The Story of the Jade Hairpin was a classic comedy from the Ming Dynasty. The author was Feng Menglong, a writer from the Ming Dynasty. The novel was about love, marriage, and wealth. It depicted the internal struggles and marital entanglements of a wealthy merchant family. Due to Feng Menglong's open-mindedness, his works incorporated some social reality and human thinking, which was considered one of the most important works in the history of Chinese comedy.