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Infidelity is often called "緋聞" in Taiwan because it is considered
to be news.

It is always a "breaking news" that news media love to broadcast,
and sadly people like to hear.

Infidelity is always destructive, and often fatal, to a marriage.

Many women (the betrayed spouses), under the influence of
traditional Chinese culture, often choose to sacrifice, forgive,
and swallow the sorrow.

The following two pieces of 明代俗曲民歌 reflect their anguish
and heartbreaking feelings:

掛枝兒

露水荷葉珠兒現，
是奴家痴心腸把線來穿。
誰知你水性兒多更變。
這邊分散了，又向那邊圓。
沒真性的冤家也，隨著風兒轉。

劈破玉

要分離，除非天做了地。
要分離，除非東做了西。
要分離，除非官做了吏。
你要分時分不得我，
我要離時離不得你。
就死在黃泉也，
做不得分離鬼。

Yeh Tze