Kunqu not only enriched Zhang Yuanhe's study life in her teenage years, but also became the moonlighting goddess of her love and marriage.
In 1929, Zhang Yuanhe and her second sister, Zhang Yunhe, were studying at Shanghai Guanghua University, where female students who loved kunqu spontaneously organized a kunqu group and asked Professor Tong Bozhang of Guanghua University to teach them kunqu.
When Gu Chuanjie was eighteen years old, an opera critic commented on him thus, "A return to the sight and sound makes one think for ten days." Zhang Yuanhe and his second sister, Zhang Yunhe, who had long admired his reputation, hoped that this favorite play would be performed by him, so they, together with other female classmates, took the liberty of writing a letter to Gu Chuanjie, asking him to perform "Pick Up Paintings and Call Them Paintings," a letter that was written by everyone who had put their heads together, and began in a very literal manner: "Chanting in the same good friends, and also have the friendship of the literature ... ..." Zhang Yuanhe later recalled this incident, saying, "How formal and polite, isn't it? After a few weeks, he really satisfied our request, we couldn't believe it." Soon we heard back, and Gu Chuanjie agreed to perform "Pick Up Paintings and Call Them Paintings" at the Big World. The girls were both surprised and scared. They were happy that their wish had come true, but they were afraid that in the 1940s, Shanghai's Big World was a place infested with hooligans and seldom patronized by male students, let alone female students. In order to see the show, that day, they invited several male students as bodyguards, called a cab to the big world of bold. The performance began. The stage of the Xianni Society was small, the lighting was poor, and the audience could only accommodate a hundred or so people. But when Gu Chuanjie paced the stage, everyone held their breath, forgetting all the bad elements of the environment and focusing their attention on him alone, listening to his beautiful, flowing and evocative voice, and watching his gentle and elegant performance without losing the passion of "Pick Up, Call". Gu Chuanjie played Liu Mengmei gentle and elegant, full of scrolls, the first time out on the stage to grasp the audience, the stage is quiet, the girls and the audience with bated breath to listen to Liu Mengmei graceful and melodious, echoing the wonderful song. This time to see the kunqu, in the heart of the young girl Zhang Yuanhe left an unforgettable impression, a "pick up, call", so that Tang Xianzu's dashing infatuation with Liu Mengmei as if resurrected, and this wonderful play also let Gu Chuanjia left a deep impression in the heart of Zhang Yuanhe. From then on, Zhang Yuanhe and the three female students of Daxia University became inseparable, and almost every Saturday and Sunday, they would go to see the Xianni Society's plays, in which year Zhang Yuanhe was twenty-two years old, and Gu Chuanjie was twenty years old.
Because Gu Chuanjie later gave up his studies under the patronage of Yan Huiyu, a Confucian merchant, and eight years later became deputy manager of Shanghai's Great Eastern Tobacco Company, where he married Ms. Zhang Yuanhe, hand in hand. Such a beautiful marriage should be thanks to the Kunqu Opera, the moon goddess who held the red silk thread for them. Zhang Yuanhe and Gu Chuanjie's marriage, a sensation in the Shanghai Bund at the time, became the gossip tabloid headlines, and some tabloids even to "Zhang Yuanhe married Gu Chuanjie" as the title of the big speculative news.