In Search for Romeo: Love Questing

“You must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you.” ― Maxine Hong Kingston, "The Woman Warrior"

Those Daring, Dying, Flying Women: When Women Ruled the Earth

Jen was a Chinese warrior, who practiced tai chi and other deadly martial arts, for she could defeat any man in battle. Therefore, she was respected, up to a point. Like Mulan who fought for her country to gain respect from her father, she tried to be loved.

She found a young man, named Romeo, who courted her with respect, dignity, and love. Indeed, she did everything to test his true heart, like pretend she didn't love him as a way to test his true resilience. However, he never gave up and waited years for her love to grow.

With each day, each week, each month, each year, Jen continued to test him and push him back away from her heart to find out his true colors and spirit. Even though he was from a wealthy family, she noticed that he took care of his aging mother and grandmother. With his respect for the matriarchy, her respect for him grew and grew stronger. Therefore, she learned to love him deeper and deeper and deeper as his love for her grew more and more and more.

Romeo even went to the grave site of his great grandmother, a fire horse lady during the Hungry Ghost Festival which is celebrated as Mother's Day in China. Because if you respect the dead, you show that you repect the living too. Love is eternal, beyond death.

The supernatural nature of love became part of the romancing of Jen and her magical sword. Indeed, sorcery tales involving martial arts, love, betrayals, and curses are part of Chinese folk lore and life.

The sword of love becomes a sword of karma. Betray Jen and she will cut your heart out or suck your chi energy dry day by day because women out live men, for they have a higher code of ethics.

In the final scene, Jen jumps off a cliff and flies to her death because of her mistakes. Romeo watches her die to prove she is a warrior of ethics.

Those daring, dying, flying women are a part of the powerful cult of the Asian matriarchy who needs some examination because we missed something whenever we allowed men to rule with absolute power. Though Romeo and his family have so much power, he is different because of his respect for women and Jen.

Women as warriors and spiritual beings demand respect, compassion and love. Though Jen sacrifices her life by falling to her death, she inadvertently caused by her teacher, Master Li Mu Bai, karmic reactions will also occur for her death.

Her death will cause the rise of a vengeful ghost that men will have to face. The dead can return to haunt the living. Men often feared the suicide of women for their signification often had tragic consequences in their own lives. They fear the ghosts and demons of the night who return with a voice that must be heard, for revenge is a powerful weapon that causes nightmares throughout the psyche of Asian men who did not respect the women they oppressed.

In "Crouching Tiger," the female protagonists, both Jen, the hidden dragon, leaped into the sky falling toward her death to prove her spirit. Jen possessed the power to fly like an angel of love and light . Yes, through her last act, she chose to die by flight of the light.

The ritual of love is mightier than the sword or the pen. Love more to be more alive.

It starts with love. . .

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