Huatu yuan

{{Short description|Novel by Buyue Zhuren}}

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Huatu yuan ({{zh|t=畫圖緣 |s=画图缘|first=t}}),{{Efn|Also known in Chinese as Hua tian jin yu yuan ({{zh|t=花田金玉緣|s=花田金玉缘|first=t}}) and a few other titles.}} also translated into English as A Destiny in Two Paintings,{{cite book |editor1 = Leo Tak-hung Chan|editor2= Zong-qi Cai|author-link= |date=2022 |title=History Retold: Premodern Chinese Texts in Western Translation |url= |location= |publisher=Brill |page=291 |isbn=}} is a classic Chinese novel that was published in the late 17th-century during the early Qing dynasty. A romantic caizi jiaren novel,{{cite book |date=2003 |title=Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews | volume = 25 | url= |location= |publisher=Coda Press |page=60|isbn=}}{{cite book | last= McMahon | first = Keith |author-link= |date=2009 |title=Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity |url= |location= |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |page=162 |isbn=}} it was written by Buyue Zhuren (步月主人), a writer under a pseudonym.