Curse of the Golden Flower

Curse of the Golden Flower 2006

mǎnchéngjìndàihuángjīnjiǎ

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

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4.63 Intermediate Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 65%

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rén my child ∼HSK 6
gāo jié noble and clean-living; lofty and unsullied ∼HSK 6
zhōng loyal and righteous; fealty; loyalty ∼HSK 6
lín xíng on leaving; on the point of departure ∼HSK 6
jiān áo to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment ∼HSK 6
shíchen two-hour period ∼HSK 6
dāo jiàn sword ∼HSK 6
jiàn nèi my wife (humble) ∼HSK 6
qīn mìng Imperial order or edict (old) ∼HSK 6
qíng personal considerations; love affair ∼HSK 6
shū zhuāng to dress and groom oneself ∼HSK 6
xié to avoid evil spirits ∼HSK 6
yǒu what is there ∼HSK 6
fèi diào to depose (a king) ∼HSK 6
shèng wáng sage ruler ∼HSK 6
móu fǎn to plot a rebellion; to conspire against the state ∼HSK 6
chē liè to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) ∼HSK 6
xiè zuì to apologize for an offense; to offer one's apology for a fault ∼HSK 6
Chóng yáng jié Double Ninth or Yang Festival; 9th day of 9th lunar month HSK 6
cháng nián all year round; for years on end; average year HSK 6
wáng hòu queen HSK 6
zào fǎn to rebel; to revolt HSK 6
in order; in succession HSK 6
yào hǎo to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement HSK 6
bìng (of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill; onset (of a medical condition) HSK 6
father and son HSK 6
yǒu shì to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter HSK 6
guò hòu after the event HSK 6
specially; intentionally HSK 6
cháng jiǔ (for a) long time HSK 6
tóng together HSK 6
fān foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort HSK 6
guì to kneel HSK 6
qián lái to come (formal); before; previously HSK 6
cóng never HSK 6
miè to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown HSK 6
tiān xià land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule HSK 6
wáng prince; son of a king HSK 6
gōng palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale HSK 6
zhǐ to stop; to prohibit; until; only HSK 6
jīng essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) HSK 6
race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) HSK 6
gōng zhǔ princess HSK 6
excessive HSK 6
zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female HSK 6
zuì guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin HSK 6
wèi why HSK 6
clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes HSK 6
fàn to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) HSK 6