The book Beauty from the Painting tells the story of the fairy maiden Zhang Meizhen and the young man Li Fulai. In the story, a poverty-stricken yet kind-hearted country boy called Li Fulai saved an old lady. The old lady’s husband gave him a painting with a beautiful girl onit. Later the girl on the painting incarnated in human form and married Li Fulai. Together they helped the villagers punish the evil king.