Rain on the Paulownia Tree · SR100090

Act Three

On the flight west the guards mutiny at Mawei, Yang Guozhong is killed and Yang Guifei is put to death

Part of · Rain on the Paulownia Tree

The fleeing court halts at Mawei, where the guards refuse to go on until Yang Guozhong is killed and then demand that Yang Guifei be punished too. The emperor reluctantly agrees and she is strangled in a shrine. The first tune is Xinshui ling.