The manuscript will be displayed in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning province.
The manuscript, discovered in Tatirang, a village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is one of the earliest copies of the story.
It was found in 1986 by a herdsman, along with 27 other documents.
"The Romance of the West Chamber" is about a young scholar and the daughter of a minister, who fell in love without parental approval.
Bai Wenyu, curator of the Shenyang Palace Museum, told state-run Xinhua news agency that Tatirang was once a Yuan city on a busy traffic line.
"From the documents we can deduce that soldiers came from distant Shaanxi province. They read this book to kill time and quench their homesickness," Bai said.
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