couples, or on the different beauties in the two stories. Some scholars like to put more efforts on the comparison between Romeo and Juliet and The Romance of the West Bower, or with The Peony Pavilion, or with The Chinese Butterflies. After looking up the materials, I found the researches similar to mine were rare and if any, its researching direction does not overlap with mine in too many aspects. My paper will unfold a brand-new picture for those readers who crave to know deeper and better on this topic.