What does matchmaker mean?

Matchmaker is a role in The West Chamber written by Wang Shifu, a dramatist in Yuan Dynasty. Help Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng, and finally let them have lovers.

Later, people called the person who helped others to form a beautiful marriage a matchmaker, which means something like a monthly exam.

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Wang Shifu (1260-1336) was born in Dexin and Dadu (now Beijing), and his ancestral home is Dingxing (now Dingxing County), Baoding City, Hebei Province.

A famous zaju writer in Yuan Dynasty wrote the zaju The West Chamber, which is not only his masterpiece, but also one of the best works in Yuan Dynasty.

Wang Shifu is as famous as Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu and Ma Zhiyuan.

Their works fully inherited the exquisite language art of Tang poetry and Song poetry, absorbed the lively oral language of the people in Yuan Dynasty, created a brilliant vocabulary of Yuan opera, and became outstanding representatives of "literary school" in the history of China opera.