鸳鸯蝴蝶派

Traditional form:

鴛鴦蝴蝶派

Pinyin (reading):

yuānyanghúdiépài

Definitions:

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

Characters:

• 鸳 - male mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
• 鸯 - female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
• 蝴 - butterfly
• 蝶 - butterfly
• 派 - clique, faction, group, sect

Traditional characters:

• 鴛 - male mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
• 鴦 - female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
• 蝴 - butterfly
• 蝶 - butterfly
• 派 - clique, faction, group, sect